updated 19th December 2009

Australiana Society Inc.

AUSTRALIA DAY Dinner 2010
Tuesday 26 January 2010, 6.30 pm
The Australiana Society's 2010 Australia Day Dinner
Place: The Women's College, University of Sydney,
15 Carillon Avenue, Newtown, Sydney.
Dinner: Pre-dinner drinks, 3 Courses with wine and soft beverages.
Tour: of the recently renovated college by Dr. Tiffany Donnelly, Vice Principal of the women's college. The college was designed by John Sulman & Joseph Porter Power, the 1894 building still houses much of its original furniture.
Guest Speaker; is Brad Manera. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the arrival of Governor Macquarie in New South Wales, Brad will present an illustrated talk entitled, Maquarie's Men: the 73rd Regiment in the Australian Colonies.

The Australiana Society is an incorporated association of collectors, dealers, auctioneers and researchers devoted to collecting, studying and preserving Australiana: art, decorative arts, antiques, historic items, collectables, buildings and sites, and portable heritage made in, or relating to, Australia. Membership is around 500.

We publish Australiana, a 40-page quarterly all-colour magazine presenting authoritative, topical, and practical articles on Australian art, design, furniture, ceramics, glass, jewellery, metalwork, coins, notes, medals, crafts, ephemera, architecture, history, historic houses, conservation, etc.

The contents and index to Australiana are available on this website. We seek contributions on Australiana subjects; click on Australiana magazine for details.

We organise talks, exhibition viewings, excursions, seminars and other events in Sydney and elsewhere. The Society is run entirely by volunteers.

Subscribe to Australiana magazine
Members receive Australiana magazine, which is available only by subscription. Many individual issues ($10 each) are available directly from us. Household subscriptions cost $55, institutions $60, students $25. Download a membership form  or email info@australiana.org.au for a sample copy.

Media, advertising or general enquiries
Email the Secretary, Michael Lech.

Buying or selling Australiana? Need a valuation?
The Australiana Society does not give valuations. Please check our list of dealers or auctioneers to find one near you who may be able to help. A fee may apply for this service. If you want a valuation for something to buy or sell on the Internet, please do not waste their time.

Australiana magazine Vol 31 no 4, November 2009 Dorothy Erikson, 'Flora Landellis' David Kelly, 'Morris Castle, cabinet maker of London & Sydney' Barbara Butler & David Kelly, 'More on Butler' Mal Harrop, 'Reflections on glass part 2:' Robert Reason & Gary Morgan, 'Two important South Australian gold cups' Robyn Lake, 'Tasmanian furniture history sources' John Wade, 'Carl Gonsalves' John Houstone & John Wade, 'John Austin, forger & silversmith' '

Back issues cost $10 posted, but not all back issues are available. You can order by emailing us. Members can buy a year's back issues (2001-2007) at the discount price of $20 for each year.

Australiana contributions welcome
We encourage you to submit contributions on an aspect of Australiana for our magazine. Contributions be well illustrated and include text, pictures and captions preferably in electronic form. We do not pay for contributions. You can download our Style Guide here.

Australiana contents 1986-2005 and index 1989-2007
You can download the contents and index to Australiana free or you can order the contents and index on floppy or CD by email.

Australiana dealers
Looking for reliable antiques and art dealers who have Australiana in stock? Click for our directory. Want to be listed ? Email  us.

Silver Society of Australia
Click or information about the Silver Society of Australia.

Julius Hogarth (1820-1879), Gold statuette of an Aboriginal man throwing a boomerang. Sydney, 1854, gold, fossilised mammoth tooth, ht 11 cm. Private collection, photo Andrew Frolows Danish-born silversmith Julius Hogarth arrived in Sydney in 1852 to seek gold. He showed this beautifully detailed gold statuette in Sydney in November 1854, and at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1855.