12 Sep
Christian McCann Auctions
Australian clock collection an auction mecca
Christian McCann’s forthcoming online auction of the late John and Rose Barnham’s collection is a mecca for clock collectors.
Known affectionately throughout Melbourne’s auction rooms as JBX, John Barnham was an avid clock and watch collector and over many years had assembled a comprehensive international collection of timepieces.
Of the 708 lots on offer at Christian McCann Auctions sale from 12pm Sunday September 12 at 7 Harper Street, Abbotsford, 20 per cent (or 139) are clocks or watches.
05 Sep
Christian McCann Auctions
Incredible jade pieces hit Australian auction scene
Some of the best jade pieces seen in Australia are among an immense collection of Oriental treasures to be auctioned from 12pm Sunday September 5 by Christian McCann Auctions at 7 Harper Street, Abbotsford.
This is a change in auction date necessitated by the latest Victorian COVID-19 lockdown scheduled to end midnight Thursday September 2.
05 Sep
Leski Auctions
Auction items reflect the beauty of their Australian home
Items coming to auction from the Foster Collection at the magnificent 1930s Mount Eliza mansion Dendron House are a true reflection of its beauty.
The home has been in the Foster family for six decades and each of the items being offered by Leski Auctions from 2pm Sunday September 5 is, in the words of the auction house, “new to the auction market”.
Each lot has been in the family for years with many arriving with Dr Bryan Foster and his family in the 1930s when they arrived from England.
29 Aug
Fine Arts Auctions
An Australian transport magnate remembered at auction
Items from the prestigious Achilles III motor super yacht, owned by former transport magnate the late Doug Kefford, will be an important part of three major deceased estates to be auctioned online from 11am Sunday August 29 by auctioneer Phil Caldwell.
Because of current Victorian COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, all viewing is online and items can be purchased either by bidding online, over the phone or as absentee bids.
22 Aug
Gibsons Auctions
An Australian socialite auction collection to remember
Ongoing Victorian COVID-19 lockdown restrictions have not prevented Melbourne-based Gibson’s Auctions from holding its Winter Auction Series which features the collection of leading Melbourne socialite the late Billie Tyrrell, whose former Naval lieutenant husband Harry founded National Can Industries.
Born in 1924 in Malvern, Billie spent most of her early life at Katanga, an elegant home designed by famous architect Harold Desbrowe-Annear for her prominent lawyer father Wesley Armstrong Ince.
14 Aug
Leski Auctions
Stunnning silver epergne shines brightly at Melbourne auction
Around the time that Captain James Cook was exploring the east coast of Australia, London silversmith Emick Romer was making a sterling silver epergne centrepiece stunning in its beauty and now considered extremely rare.
The son of Norwegian goldsmith Michelson Romer, Emick was apprenticed in 1749 and is believed to have left Norway sometime after 1751.
25 Jul
Christian McCann Auctions
Significant Australian Aboriginal gallery art heads to auction
A fifth Victorian COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in 16 months has not dented Melbourne’s Original and Authentic Aboriginal Art Gallery in Bourke Street enthusiasm for auctioning some of the best examples of Australian indigenous art in living memory.
Established in 1996 as a showcase for Aboriginal fine art from the Central Western Desert, Western Australia’s Kimberley region and the Northern Territory’s Arnhem Land, the gallery has asked Christian McCann Auctions to auction the 266 works online from 12pm Sunday July 25.
11 Jul
Gibsons Auctions
Hungarian refugee uses his engineering skills to amass a collection worthy of a special auction
When George Gyori arrived in 1957 in Australia as a 19-year-old Hungarian refugee courtesy of the Red Cross, he probably never believed that he would end up with a massive collection of Australian, maritime and exploration memorabilia – let alone clocks, watches and the tools with which to make them.
George trained as an engineer and in 1963 started his own general engineering business. However, he had always had a hankering for wristwatches that his Hungarian family could never afford.
05 Jul
Philips Auctions
Conrad Martens auction painting important part of Australian history
In the foreground is a clear and unmistakeable Aborigine dressed in white while a stockman can be seen in the distance riding away.
The is the Conrad Martens (1801-1878) watercolour painting titled Kilcoy, Moreton Bay, Australia (lot 370) that once resided in the Alan Bond Collection and was sold in 1992 by Christie’s to the current Queensland owner’s mother who recently died.
It is an impressive part of Philips Auctions timed online Fine and Decorative Arts sale at 47 Glenferrie Road, Malvern which closes from noon Monday July 5.
05 Jul
Philips Auctions
First time auction for stunning Singapore jewellery
They are stunning pieces of jewellery in anybody’s language – more so because they have never before been seen on the Australian market.
Their origin? – a prestigious jewellery store that operated during the 1980s and 1990s in Singapore and inherited by the vendor who now wishes to sell them, with Philips Auctions gemmologist Tanya Philips the lucky intermediary.
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