Palm Beach Gardens, FL – January 28, 2009 -
Encore-Ephemera (www.encore-ephemera.com), a leading source for vintage advertising and transitory written and printed matter announced today that it has joined the Antiques, Vintage & Collectibles Online Sellers Association (AVCOSA). We look forward to sharing ideas, information and resources relative to the Ephemera marketplace with other Association members.
Encore-Ephemera believes there is a strong need for a Trade Association specifically designed around online selling. AVCOSA is well positioned to represent the interests of those sellers and to promote professionalism in the online marketplace in general through education, information and technology.
At Encore-Ephemera we have collected literally thousands of pieces of printed ephemera and will be offering them both in our own online store and through our bonanzle.com booth. We are dedicated to providing our collection in a manner that protects, preserves, educates, and supports those who seek these pieces of paper ephemera.
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Today I ran across a website that has lots of photos of the books that were used during the Second World War (WWII) to ration everything from sugar to meat to rice and even gasoline and nylon stockings. Regardless of your finances, you were only allowed to buy small amounts and on a specific time line. Rationing was the only way to be sure everyone got their fair share. In addition to the ration books the government also issued ration coins (or tokens) that allowed retailers to give change back for food bought with ration stamps.
collection they have named “Ames Iowa Remembers World War II”, we are able to look at a large number of not only Ration Books and Ration Coins but also stickers, magazine articles, stamps, registration forms, War Bonds and War Savings Stamps.
Wally, for those of you who don’t know him, is a licensed Massachsetts auctioneer who’s been building a brand online for quite a while now. If you Google AuctionWally, you’ll see what I mean… or you can visit 
Today I was again wandering the net and ran across the Flickr “Old Railway Posters” group. It’s a public group and currently has some 462 posters in the Group Pool. The group has 31 members and you need to be a member to post new items.. but not to peruse.
was written by Maria Langer and Miraz Jordan and published by Peachpit Press.
While I am off topic, let me also comment on WordPress themes. I have become a real fan of 
Brian has recently opened 
Today I want to talk about two blog articles on their site – entitled as above. Seems North Carolina has taken on a new Governor and the author of the blog decided to share a few of his/her favorite pieces of gubernatorial campaign ephemera.
I ran into Pearl from a comment she made on one of my blog posts. She describes herself as “an ancient soul that finds unique pleasures in this life… family & friends are my best treasures. As the silent songs of shabby pieces of the past sing out to me… I find myself magically drawn into their enchanting existance…”
And so far, he seems to be meeting his objectives. Here’s one that caught my eye for example. It’s a magazine ad showing the 5 Dionne quintuplets. They were born in 1934 and were the first known set of quints to survive infancy and are still the only known female identical set on record.
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