This page has been created to mark the first 50 years of J. B. Hawkins Antiques, the business I opened on my arrival in Australia in 1967. I list 100 important items that have passed through my hands into various Public and Private Collections around the world and I thank all those who have made the dream come true.
I purchased the majority of the ‘Great Tew’ furniture for a proposed new Regency House based on the Nash villa ‘Cronkhill’ at Ellerston for Kerry Packer.
An exact model of the original 3,106 carat flawless stone made by Tiffany in New York this and the Treasury Inkwell given by the King to
Purchased from the antique dealer Guy Bousefield, Eton High Street for £500 in 1973 and sold to the National Trust for Old Government House Paramatta, for
I negotiated the purchase of the cabinet from ‘King’ family descendants, with the help of Ron Radford, the best of the National Gallery Directors who was
Purchased Melbourne 1987 and exhibited at the Australian Antique Dealers Association Fair, Sydney 1988. I purchased this table for $79,500 at Sotheby’s in Melbourne, 29 September
Friedrich Ludwig Hausberg (1817-1886) born in Berlin, Prussia, became a naturalized British subject under very unusual circumstances on 23 March 1840. This was the year that
This unique design by Thomas Hope (1769-1831) is of a seemingly simple form of Regency ‘tub’ chair exemplifies Thomas Hope’s timeless genius as a designer. Their
This table was purchased by the collector Edward Knoblock, whose label it bears. When a modern 5 ply strengthener was removed from under the top the
The cabinet is one of a pair, the other is in the V&A and contra partie to this example which belonged to the Naylor-Leyland family at
Each with a scrolled serpentine top rail centred by foliage and flanked by turned finials above a panelled back, edged with foliate and bead-and-reel ornament, the
Indian (vizagapatam) probably circa 1710 Provenance: Edward Harrison (1674–1732), Balls Park, Hertfordshire, and assumed to have been acquired while he was Governor of Fort St George
Designed by Charles Pasley and made by Charles Johnston & Co. using European Labour Only. This chair was used by the Duke of York to open
These were made from materials that embodied the status (mana) and prestige of the warrior-priests and chiefs who wore them. (Feathers various, including Pacific black duck
Inscribed: JOHN GILLINBONG/COMMANDER and chief of the aboriginal forces/on the/ MOANBAH RIVER Captain John Maunder Gill of the 46th Regiment arrived with his Regiment in 1813.
Purchased Christie’s, South Kensington, London for $5,000. Sold to Warren Anderson for $10,000. Sold for $300,000 in the Anderson/ Owston/ Bonhams sale. For further details of
Purchased Christies in partnership with R A Lee 1986 sold to Warren Anderson for 20.000 pounds. Purchased before his sale by Bonhams by the Maritime Museum
Detail copied from the Phillip letter, from a painting owned by the Hawkins family, by Raymond Ching, exhibited at the Royal Academy London. Provenance: The Collection
The large Quartz nugget on a superb Italian rosso antico base is a rare relic of the Australian Gold Rush of the 1850’s and 1860’s. It
On long term loan to the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston. For further details please see my article: The 1894 Murrumbidgee Turf Club Gold Cup
I purchased this at auction acting on behalf of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. On being asked I told the Museum what I thought that the cup
The gift of the Duke and Duchess of York to Lord Hopetoun on behalf of Queen Victoria on the opening of the first Federal Parliament in
Top left in the photograph taken from the lithograph in Waring. Exhibited by Flavelle Brothers at the International Exhibition of 1862. Described J. B .Waring Vol
A unique gold statuette of an Aboriginal. References: J. B. Hawkins, Australiana August 2000, Julius Hogarth Behind the Shop Front, part 2., illustrated page 72. There
Both cups were sold twice. This photograph was taken prior to the export of all three cups, as an investment to a UK buyer. Incredibly this was
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