Past Sales

This page is under construction, it is being created to mark the first 50 years of J. B. Hawkins Antiques in Australia. I will be putting up a documented and provenanced list of 100 important items that I have sold into Public and Private collections around the world. Further items will be added regularly so please visit again.

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Art
Australian Silver
Australiana
Clocks and Watches
English & European Silver
Faberge
Furniture
Gold Boxes
Jewellery
Various

An Aeypornis Egg

An important Egyptian statue of Isis, dedicated to the Royal acquaintance of Ptahirdis

A Pair of Anglo – Indian Griffin Ivory Candlesticks

Ivory Chandelier designed by Franz Seitz

Nellie the Elephant

The Cullinan Diamond

The Historic Blackwood Speakers Chair for the First Federal Parliament

An 18th century crescent-shaped breastplate known as ‘Taumi’ from the Tahiti Islands

A European cast brass Aboriginal Gorget

The Banks Cabinets from the Natural History Museum, London

The Tobias Furneaux Patu, collected during Cook’s second voyage, now in the Australian National Maritime Museum Sydney

The Tenders Estimates and Contracts for the First Fleet from England to Australia in 1788

A Gold Nugget on Rosso Antico Stand

The Foy Gold Cup

The 1871 Sydney Gold Cup by Christian Ludwig Quist

The Hopetoun Pilgrim Bottles

The Exhibition Gold Mounted 1862 Inkwell retailed by Flavelle Brothers but made by Julius Hogarth

The Gold Statuette of Ricketty Dick

The Steiner 1881 Adelaide Hunt Club Gold Cup & The Fischer 1890 Geelong Gold Cup

The 1869 Sydney Gold Cup by Christian Ludwig Quist

The Geelong 1874 Gold Cup by Edward Fischer

The Dunedin Suite made by Julius Schomburgk retailed by Wendt

The Sandeman Cup by Hogarth and Erichsen in Gold and Silver

Part of the Packer Collection of English Regency Banquet Silver

The Rutland Gold Salver by Paul Storr, London 1801

The Lonsdale Coolers on their original stands by Benjamin Smith and Digby Scott, London 1807

The Russian Imperial Ascot Trophy by Hunt and Roskell, London 1846

The Service for the Grand Duke Michael Pavlovitch by Biennais and Cahier a gift from his brother the Czar

An inkwell commissioned by the redoubtable mother of Napoleon and made by J. B. C. Odiot Paris 1812.

The Demidoff Service by Odiot

The Beckford Ewer and Basin

The George III Royal Dinner Service by Robert Auguste

The Burdett Coutts and Duke of Cumberland wine coolers on stands by Philip Rundell London 1820

The Bacchus and Ariadne Shields

The Duke of Northumberland’s Shield of Achilles by Philip Rundell 1823

One of a pair of Cavendish soup tureens on stands by Paul Storr, London 1807

Royal the Duke of York, pair of bread baskets Benjamin Smith and Digby Scott, London 1804

A Service by Fogelberg and Gilbert of two jugs and six goblets, London 1780

The Kildare/Leinster Service by George Wickes, London 1745

The Hopetoun Wine Fountain and Cistern by William Lukin, London 1707

The Duchess of Norfolk’s Toilet Service by Benjamin Pyne, London 1708

A Collection of Five Hump Back Carriage Clocks by James Ferguson Cole, Thomas Cole and Jump

The Baugrand Countess of Dudley Clock

Breguet Grande Sonnerie Perpetual Calendar Pendule de Voyage

The Marcus Purman portable timekeeper, dated 1598

The year going Royal Equation Regulator by Joseph Finney

The Cook 1st Voyage Transit of Venus, Journeyman Clock by John Shelton

The Kingwood Graham

The Grande Sonnerie pre-numbered silver mounted Tompion double dial bracket clock

The Arnold Poket Timekeeper

Faberge Portrait of ‘Custer’ a Romanov French Bulldog, circa 1908

The Faberge Nephrite Gueridon

A Faberge Hardstone figure of John Bull

The 1903 Kelch Bonbonniere Faberge Egg

The Clancarty (Master of the Royal Mint) Gold Box, a gift from George IV, London 1821, James Strachan.

A Papal workshop gold mounted micro mosaic snuff box by Strachan 1807

The Dundas/Aberdeen/Morriset gold, diamond and enamel freedom box London 1793

The finest known pair of Imperial China Trade views of the Summer Palace Peking

Hilda Rix Nicholas, Une Australienne now in the National Gallery Canberra

The Kenneth Stewart Collection of Conrad Martens

The First View of Sydney now in the Art Gallery of South Australia

The Frog Bracelet, a Queensland gold mounted opal bracelet

Australian gold set opal brooch

Lola Montez gold brooch, now in the National Gallery Canberra

The Partridge Moonstone and turtle shell tiara commissioned by Liberty & Co, in original box.

The Lady Granville Beetle Tiara exhibited on loan from Emma Hawkins, Powerhouse Museum 2013 – 2015

Sapphire and Diamond Coronet designed by Prince Albert for Queen Victoria, now in the V&A

The Soberton Late Bronze Age gold Penannular Bracelet

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