THE BACK PAGE OF OUR JOURNAL FEATURES MANY SMALL EXAMPLES OF ONE TYPE OF EPHEMERA, for the next issue ESA member, journal designer and collector Mimmo Cozzolino would like to BORROW badges from the … [Read more...]
Record collecting 60s
SHOPPING BY POST? New? This recent donation, to the freebie table at the Ephemera Society's fairs, is a reminder that it was once exciting to shop using a printed catalogue rather than browsing in a … [Read more...]
Help wanted 1963 stereo pictures
STEREO PICTURES FROM 1963. ESA member Sue Ann Barber would like some help. Hello there! Hope everyone is well. Can you please ask everyone on the page if they have copies of TV Week magazine from … [Read more...]
Political posters – critical, poignant and collectible
Political posters – critical, poignant and collectible - ESA member Wendi Bradshaw A small, unexpected collection of political travel ephemera presented itself during a visit to Hong Kong, in late … [Read more...]
Back to school
EVEN IN 2020 ADVERTISING ENCOURAGES PARENTS TO BUY STATIONERY FOR THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR. We look back at exercise books. From 1953, from ESA member JY, this had the indispensable back cover with a … [Read more...]
‘I’m the boy that brings the news, so a Christmas box I won’t refuse.’
STATE LIBRARY BLOG ABOUT CHRISTMAS USING EPHEMERA FROM THE WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF ED J. Blog by Kylie at State Library of Victoria. Image courtesy of Ed J. Ephemera Society of … [Read more...]
25 December
RECENTLY COLLECTED AND REDISCOVERED CHRISTMAS EPHEMERA here we go There has been a resurgence of sorts in local stationery production. "Write to me" has a range including this play on words and … [Read more...]
Penpal? Stickyfriend?
Hello! I’m Thomas 39, from Heilbronn/Neckar Germany. Since 2001 I collected Bananastickers! Now I have 2500 pieces! So I need Trading partners! Are you interested? My address: Thomas Leuze Zum … [Read more...]
I’ll drink to that – whoops, spilt it
AT OUR LAST SHOW & TELL, I BOUGHT A FEW, AND THEN PICKED UP A BOX OF NO LONGER LOCAL BEER COASTERS. Like the long gone commercial blotter, they combine the ability to soak up excess fluid with … [Read more...]