2018 WAS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AUSTRALIAN CARTOPHILIC SOCIETY INC. Bob Ferris and Graeme Dickinson have put together a 76 page homage to all that the Society has achieved. The Anniversary … [Read more...]
Travelling for ephemera – Ephemera dreaming
NOT TRAVEL EPHEMERA, BUT RATHER SPENDING ON TALKING ABOUT EPHEMERA. If you could book a flight to a hub of ephemeral activity, where would you go? What about Old Greenwich, Connecticut on 14-17 … [Read more...]
Naughty banks?
THE FINDINGS & RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE BANKING ROYAL COMMISSION WERE MADE PUBLIC AT 4.10 PM TODAY, 54 FEBRUARY 2019. Here are some lovable or benign images of banking ephemera past. What were the … [Read more...]
Shopping in Ballaarat
TALKING SHOP: BALLARAT IN BUSINESS AND CITY LIFE, historic photographs, advertisements and ephemera, exploring the shops and businesses of Ballarat’s past, and contemporary photographs from The … [Read more...]
Show & tell
NEXT FRIDAY, 14 FEBRUARY, @6 PM, we will be starting the collecting year in Melbourne with a Show & Tell gathering. Why might you come? Do you like looking at and talking about collecting? Do … [Read more...]
Still thinking about Australia Day
Extract from the Wangaratta chronicle 31 July 1915: Yesterday was celebrated as Australia Day. In Wangaratta a number of ladies were busy selling flags, buttons, badges, and other mementoes and … [Read more...]
Australia Day – background
Geoffrey Potter Local History Librarian Central Coast Libraries advises Australia Day began as a recruitment drive in WWI in the wake of the Anzac landing at Gallipoli. Towns all over Australia … [Read more...]
Book fair this weekend 3-4 November 2018
THIS WEEKEND, 3MBS has a huge book sale at the Abootsford covent. The highly popular 3MBS Music & Book Fair is back! Over the weekend of 3-4 November, the Community Room at the Abbotsford … [Read more...]
Find it at the fair
OUR COLLECTABLES & EPHEMERA FAIR IS ON SUNDAY 19 MAY 2019, starting at 8.30 for members and 9.15 for the general public. Some of the stallholders, there are more than 30, have given us a peek … [Read more...]