Search results for 'Michel Reymond'

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...

George Richard Addis, watchmaker and jeweller: his Victorian and Tasmanian years

George Richard Addis (1864–1937) is best known as one of Western Australia’s leading late 19th- and early 20th-century goldfields jewellers, whose Western Australian work has been documented by Dorothy Erickson.1 Many jewellers however worked in different colonies, and here Michel Reymond records for the fi...

The Fereday service

The Fereday service is a rare example of armorial porcelain tableware relating to colonial Australia, bearing the name, position and crest of the owner Dudley Fereday, first Sheriff of Van Diemen’s Land (1823–33) (plate 1). Although none of the surviving pieces bears a mark identifying the manufacturer, the...

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...

John Rider Roberts

Two years ago, we published a watercolour by John Rider Roberts that is especially important as a visual record of Robert Fowler’s industrial pottery, bottle and pipe works at Camperdown in Sydney’s inner west. As manufacturing in Australia is replaced by service industries, such manufacturing sites are bei...

Frank Piaggio and Piaggio & McKinlay, watchmakers and jewellers of Perth

An Anglo-Indian sideboard

Morris Castle Sydney cabinet maker: his addresses and neighbours

John Clarke Jr, Andrew Lenehan & James Templeton, 'Cabinet Makers of Castlereagh St, Sydney

The baronet butcher of Wagga Wagga

Letters

The value of land records in research

‘J. Josephson’ - a Mystery Solved

John (Jaan) Kannuluik, Cabinet-maker, Melbourne

Timothy Tillston Jones, Sydney Jeweller: A Biographical Note

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

Lawsons

Book review: Shar Jones and Michel Reymond, ’Monsieur Noufflard's House’, Historic Houses Trust of NSW

Land Records and Historic Buildings

Light - An Early View of Adelaide

Brief Notes on Two Early Adelaide Identities