Books & Paper - Everything Ephemera

Avid collectors will pay high prices for quality vintage American art prints. Learn the names to look for while you're hitting the garage sales and thrift shops in your area!

Got a stack of old books laying around the house? Discover a book filled with pricing information to help you sort them out. You'll learn all about first editions, too.

Sometimes favorite collections can be simple and inexpensive. Read about your guide's collection of holiday themed books that recently expanded to include a beautiful vintage title.

An informative profile featuring Ellen Clapsaddle and her work.

Do you know what ephemera means? Learn more about these interesting collectibles.

What does foxing mean in the antiques world? Learn about this condition issue that affects paper collectibles

Visit the antique Halloween postcard image gallery. Use them for clip art or just view them for fun!

What can you learn about history from an old magazine? Plenty, when it's an issue of Ladies Home Journal from 1904. See how it pertains to womens history, advertising history, and publishing history.

Most people have at least one or two old magazines laying around, but are the worth anything? Learn more about what's collectible, and what's not, in the world of old periodicals.

Which newspapers should you save? Will they increase in value? And how do you preserve them?

A gallery of vintage patriotic postcards for learning and fun. Use them as clip art too!

Old holiday greeting postcards from the early 1900s have been popular with collectors for decades. Their affordability (in most instances) and relatively good condition for being more than 100 years old keep collectors coming back for more.

Vintage sheet music can be an affordable collectible. There are exceptions to the rule, however. Find out which old sheet music is worth the most to collectors.

Shipping ephemera and photographs can be accomplished safely and easily following these simple steps.

A Valentine history lesson and information on collectible cards.

An excellent place to start researching and valuing the old books on your shelf. Enter the title or author and find current list prices for thousands of old books.

Chirstmas and New Year paper greetings are shown here, including some unexpected examples.

If traditional valentine sentiments aren't your cup of tea, take a look at these funny valentines of yesteryear.

Collecting maps with topographical mistakes can be an interesting pastime. Learn more through this "Antiques Roadshow" feature.

Fruit and vegetable crate labels from yesteryear turn up in some interesting places. Find out about these fun collectibles with an "Antiques Roadshow" feature.

View a collection of Easter greetings and springtime scrap art.

An organization formed encourage the preservation and study of paper ephemera, to further the special interests of ephemerists and to serve as a link among collectors, dealers, and scholars.

Visit Fairyland to view ephemera depicting charming fairies on this enchanting site.

Tokens of love were never sweeter. Take a look at a number of lace-paper valentines to get you in the mood for love.

Vintage roadmaps offer collectors nostalgia at an affordable price. Read all about them in this "Antiques Roadshow" feature.

Read about these pretty Victorian chromolithographed cards given to children to celebrate their accomplishments.

View several year-round greetings in the form of the Victorian calendar.

Greetings, scrap art and other ephemera are combined to represent a glorious Victorian Christmas.

From the world's first Christmas card to the popular postcards of Rafael Tuck and Sons, discover the manufacturers of these woderful collectibles.

A beautiful page dedicated to the Victorian scrap album.

Learn about collecting public information posters produced in mass during World War I with this "Antiques Roadshow" feature.

Victorian trade cards, the counterpart to the modern business card, feature interesting products and themes highly sought by avid collectors. Learn more about this type of ephemera, including how much they might be worth.