Hmm, I know we are told that our collectables have a potential to increase in value, but somehow I think a defect is going to remain constant. It costs eBay nothing, and can cost a Seller a great deal. 
G'day Ken Nice to meet an ephemera enthusiast. I am sure you have someone eager to inherit (in the FAR future) your Australian pottery collection. Your Australian ephemera would of course have a value - particularly the promotional fans - but if you are more concerned with their survival, I would suggest you contact NOW your State Library or even the National Museum in Canberra. It is true that they have zillions of donated items that they have no room to display but it is the collections like yours, of disposable and fragile items, that will often fill a gap in the collections. Particularly if you have done some research on the background of the items. If they politely say "No thanks" perhaps there may be local museums who may be interested. I am not quite your age but have the same problems with our extensive collections - not that we have anything much that I feel would be of museum interest. However neither of our daughters have the slightest interest in any of our "stuff" - consequently every new acquisition now gets a numbered sticker - a database has categories like "Family piece (with provenance)", "very nice - you may want to keep" (with brief description and provenance), "worth sending to the auctions", "give to charity", "junk" (hope not too much in the last category
). Working our way through labelling the existing collections is proving to be a massive task.
Are you a member here? http://www.ephemerasociety.org.au/
