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Introduction
Welcome to the specialist Society for the collectors of Printed Railway Matter.
We are a group of like minded individuals who have a passion for the collection and preservation of all printed railway material. Our organisation is managed by a small committee who oversee the production of newsletters, arrange meetings, organise auctions and promote membership among other tasks as well. We do try to liven up our meetings to ensure a lively, interesting and inclusive meeting of minds by inviting speakers, holding swap meets (very popular source of new material) and visiting interesting venues.
While our title may suggest that we are interested in Railway Prints, this is NOT the case, if you are looking for or are interested in Railway Prints we would refer you to www.railart.co.uk which is more about railway art and prints than we can tell you about.
Many of the items that our members collect are ephemera, a definition of which is shown below courtesy of the Oxford University’s Bodleian Library. However, some of the items collected are beautiful works of high art such as art nouveau and the colourful art work of the railway publicity machine of the past.
We do not specialise in items such as tickets or philately as these items have their own organisation such as the Railway Philately Society or the Transport Ticket Society, details of which can be found on our FAQ links page.
We do however have co-ordinators who specialise either in a particular railway company or type of item printed such as luggage labels. Each co-ordinator has detailed knowledge on the respective company and of what they printed. They are responsible for compiling information on the company or type of printed item – if you are interested in becoming a co-ordinator please let the Society know so that we can assist you. Please write to:
info@railwayprintsociety.org.uk.
Printed Ephemera The term Printed Ephemera, most often in the form: "the ephemera of printing." It entered the public consciousness principally through John Lewis’s seminal work Printed Ephemera. The Changing Uses of Types and Letterforms in English and American Printing. Ipswich, W.S. Cowell, 1962, reprinted Woodbridge, Antique Collectors’ Club, 1990.
Johnson defined printed ephemera as:
"Everything which would ordinarily go into the waste paper basket after use, everything printed which is not actually a book …"
Printed ephemera, uninterpreted documentation of the past, has gained academic respectability as primary source material for social, printing, local, industrial and family historians.
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