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Australiana Society Inc.
The Australiana Society is
an incorporated
association of collectors, dealers, auctioneers
and researchers devoted to collecting, studying and
preserving Australiana:
art,
decorative arts, antiques,
historic items, collectables, buildings and sites,
and portable heritage made in, or relating
to, Australia.
Membership is around
500.
We publish
Australiana,
a 40-page quarterly all-colour
magazine presenting
authoritative, topical, and practical articles on
Australian
art, design, furniture, ceramics, glass,
jewellery, metalwork, coins, notes, medals, crafts, ephemera,
architecture, history, historic houses, conservation, etc.
The contents and
index to Australiana are available on
this website. We seek contributions on Australiana subjects; click on
Australiana
magazine
for details.
We organise talks,
exhibition viewings, excursions, seminars and other
events
in Sydney and elsewhere. The Society is run entirely by
volunteers.
Subscribe to Australiana magazine
Members receive Australiana magazine, which is available only by
subscription. Many individual issues ($10 each) are available directly from us.
Household subscriptions cost $55,
institutions $60, students $25.
Download a
membership form or email
info@australiana.org for a sample
copy.
Media, advertising or general
enquiries
Email the Secretary,
Michael Lech.
Buying
or selling Australiana? Need a valuation?
The Australiana Society does not give valuations.
Please check our list of
dealers or
auctioneers to find one near you who may be able to help. A fee may
apply for this service. If you want a valuation for something
to buy or sell on the Internet, please do not waste their time.
Australiana
magazine
vol 30 no 2, May 2008
Michael Lech, Paving our
homes
Michael Lea, By
appointment John Devereux
Richard Westall, Recent
William Westall picture discoveries
Michel Reymond, John
Clarke Jr, Andrew Lenehan & James Templeton
John Houstone et al,
Louis Kitz
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Cover: Spanish-style 1920s tiles
Photograph courtesy Historic Houses Trust of NSW |
Back issues cost $10 posted, but not all
back issues are available. You can order by emailing us. Members can buy a
year's back issues (2001-2007) at the discount price of $20 for each year.
Australiana contributions welcome
We
encourage you to submit contributions on an aspect of
Australiana for our magazine. Contributions be well
illustrated and include text, pictures and captions
preferably in electronic form.
We
do not pay for contributions. You can download our
Style Guide
here.
Advertising in
Australiana
Please follow this link to
advertising
for rates and deadlines
Australiana contents 1986-2005 and index 1989-2007
You can download
the contents
and
index
to Australiana
free or you can order the
contents and index on floppy or CD by
email. It will take some time to download by dial-up
connection.
Australiana dealers
Looking for reliable antiques and art dealers who have Australiana
in stock? Click for our directory. Want to be listed ?
Email us.
Silver Society of
Australia
Click
for information about the
Silver Society of Australia.
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Julius Hogarth (1820-1879), Gold statuette
of an Aboriginal man throwing a boomerang. Sydney, 1854, gold, fossilised mammoth tooth, ht 11 cm. Private collection, photo Andrew Frolows
Danish-born silversmith Julius
Hogarth arrived in Sydney in 1852 to seek gold. He showed this
beautifully detailed gold statuette in Sydney in November 1854, and at
the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1855.
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