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BOOKMARKS ARE AN INTRIGUING AND HIGHLY COLLECTABLE TYPE OF EPHEMERA. PROVIDED YOU CAN SET SOME LIMITS.  The next issue, #7 of the Ephemera Journal of Australia looks at a contemporary collection. The collector, ESA member Wendi Bradshaw sets the scene with a short history of the bookmark and then the story behind items in her own collection. #7 will be out in early 2021.

Others have enjoyed talking or writing about bookmarks – a favourite although not apt for Wendi’s article is:

..When a bookmark tumbles out of an old book pristine and unwrinkled, it is like a gasp of breath from another century..from Borchert, Don – Free For All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library.

It comes from the interesting website, The International Friends of Bookmarks – and you can use it to identify collectors in countries including Australia. Browsing I came across this terrific website of a vast private collection called Le Musée du Marque-Page. 

Back issue looked at older bookmarks

The Ephemera Society looked at some lovely old Australian bookmarks in our Ephemera Newsletter + What’s on #6, December 2017. It is an eight page full colour newsletter also featuring Father Christmas ephemera; some local jazz club ephemera and the celebration of Australia Day in July. If you would like a copy the cost is $6.50 including ordinary postage. There are just a few copies left. Express your interest by putting a comment in the comments’ box.

6 Comments.

  • Emma-Clare Bussell
    30 November 2020 11:53 am

    Hi there
    Yes please I would love to get ‘ The Ephemera Society looked at some lovely old Australian bookmarks in our Ephemera Newsletter + What’s on #6, December 2017. ‘
    Let me know how to send the $6.50
    Kind regards
    Emma-Clare

  • mbede
    30 November 2020 11:57 am

    Thanks I will directly email you

  • David Crowe
    9 March 2021 5:24 pm

    Hello,

    As a colllector of Antique Bookmarks for almost 30 years I would like a copy of Ephemera Journal of Australia #17 of early this year.
    Could you advise me of the cost + mailing, please?

    Regards,
    David Crowe
    Sydney
    Australia

  • mbede
    10 March 2021 12:56 pm

    Hi David
    Issue #7 is still in the pipeline – just met with the designer this morning. I would say it is 3-4 weeks away.

    If you pay $18 for journal including postage by direct deposit to the Ephemera Society of Australia Inc, NAB: BSB 083 953, Account 6213 67120. Put Crowe and journal in the info section.

    Send me your address and I will post out a nice earlier bookmark newsletter we did earlier. I have copied in Edwin our treasurer who will see the payment. He collects among other things bookmarks!

    Cheers Mandy Bede

  • avid Crowe
    16 March 2021 4:45 pm

    May I thank you, Mandy, for your contribution to the Society in the production of our Journal.
    I will pay the $18 into the a/c for the journal.
    I have joined the society.

    My mailing address is –
    David Crowe

    Castle Hill NSW 2154

  • mbede
    17 March 2021 10:02 am

    You don’t need to pay the $18 then