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Read more about the article Putting a label on it: ephemera from all over

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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Read more about the article Three’s a crowd in a matchbox

Three’s a crowd in a matchbox

What is it with matches and the number three? Always a sucker for brightly coloured bits of paper, I've managed to accumulate a small collection of matchbox labels. I like these odd little works of art that flourished for years in a seemingly unlikely niche. They are like postage stamps, I suppose, in that they had strictly utilitarian beginnings but soon became a field for fertile design imaginations. I'm often baffled as to why certain designs were chosen to decorate the outsides of matchboxes, and some are nothing short of weird. Threes. Three of them. But…

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