Printed cardboard folder containing the program for the Ned Kelly Weekend. Enrolment brochure. Folder also contains the typed report by Sergeant Keith Holden (Kelly - The Criminal) with regards to the weekendkeith holden, kelly gang, edward kelly, ned kelly

John Gartner was a fine printer and publisher, an author, a noted philatelist, and also collector of Australian banknotes and coins. He was born on 16 July 1914 and was largely self-educated, leaving school at fourteen for work following the death of his father. Gartner developed a strong interest in the history of typography and printing and was apprenticed at the Advocate where his father had been a linotype operator. Aged 17, Gartner bought a hand press and some fonts of type, and in 1937 acquired a platen press from which he set and printed his private press books, published under the imprint of The Hawthorn Press. Gartner had a strong collection of Australian bookplates. He also looked at the work of artists overseas and commissioned personal plates. He subsequently built an international collection with preference for artists who printed from wood. His initial searches were in Belgium and Holland.(http://www3.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/issue/latrobe-84/t1-g-t7.html) The title is printed on a rectangular umber background. Below the title is an oval shape within which is an anchor and two bunches of flowers. The letters H and P are on either side of the anchor. Below the oval shape are the letters MCMLXXX1.bookplate, printmaking, australian bookplate design award, keith

After a quiet period, interest in bookplates in Australia began to increase in the early 1970s, Entrepreneurial art and book collectors such as Edwin Jewell and others commissioned multiple Bookplate designs from a range of well known fine artists. At a 1997 meeting in Melbourne of the Ephemera Society of Australia Edwin Jewell and others announced the formation of the Australian Bookplate Society. The society was instrumental in promoting the art of the bookplate through establishment of the Australian Bookplate Design competition. A pelican is depicted perched amongst foliage0/100 pencil signature bottom right cornerprintmaking, bookplate, australian bookplate design award, keith

This Postcard came for the Estate of Keith McIlwraith on 20th July 1983.Mr. Robertson at the Shell House, Nobbies Road, Phillip Island.local history, documents, postcards, early postcards, postcard, shell house, phillip island