Australiana Society Inc.

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 ($15 each) are available directly from us. Household subscriptions cost $60, institutions $65. 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 34 no 1, February 2012 Andrew Morris, 'Gold! An extraordinary colonial image' Dorothy Erickson, 'Marina Shaw: china painter, sculptor, portrait painter' John Hawkins, 'Hidden corners: rediscovering Firnhaber and Schomburgk in the Digital Age' Christine Erratt, 'Ceremonial maces of Australian universities, part 1' Geoff Ford, 'An 1865 watercolour of Fowler's Camperdown Pottery'

Cover: George Alexander Gilbert (1815 England - Australia 1889?), Panning for gold on the Australian goldfields, Mt Alexander Victoria. Watercolour, ink & pencil. signed and dated 'G Gilbert 1852', detail. Private collection

Back issues cost $15 posted, but not all back issues are available. You can order by emailing us.

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.

Advertising in Australiana
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William Hamilton (c.1796-1885), Occasional Table, Hobart, c1850, huon pine, brass, cedar, h72cm x w74cm. Collection: Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Photo: Jane Townsend.  William Hamilton arrived in Hobart in 1832 as a free settler from Ireland. He was active as a cabinetmaker from 1834 to 1878 and was in business with J. McLoughlin and later with James Whitsides. He retired briefly in 1852 when he returned to Ireland. In 1858, he re-established his business in Hobart with his sons. Hamilton exhibited furniture at the Great Exhibition, London in 1851 and at the Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia, Melbourne in 1866 to 1868.