Through a social network that I belong to – ephemera.ning.com – I was made aware of “The Ephemera Album” managed by a fellow named Bernie Riches.
Bernie has spent a lifetime acquiring paper collectibles: postcards, cigarette cards, old adverts and packaging. 
As I looked through his website, and his second website, I found numerous informative articles and “shed loads” of images.
Of the two that caught my eye, this IBM advertisement from around 1949 particularly caught my attention because, as many of you know, I am a proud IBM retiree. Bernie points out that:
1949 ad for the International Business Machines Corporation. The computer was actually developed by the British at Bletchley Park during WW2 to break the code of the German Enigma ciphering machine . If it were not for these beginnings you would not be viewing this now!!
I suspect Herman Hollerith might disagree with Bernie on this one. After all, Hollerith’s inventions are widely considered to be the foundation of the modern information processing industry. And Hollerith’s company later became the core of IBM. But we won’t squabble about that now.
The other was this one from Lionel. 
It’s dated 1954 and caught my eye because one of the many things that I have been known to sell on eBay (through a different name) were vintage Lionels.
Take a moment to visit Bernie’s main site.. and his second site to get a better feel of just what Ephemera is (from a British perspective) and to take a look at some of his lovely images.
I’m Tom Murphy and thanks for helping me give Ephemera the encore it deserves.
Tom
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