Search results for the tag 'gold'

The Paris Exposition Universelle, the Suez Canal and a Gold Sphinx Brooch

November 2022 marks the centenary of the discovery of the virtually intact tomb of King Tutankhamun, who reigned from about 1332 to 1323 BC. The pharaoh’s burial goods created a worldwide sensation focussed on ancient Egypt, which has long fascinated Europeans, partly because of its Biblical connections and p...

James and Charlotte Cowlishaw’s ‘Golden Wedding’ Napkin Rings, c 1912

What better way to celebrate a golden wedding than with a golden gift that symbolises affection for the recipients, their intimate connection over 50 years and carries their monograms? Dianne Byrne explores the background to a pair of gold napkin rings presented to James and Charlotte Cowlishaw in Brisbane in 1...

The Tattersall's Club cups: Queensland racing history in gold and silver 1884-1888

Dianne Byrne shares some of the outcomes of her postgraduate research into 19th-century presentation jewellery and metalwork made in Queensland or for Queenslanders, focusing here on a series of racing trophies made in the 1880s for the Tattersall’s Club Cup run at Eagle Farm racecourse. Two of these were mad...

Australian goldsmiths' marks: the records of the Australian Assay Office

When you are dealing with precious metals, you want to know that what you have is what it is claimed to be. European countries instituted hallmarking systems to verify this, some of them operating for over 700 years. Silver expert Jolyon Warwick James discusses how Australia had its own hallmarking system, but ...

William Lamborn, gold rush jeweller in colonial Melbourne and his associations with Henry Leopold Wagner and Samuel Peck Woollett

Jillian Dwyer unravels the facts surrounding the place of William Lamborn in the triumvirate of Woollett, Wagner and Lamborn as Victorian gold rush jewellers, refines the dates of their operations, maps the emergence of Lamborn & Wagner as “one of the earliest firms of manufacturing jewellers in Australia,”...

Of frogs, gold bracelets, opals, ladies and queens

John Hawkins speculates about the origin of a massive gold bracelet with cast and chased decoration, mounted with polished Queensland boulder opal, and its possible connections with the colourful discoverers and promoters of late 19th century and early 20th century Queensland opals.

Bling: 19th century goldfields jewellery

Jewellery dealer Anne Schofield, who performed the official opening of the exhibition Bling: 19th century goldfields jewellery at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Ballarat on 16 April, kindly let us publish her address.

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...

The John Watts necklace: a masterpiece of Australian gold jewellery by Christian Ludwig Qwist

Two new colonial exhibitions in Adelaide: 'Bounty: 19th-century; South Australian gold and silver; South Australia Illustrated

Gold! An extraordinary colonial image

Brilliant postscript: 1850s mounted emu eggs, goldfields jewellery and ... a goldfields cup

Thoroughbred gold: the 1894 Murrumbidgee Turf Club Gold Cup

Goldfields jewellery

Book review: Brilliant. Australian Gold and Silver 1851-1950

Book review: Gold & Silversmithing in Western Australia: A History

Two important South Australian gold cups

Louis Kitz, a newly identified early Australian goldsmith & silvesmith

Gold Rush drama, on stage and off

The legacy of the gold rush quilt

Book review: Brilliant. Australian Gold and Silver 1851-1950

A Ring fit for a Prince? A Gold Mining Souvenir from Colonial Victoria

The Adelaide Gold Pound

Genesis of the Riverview Gold Challenge Cup

Genesis of the Riverview Gold Challenge Cup

W.J. Sanders, Manufacturing Silversmith, Goldsmiths & Art Metal Workers

English Furniture and the Australian Market in the late 19th century

Book review: Winsome Shepherd, Gold and Silversmithing in Nineteenth & Twentieth Century New Zealand

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

Nineteenth Century Silversmiths and Goldsmiths (Jewellers) of Western Australia

Kozminsky Bicentennial Exhibition Australian Silver Gold & Jewellery - Melbourne 1988

Nineteenth Century Silver & Goldsmiths (Jewellers) of Western Australia - Pearls & Progress. The Emigrants

Nineteenth Century Silver and Goldsmiths (Jewellers) of Western Australia - Swan River Colony. The First Smiths

Nineteenth Century Silver and Goldsmiths (Jewellers) of Western Australia - An Introduction

Substantial Evidence of Your Gratitude’ - A Silver and Gold Presentation Inkstand by William Edwards, Melbourne, in 1865

The Silverware of Magnus Goldring Incorporating Edwin Harrop

Golding & Son - Australia's Oldest Silversmith Firm

From Gold Trowel to Gold Brooch