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Upcoming Ephemera Train Events & More!
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All Whatnot Ephemera Raid Train Events listed here are hosted by SchmidtAuctions, PengwenBoss and FerrarisFinds.
We are pleased to announce the addition of Danielle Ferrari to our team.
Please follow all of us on the app for updates and event PRESHOWS!
Do you have an idea for a fun raid train? We are open to collaborations with other event organizers!


TheSuburbanBish's Notty Awards 2025!
We are honored to have won for Best Train Conductors 2024,
thank you to everyone that voted for us!
2nd Annual Notty Bish Awards!!!
Go to TheSuburbanBish.com for the 2025 voting link.

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$3 Thursday
Every Thursday from 10-3, sellers will bring you fabulous ephemera, books, photographs, postcards and more, all for $3 starts!!
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Message SchmidtAuctions if your interested.
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SchmidtAuctions kicks off every morning at 10am est and will build a flat rate box at 10:45am before raiding the next seller every week!!

Oddphemera 5! 12/6
Join us Dec 6th for another fun Oddphemera raid train. This will be our 5th one to date, you will see some strange and beautifully odd things. There will be a new seller every 30 minutes starting at 11:40am with the preshow!​
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Giveaways every 30 min!
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Check out the sellers catalogs. Use the pre-bid system with confidence.

Cardphemera 2! 12/9
Join us Tue Dec 9th for Cardphemera 2!
All things card, postcards, trade cards, bingo cards, Tobacco and tea cards, altered Cards, greeting cards and more!
There will be a new seller every 30 minutes starting at 11:40am with the preshow!​
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Giveaways every 30 min!
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Check out the sellers catalogs. Use the pre-bid system with confidence.
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Postcardpalooza! 12/27
Join us Sat/Sun Dec 27th for Postcardpalooza!
All postcard, two day event. Formerly our Postcard Alley train with a fresh title!
There will be a new seller every 60 minutes starting at 11:40am with the preshow on both days!​
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Giveaways every 60 min!
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Check out the sellers catalogs. Use the pre-bid system with confidence.
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This train runs twice a year in Dec and June.
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New Year's Eve Banger Boxes!
Join us Wed Dec 31st for New Year's Eve Banger Boxes!
All chunky box lots of all sizes. All the sellers will be bringing at least one for a $1 start bid.
There will be a new seller every 30 minutes starting at 10:40am with the preshow.​
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Giveaways every 30 min!
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Check out the sellers catalogs and bookmark now!

Muffphemera! Jan 3rd
Join us Sat Jan 3rd for Muffphemera! This is a variation on our En Fuego raid train so you can expect to see risque, pin-ups and other vintage adult ephemera, fashionable ladies with frocks,furs, and muffs and any tattoo related Ephemera, photos, books and magazines +
This is a 2 day event Fri 7-12am/Sat 7-12am est.​
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Giveaways every 30 min!
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Check out the sellers catalogs and bookmark now!

World's of Paper Collide!
Next One is 1/24
We are collaborating with sellers from the arts & handmade category to bring you the very first Worlds of Paper Collide raid train event!
Artisans will be bringing their handmade items showcasing ephemera.
Ephemera Seller will be bringing lots that are less than perfect for collectors but are perfect for artisans!​
Message Prinicorn or PengwenBoss if you'd like to join!​​​

Paperpalooza No. 12 February 14-15
Paperpalooza is our origin event, the very first ephemera raid train train on Whatnot. It was started by PopeyesPostcards, AtoZProvisions!
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SchmidtAuctions, PengwenBoss and FerrarisFinds are the current administers of Paperpalooza and Ephemerama.
These events run every second Sat of the month.
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Paperpalooza is 4 times a year in the months of Feb, May, Aug, and Nov.
Ephemerama is in Jan, March, April, June, July, Sept, Oct, and Dec.
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Resource Library Compiled by MillicentsMemories!
Melissa is a retired educator from Tennessee, she has been selling on Whatnot since 2022. She loves and collects all things vintage and antique. Catch her ephemera shows and estate sales shows where she shares with you her eclectic lifetime collections. She has graciously volunteered to be our official group librarian and has organized this list of references along with recommendations from the sellers of EPH talks as they relate to their subject matter.
Pin-Ups
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The Pin-up: a Modest History by Mark Gabor (1972)
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The Art of Pin-Up by Dian Hanson, Louis K. Meisel, and Sarahjane Blum

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The Gibson Girl and Her America: The Best Drawings of Charles Dana Gibson (2010, Dover Fine Art, History of Art)
Postcards
Contributed by MillicentsMemories
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Postcard Book Series by Schiffer Books by Mary L. Martin and Others
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Popeyes Postcards @Popeyes Postcards (Available at YouTube.com)​
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​"History of Postcards in the United States” (Available at Wikipedia.org)
Stereoview Cards & Viewers
Dating Photography Through Fashion
Contributed by HistorianEmporium
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Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail by Lucy Johnston
Victorian Trade Cards
Contributed by ThriftyDachshundMom
Contributed by Flipping_Roo
Exaggeration Postcards
Contributed by MightyAnnie
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Larger than Life The American Tall Tale Postcards (1905-1915) by Cynthia Elyce Rubin & Morgan Williams
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Publ. Abbeville Press Publ. of NY 1990
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