AS PROMISED HERE ARE SOME MORE LOVELY ART DECO ERA TRAVEL ITEMS FROM AJAY'S COLLECTION. This time we focus on hotel ephemera. Spectacular with a small colour range. The image is 'off centre' … [Read more...]
Art deco – ephemera of that era
HOLIDAY TIME IN THE 1920s & 30s; THANKS TO ESA MEMBER AJAY FOR ACCESS TO THESE ART DECO TRAVEL BROCHURES, LABELS AND MENUS. If not to Tasmania, where might one go? When one travels, one by … [Read more...]
Need one more card to complete the set
LOOKING FOR J. DIPROSE, FROM THE 1909, J.Diprose W.A. SNIDERS COLOURED SET. Steve (0407099652) is a member of the Ephemera Society and is hoping for some nationwide help. Steve has been collecting … [Read more...]
Bidding against friends – record sale
HERE IS ANOTHER EXTRACT ABOUT COLLECTING FROM A NOVEL. The scene about a record sale in Northern Ireland, comes from a police procedural by Adrian McKinty. McKinty is a St Kilda, Melbourne based … [Read more...]
From your friends in Canberra – blotters
WE HAVE LOOKED AT SOME COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING BLOTTERS. HERE ARE A SELECTION, AGAIN FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANDREW H., which show a style of communication that we may associate more with the early 21st … [Read more...]
Hum along with ephemera
MUSIC IS EVOCATIVE OF 3 OF THE 5 SENSES; ears flapping, vocal cords activated, fingers strumming, toe tapping, clapping, watching the musical gifts of orchestra members on stage, reading the music and … [Read more...]
The business of diaries
WHO DOESN'T LOVE THE FRIVOLOUS OR INDULGENT 'FANTASY' DIARY, THAT MAKES EVERY DAY A WALK IN THE PARK, BEAUTIFUL COUNTRYSIDE OR A LAUGH? THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A BUSINESS SIDE TO DIARIES AND HERE … [Read more...]
Mopping up children’s spills – with blotters
PUDDLES, SPLASHES, BLOODY KNEES, SPLUTTER. Did the parent of the 1950s think about blotting up domestic disasters at work? Paddle Brand shoes are first advertised in the early 1920s and … [Read more...]
Are you free on 25 February 1939?
ESA MEMBER RICHARD FELIX COLLECTS OLD AND CURRENT DIARIES. Richard has more than 600 diaries including one for 1939 and 2015. There is nothing written in his 1939 diary (he prefers the diaries not to … [Read more...]