A time when all resources were precious

A two-day vintage advertising and printed ephemera sale will stir memories from a time when less was thrown away and before plastic became ubiquitous

A set of five graduated pewter measures by Austin of Cork at Sheppards.(€200-€300).

MEMORIES of a pre-digital age, a time when devices such as a phone had just one function, will be stirred by a two-day sale of vintage advertising and printed ephemera at Sheppards in Durrow next Tuesday and Wednesday (April 12 and 13).

The collection of more than 600 lots from a world when less was thrown away and before plastic became ubiquitous, on view from today in Durrow, is instructive too.