'Collecting maps: an uncharted journey' presented by Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy AM. Robert has been an avid map collector for over 40 years, from $20 tourist maps to rare charts of … [Read more...]
Busy Bees in Heidelberg
Unique 19th Century signature quilt now on display Sundays 2pm-5pm until end of November. This large, rare quilt with distinctive lace insertions was made by a local group to help raise funds in the … [Read more...]
Valuation Day – Hawthorn Vic.
VALUATION DAY, Sunday August 25, 2019, 1-4pm. The Boroondara Historical Societies present a valuation day: Please check your cupboards and bring along a piece or two to be valued. Richard … [Read more...]
Vintage cookery booklets
FREE TALK AT 11 AM ON 19 MAY 2019, CAMBERWELL LIBRARY MEETING ROOMS, hear and see part of a wonderful collection about food donated to the State Library of Victoria. Our speaker is Richard Overell … [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...]
Coasting to collecting
WE ALL HAVE OUR AREAS OF INTEREST IN COLLECTING. And we can all be led astray. How divine are this selection of Air-India coaster? I bought these not at the fair but at a swap meet held by the ESA … [Read more...]
Newsletter #7
LOOK IN YOUR LETTERBOXES THIS WEEK, as all members will be receiving the latest newsletter featuring profiles of the speakers at the symposium on Saturday 4 August. This includes Colin Silcock who … [Read more...]