…. Any printed or hand written item normally discarded after its intended use……Usually used in reference to paper collectibles…… ephemera is ‘developed for very short life or duration’….. When applying this term to collectibles, it comes to mean items that were only meant to be around for a short while, but somehow have survived long past their useful life….. Printed materials never intended to stand the test of time. ….. something transitory; lasting a day …… an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form …… paper ephemera would be newspapers, postcards, posters…
Some prints were made in 300, some i 230.000 copies….
