ESA MEMBER Steve F was taken out of school to attend each day of the Centenary Test with his mother. She conscientiously collected two of everything possible each day at the test. This included … [Read more...]
DGH – and the misplaced footballer
LOVED AND LOST OR SHOULD THAT BE, LOVED AND MISPLACED Long time ESA member DGH remembers his first piece of ephemera. Earliest treasured (albeit untraced) item: A signed photograph of Roy Wright, … [Read more...]
Andrew H
Andrew H TELLS US ABOUT HIS CONVERSION TO PAPER - TO EPHEMERA I started with Vida Goldstein. The collecting bug bit me quite early in life. By the age of 15, having progressed through stamps … [Read more...]
Mandy B
SERIES, I HOPE, ON 'MY FIRST PIECE OF EPHEMERA', this came up the other day in a pre-isolation discussion with ESA members. The first items we talked about didn't necessarily turn out to be a focus of … [Read more...]
Dating the government printer
ALWAYS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO DATE THE UNDATED. This brochure about influenza is undated. A close read only tells us that it is post the 'Russian influenza' pandemic of 1889-90 which arrived … [Read more...]
Nylex 2553
CAN ANYONE HELP WITH MORE INFORMATION about this Nylex toy? It is numbered 2553. According to an entry on the Museums Victoria site Nylex originally manufactured toys as Playmate Toys, Moulded … [Read more...]
Stamping out the pandemic again
WHAT WILL BE THE BEST EPHEMERAL RECORDS OF COVID 19? Looking back might assist. A certificate from 1919, it reads Thelma.. volunteered and worked as a member of the Staff Specially organised by … [Read more...]
Season’s greetings
SEASONAL HUNTING AND GATHERING IN YOUR OWN HOME during the flu season, that is. ESA member David H reports on a 'find' from the back of his first aid cabinet. Season's greetings, flu season that … [Read more...]
kids read the paper
MORE EPHEMERA OF SCHOOL DAYS - A University of Melbourne guide to sources on Victorian education advises that: From the 1872 Education Act until 1970 - the Victorian Education primary curriculum … [Read more...]