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President’s update

What an outstanding success the 2024
national tour of Victoria was!
Victorian branch chair Robert Stevens
and his team did an absolutely fantastic
job in every regard. From venue selection,
menu selection, to negotiating the best
possible deal with all providers, nothing
more could possibly have been wis...

Victorian Tour 2025 – Melbourne and beyond

The Australiana Society’s first national
tour of Victoria from 20 to 24 March
was a huge success. The tour got off to
an unusual start at Gary and Genevieve
Morgan’s Gallery, with our host Gary
Morgan addressing us on a large screen
from his hospital bed...

The face in the footstool: James Barclay’s rare clocks

Recycling ain’t what it used to be. Launceston clock and watch experts Graham and Sallie Mulligan came across a tapestry
footstool which their sharp eyes recognised as comprising re-used parts of an old clock. Further investigation revealed that the
parts came from a sign...

W.J. Williams and his paintings

In 2018, Dr Andrew Montana restored William Joseph Williams (1851–1918) as the artist responsible for the late 19th-century painted decoration in South Australia at Ayers House, the Museum of Economic Botany, Rigby’s bookshop, Trew’s South Australian Club Hotel and probably Para Para.1 Now the artist’s ...

Australia's first art potters

Brothers Graham and William Ferry both trained as potters in Yorkshire, emigrated to Victoria and set up their own potteries in Melbourne’s Brunswick in the last two decades of the 19th century. Noted for their sculptural domestic wares and colourful majolica wares, here Greg Hill makes the case for recognisi...

Gold Rush jewellers of Melbourne and Dunedin: Wagner & Woollett, Lamborn & Wagner and Wollett and Hewitt

Jewellers William Lamborn, Leopold Wagner and Samuel Woollett all arrived at Melbourne in the first few years after the discovery of gold in Victoria in 1851. Recent research has uncovered new information on these jewellers and their firms – Wagner & Woollett, Lamborn & Wagner and Woollett & Hewitt. The new i...

Jewellery is for giving

Collectors and Australiana Society members Graham and Elizabeth Cocks will be remembered by a collection of Arts and Crafts jewellery, generously given by their daughters to the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Powerhouse Museum.

Desirable Disabled Potters On

Reflections on a Collection - Majorie Yvonne Graham (1924-1994)

Obituary: Marjorie Graham (1924-1994)

Ostentation and the Ostrich

Orpheus Arfaras: A Talented Immigrant Australian

Matches Strike a Light in Australia

Book review: Kenneth Cavill, Graham Cocks and Jack Grace, ‘Australian Jewellers, Gold & Silversmiths - makers & Marks’, C.G.C Gold Pty Ltd, 1992

Roller Skating in Australia

Book review: Kenneth Cavill, Graham Cocks and Jack Grace, 'Australian Jewellers, Gold and Silversmiths - makers and Marks’, C.G.C Gold Pty Ltd, 1992

Modern Ceramic Products

Book review: Kenneth Cavill, Graham Cocks and Jack Grace, 'Australian Jewellers, Gold and Silversmiths - makers and Marks’, C.G.C Gold Pty Ltd, 1992

The Horn of Plenty - Talking Machine to Gramaphone in Australia

‘Don't Delay - Buy a Bottle Today’. Patent Medicines in Australia

F. W. Nissen Queensland Manufacturing Jeweller and Watchmaker

W. F. Cole, Manufacturing Jeweller

Queensland Manufacturing and Working Jewellers - 1850-1900

Concentration on Concrete

Book review: Majorie Graham, ‘Australian Glass of the 19th and Early 20th Century’, David Ell Press 1981

Australian Pottery