Ephemera .

1. Something of no lasting significance. 

2. Ephemera plural : paper items (such as posters, broadsides, and tickets) that were originally meant to be discarded after use but have since become collectibles.

 Over the years I have acquired a number of large collections, and most included a significant amount of Ephemera. Important collections include those of John Skinner, Verne Patterson, Schilling, and  locally terms Adrian Kuys. I have had so much that I also regarded it as  things of no lasting significance. However time has proved me wrong, and many items have proved significant in showing connections between people and events. I look back now and realize that items I have sold  were more significant and should have been properly documented before sale.

I remember receiving the collection of John Skinner  some time before the first National Show. John over many years had set about collecting for the  Wisconsin Department of  Agriculture, every piece of newspaper or magazine or publication mentioning poultry.  I packed up a few hundred pages of pictures covers and placed them in bags to sell at the national show for 1.00 or 2.00 each. I couldnt believe the bun fight and the queue, all impatient to get some. I must admit to thinking it a bit weird. 20 years on I understand it, but have still made mistakes, selling recently newspapers and magazines and realizing later I had not  documented  them properly. At the same time I am delighted to see the good use and right place in their new homes. 

So I decided that I better make at least a photo list of the remaining items before that also will be dispersed.  Its a picture list with the brief  descriptions but in a folder with a general title. I am sure some are less that ideally categorised. There are many items  larger than just single sheets.

Items in date order.  1800-1930  

                              1931-1912

                              1912-1931

                               1931-1985

                              1985-2023

Advertising,

APA

Booklets

Skinner Clippings

Schilling

Misc

Fancier

Industry

Mating Lists

Educational and science 

South Australia

Victoria

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