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...]
A delightful afternoon
The Ephemera Society of Australia Inc. presents A delightful afternoon about collecting for collectors Saturday 4 August 2018 1.00 pm to 5.00 pm at the Webster Room, rear of the Camberwell … [Read more...]
Journal #3
IT HAS BEEN POSTED OUT TO MEMBERS. There are 36 page journal crammed full of stories about late 19th century/early 20th century decorative biscuit tins, marriage equality, take-away coffee cups, how … [Read more...]
START SAVING
SUNDAY 23 September AT THE NEW TIME OF 9.15 (PUBLIC) 8.30 (MEMBERS), THE NEXT EPHEMERA FAIR, yes start saving and practice getting up earlier on Sundays. There is every indication that this will be … [Read more...]