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The pre-eminent event on the Sydney antiques calendar, the annual AAADA fair, moved to a new venue this year – Royal Randwick Racecourse - and the dealers and buyers, it seems, enjoyed coming out for a trot.
Following the sale of the Denzil Ibbetson Napoleon collection, Art+Object in Auckland are offering a world class collection of art pottery from the period 1880 to 1920 on September 22.
Cavorting koalas lent a note of levity to an otherwise somewhat sombre Interior Decorator sale held by Mossgreen at Sydney’s Randwick Racecourse tearooms on August 30.
Bonhams has received a late tick for its cataloguing of two commodes (Lot 1226) in the Owston sale from the respected UK antique trades journal The Antique Trades Gazette.
Giles Moon claims it is one of the best collections of toys to ever been auctioned. The Leonard Joel head of collectables believes the quality and condition of the 340 lots is unsurpassed – one of the reasons (like the first part of the collection auctioned in May), it has attracted so much international interest.
The punters will be out at Sydney’s Royal Randwick racecourse for the big Mossgreen auctions on August 29 and 30 – and among the most closely watched wagers, will be on whether an antique secretaire chest can double its worth in a mere two months.
Bonhams Australia, fresh from the $13 million auction of the massive Owston collection of opulent furnishings and curios at Sydney’s Circular Quay in June, is not letting the grass grow under its feet.
Interesting Arts & Crafts furniture, English Staffordshire pottery, New Zealand tribal artifacts and craftsmanship -- even a vintage travel poster for Australia’s Lindeman Island -- are among the upcoming attractions at Auckland auctioneer Dunbar Sloane.
Taxidermied animals are once more a highlight (third auction in succession) of Philips Auctions sale from noon Sunday at 47 Glenferrie Road, Malvern.
Aside from the withdrawal of ten high profile lots, the sale of the Hoffman Estate Collection was positive experience, garnering a clearance rate of 100% by value and 93% by lot. The response from the market was highly attentive, with the sale fielding nearly 300 online bidders and over 100 participants in the Double Bay auction room.
The Labour Party announced today that it would not ban the purchase of artworks, antiques and collectables by Self Managed Superannuation Funds (SMSFs), as proposed by the Cooper Report into the Superannuation industry
Going under the hammer of antiquarian book dealer Peter Arnold, on August 2 at Ormond Hall in Mowbray Street Prahran will be a vital part of Australian history – the book collection of Harry Muir, from 1939 to June 1978 proprietor of Adelaide’s Beck Book Company that under his guidance became a South Australian institution.
The trade will tell you antique silver is mostly a quiet market these days, but it was a silver candlestick that set things alight at Cordy’s auction in Auckland on Tuesday, July 20.
A rare Charles Meere oil painting of Sydney Harbour, Lot A93, is one of the highlights of John Williams’s auction of antiques and collectibles on July 24 and 25.
In nearly two decades in his rooms in Wentworth Avenue, in Sydney, the auctioneer Bill Ellenden sold the contents of at least 100 shipping containers on behalf of one British exporter alone.
Former real estate agent Sid Broadway established Adam Galleries in Canterbury in 1956 – the same year as the Melbourne Olympics – when he realized the potential of selling fine furniture to many of Melbourne’s establishment. Now, after 54 years of trading, of which 50 years were in central Melbourne, the current owner Noël Stott has decided to retire.
Offered in an Old Master sale held by Bonhams in London on Wednesday July 7, the most valuable work in the Owston collection of antiques and art went unsold.
In 1925, the year after American Lillian Hoffman was born, The Society of Woman Geographers was formed to bring together ‘women explorers at heart’ whose work involved ‘extensive travel in the investigations of little-known or unique places, peoples or things in the world’. Ms Hoffman was not a member, but her adventurous travels evinced a similar ethos, and this was carried through to her collection, which reflects a passionate embrace of the material culture of places and peoples beyond the expected.
There are many reasons for selling a lifetime's collection, some beyond the owner's control. A more pleasant experience is expected for retired psychiatrist Dr Dinesh Parekh, who has spent more than 30 years accumulating an equally impressive collection of antique cameras.
A Tasmanian huon pine table shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London has brought a hefty price of $130,000 hammer ($146,250 with BP), while a very rare pair of cedar sideboards made for a Tasmanian house in the 1840s brought an even more impressive $144,000 ($162,000 with BP).