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Putting a label on it: ephemera from all over

Pretty pieces of paper. I like them. So I've made a collection of them, gathered from all sorts of places. I like the artistry of them. Sometimes I see some humour or something peculiar in them that makes me collect them and put them in albums, occasionally to look at. Here's a selection of some of my paper ephemera. Beer labels - all Australian. Some older iterations of products that are still around, and some others not so much. My Dad was a KB drinker, in longnecks and later in those gold cans. Back in the…

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A 1951 calendar used as a bookmark

Things found in old books

When you have as many old books as I do, or if you rummage among as many old bookshops as I do, you inevitably find many things pressed between pages. Usually you find items that people have used as makeshift bookmarks, but sometimes you discover things that people just wanted pressed flat. Occasionally you might happen on something that somebody probably wanted hidden. One way or another I've ended up with a couple of albums full of interesting bits and pieces of ephemera that have fallen out of old books. Some I've chosen to leave with…

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