IF YOU LOVE LOVE AND COLLECTING, COME TO THE NEXT SHOW & TELL, FRIDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2024, 6-8PM, LIGHT SUPPER PROVIDED. All members and other collectors invited. The evening will proceed with … [Read more...]
Next fair 28 April 2024 – definitely on
Show + tell – ask about your ephemera
AT OUR LAST MEETING ON FRIDAY 19 JANUARY 2024, WE WENT AROUND THE TABLE showing and telling about recent finds, ephemera about work and travel, and with questions about items. Newish member Marilyn … [Read more...]
Visiting the State Library of Queensland
NOT ONLY DOES THIS LIBRARY HAVE INTERESTING EXHIBITIONS FOR THE EPHEMERA COLLECTOR, but also these bookmarks showing selections from the SLQ's collections, collected in January 2024, standard bookmark … [Read more...]
Past issues of the Ephemera Journal available (but not many)
WE HAVE A SMALL SUPPLY OF BACK ISSUES OF THE EPHEMERA JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA. If you are interested please use the kookaburra form - and tick the box for the one you want. No. 5 Ida … [Read more...]
Cooking with gas? No
Cooking with gas? No. Long before our current urge to go all electric for climate change reasons, the State Electricity Commission had a challenge to interest us in electric rather than the modern gas … [Read more...]
Dating during WW1
THE KOOKABURRA SEEMS TO HAVE BECOME MORE POPULAR IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY. Were there federation kookaburras? Or did their "laugh at anything attitude" fit better with courage in the face of … [Read more...]
Kookaburra issue – buy a copy
WELCOME TO THIS WONDERFUL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL, CELEBRATING THE LAUGHING JACK AND TWO DIFFERENT COLLECTIONS. Non members can buy a copy for $15 + $5 postage. Members can buy an extra copy for … [Read more...]
The Myer music bowl
THE SIDNEY MYER MUSIC BOWL IS THE SITE OF LOTS OF GREAT MUSICAL EXPERIENCES. Perhaps the best known is Carols by Candlelight; equally is important is the long running Sidney Myer Free Concerts held in … [Read more...]