Search results for 'Kevin Skelsey'

Australiana Society Sydney Basin Tour, March 2022

Numbers were limited on the NSW Branch’s recent successful tour of the Sydney Basin, so one of the organisers, Peter Crawshaw, reports on it for members who were not able to take part in person, especially those who live outside Sydney. Colonial furniture collector Bob Fredman was honoured to be asked to give...

Kevin Fahy Annual Lecture 2018: Tasmaniana

Firstly thank you to Jim and the Society Committee for demonstrating the faith you have in me to deliver what I regard as this most important lecture. We all owe the late Kevin Fahy a significant debt for the time that he took researching, collecting and preserving Australia’s heritage, particularly in the bo...

A message from the President

In October this year, the Australiana Society will turn 40, and I am very pleased to announce that we will be recognising this important milestone in a number of different ways. However it is worthwhile remembering that when the Society was founded in 1978 there was very limited interest in Australian decorativ...

A Queensland colonial egg inkstand returns home

Prominent colonists or officials returning “home” were often presented with a memento to thank them for their achievements in Australia. These gifts often took the form of an object that was distinctly Australian in its design or materials. Many works have been forgotten or destroyed, so it is a gratifying ...

2017 Kevin Fahy lecture: The Vaucluse House collection 1915-1970

Vaucluse House has been in public ownership since 1910, initially managed by a government-appointed board of trustees as a public park and historical museum, and latterly managed as a house museum under the control of the Historic Houses Trust of NSW (now known as Sydney Living Museums). Megan Martin looks at t...

THE KEVIN FAHY INAUGURAL ANNUAL LECTURE 2016: ‘My Uncle Kev’

We are so lucky to have such a beloved, wonderful and extraordinary uncle, brother, great uncle and, of course, friend! Our family are all so touched that the Australiana Society has honoured Kev in this way and we are sure that watching over us this evening he is thrilled! You call him Kevin Fahy AM ... but we...

THE KEVIN FAHY INAUGURAL ANNUAL LECTURE 2016: ‘Kevin Fahy (1932-2007). Friend, patriarch, storyteller, scholar'

The idea of an annual series of lectures named after Kevin Fahy came from our secretary, Michael Lech. The obvious subject for the first, held in Sydney on 12 March, was Kevin himself. Australiana editor and foundation member John Wade chose to talk about him as a friend, patriarch, storyteller and scholar, to ...

Backchat

The first update to my book Convict and Free: the Master Furniture-makers of NSW 1788–1851 will be available on CD in December, with at least two new chapters, on Thomas Mercer Booth and John McMahon. However, Australiana members may be interested to learn now that a reader from Ireland has provided me with d...

Book Review: Jewels on Queen

In 1970, Anne Schofield opened the first shop in Australia dealing exclusively in antique jewellery (in Queen Street, Woollahra, hence the book title) and has been dealing from there ever since. She is well-known from her appearances at fairs and in the media, for her support foreword which introduces the reade...

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...

Book review: Kevin Power, 'John Campbell Pottery'

Produced from its premises in Launceston, Tasmania, Campbell’s pottery products were shipped to shops and agents in Tasmania, mainland Australia, New Zealand and as far as India and the USA. Examples can be found regularly at antique shops and auction rooms throughout Australia. The vast majority of pieces av...

Kevin Fahy, an interview by Jim Bertouch part 3

Kevin Fahy: an interview by Jim Bertouch part 2

Kevin Fahy: An interview by Jim Bertouch Part 1

Kevin Fahy AM (1932-2007)

James Oatley's long case clocks

The Hunts' - Sydney Cabinetmakers

Book review: John Buttsworth, ‘Australian Colonial Furniture - A guidebook’, Colonial Living Press 1987

Furniture Inventories of Government House Parramatta 1821-1855

Australia Day Luncheon 1997 held at Old Government House 1862-1886

Book review: Carter's Collecting Australiana: A Guide to Australian Antique & Collectables, Kangaroo Press/Carter's Antiques and Collectables Publications, 19950

Government House, Sydney

Book review: Geoff Ford, ’Australian Pottery: The First 100 Years'

Edward Bangs (1823-1902): an early Melbourne silversmith

The First Exhibitions of Early Australian Decorative Arts: Sydney 1929, 1941 and 1953

Two Parramatta collections: An Australiana Society members excursion

Book review: David Moore (with text by Rodney hall), 'Sydney Harbour’ 1994

Book review: ‘Early Australian Samplers 1831-1940’, Embroiders Guild Victoria, 1989

Book review: Anthony Hill, ‘Antique Furniture in Australia’, Penguin Books Australia

Book review: 'The Australian Dream: Design of the Fifties’, Powerhouse Publishing, 1993

Book review: Peter Luck, ‘Australian Icons’, Heinemann 1992

Book review: Grace Cochrane, ‘The Crafts Movement in Australia: A History’, NSW University Press 1992

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

Book review: Scott Carlin (edited by David Wells), ‘Terracotta Australis: Potters and Brickmakers 1833-1981’, The Newcastle Regional Museum 1992

Book review: Michael Atherton, ‘Australian Made ... Australian Played’, NSW University Press 1990

Book review: Mary Ann Parker, ‘A Voyage Around the World (1795)’ (Reissued with commentary by Gavin Fry. Edited by Hordern House for the Australian National Maritime Museum 1992)

James Oatley & His Long case Clocks - A list and bibliography

Book review: Australians At Home. Terence Lane and Jessie Serle, ’A Documentary History of Australian Domestic Interiors from 1788-1914’, Oxford University Press 1990

Book review: John D. Thompson, ’Calyx, Wembley Ware and Bristile China’, Bristile Ltd 1989

Book review: Anne Schofield and Kevin Fahy, 'Australian Jewellery 19th and Early 20th Century, by Anne Schofield and Kevin Fahy’, David Ell Press 1990

Fitzroy Terrace 6-18 Pitt Street Redfern, NSW

The Roberts Presentation 1879

Letter from the President

Letter from the President

Book review: Terence Lane, ’Schulim Krimper Cabinet-Maker, Gryphon Press 1987’

Book review: The Skottowe Manuscript. A facsimile edition of the original manuscript in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, (2 Vols). David Ell Press & Hordern House 1988

Andrew Lenehan, Sydney Cabinetmaker

Book review: Clifford Craig, ’Notes on Tasmania’, Foot & Playsted 1987

Book review: Kevin Fahy, Christina Simpson and Andrew Simpson, ’Nineteenth Australian Furniture’, David Ell Press 1985

Alexander Dick - Silversmith