In 1978, I found a pair of new-old-stock Parker Vacumatic fountain pens in a stall along Aurora Boulevard, triggering a lifelong passion. (Let’s give a shout out to the Grand Thrift House and the UVLA Store, both well worth the walk.) No pens or typewriters for me this time, but my eyes wandered, in one shop, to stacks of old papers and documents. This is a class of collecting generally called “ephemera” —comprising, by one definition, documents, letters, booklets, brochures, pamphlets, billheads, ledgers, scrapbooks, photographs, and maps. (My friend Frank Cimatu would later tweet from Baguio that it concerned a couple in Sta.

Source: Philippine Star March 24, 2019 18:13 UTC