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Australasia’s leading antiques and collectables magazine trader EDITION 107 DEC 2012 - FEB 2013 FROM AUSTRALIA TO LONDON An expat dealer secures the deal of a lifetime CONNECTING PEOPLE A teenager’s diary becomes music memorabilia Special events remembered and shared UNUSUAL GIFT IDEAS Take a shortcut tour of antique centres and dealers from around the country for those special pieces that won’t break the bank COLLECTING IDEAS What do collectables from New Guinea and New Mexico although very different have in common?

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A u s t r a l a s i a ’ s l e a d i n g a n t i q u e s a n d c o l l e c t a b l e s m a g a z i n e

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FROM AUSTRALIATO LONDON

An expat dealer secures

the deal of a lifetime

CONNECTING PEOPLEA teenager’s diary becomes

music memorabilia

Special events

remembered and shared

UNUSUAL GIFT IDEASTake a shortcut tour of antique

centres and dealers from around

the country for those special

pieces that won’t break the bank

COLLECTING IDEASWhat do collectables from

New Guinea and New Mexico

although very different have

in common?

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FEATURE ARTICLES

6 Valuable Viennese

Secession Furniture

A New York collector

consigns to an expat dealer

Terry Ingram

18 Meeting Karen &

Richard Carpenter

Music memorabilia for Gen X

Judy Pancoast & Rod Labbe

34 Collecting Hispanic folk culture

Ancient customs translated into

tangible symbols

Melody Amsel-Arieli

SUB CULTURECOLLECTING

40 Why collect cigarette packets

Rod Wise

54 A habit worth developing:

collecting Wembley

Ware ashtrays

Alicia Bee

INVESTMENT ANDCOLLECTINGNUMISMATICS

30 New Guinea

head tax tokens

Fascinating

historical records

Peter Lane

70 From Perth Mint: proof coins

that are works of art and

strong investments

KNOWLEDGE BASE

60 Archeological finds

at Tel Megiddo

Unearthing 6,000

years of civilisation

REGULAR FEATURES

43 Conundrum

45 Fairs and more

71 Online Magazines

74 Out & About

76 Notice Board

79 Collectables Subscription

80 Trader

87 Advertising Rates

88 Advertisers’ Index

48 The House of Cartier and famous

women of the

20th century

FOCUS ON TEXTILES12 A dress to dye for

Killer fashions, but not

what you might think

Eleanor Keene

64 Nine-year old

Ada Hamond’s sampler

Colonial history and heritage in

the domestic arts

Veronica Moriarty

IN THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT

24 A guide for gift giving:

from the traditional to

the weird & wonderful

A snapshot of ideas

from specialist outlets

around the country

68 Mrs Beeton’s recipe for the

Christmas table

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For me, unpacking items consigned

for auction can be a little like

Christmas. Lots of boxes full of

goodies, carefully wrapped, and with

little knowledge of what may be hidden

within the layers of tissue paper. Is it

going to meet expectations or is it going

to be a disappointment?

I was recently cataloguing an auction in

Sydney when I came across an unusual

Victorian era vibrant green dress from the

1860s. Throughout my years of experience

I had never seen a green dress like this. I

had seen the colour used on trimmings

and button covers, but never a whole

dress, and here it was in all its green glory,

150 years old and in a wonderful

condition. The voluminous skirt was a little

faded in parts, but otherwise the green

shade had kept its colour well.

A complete Victorian storyThe dress itself comprised of a skirt with

two matching bodices: a low cut lace

Fashion could kill as Eleanor

Keene discovered when

researching a fashionable

Victorian era dress

a dressTO DYE FOR

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take a PEEK inside thisEDITION

of Collectables ...Collectables is published

bi-monthly with each edition bringing

fresh insights and fun collecting

themes. Discover the latest collecting

craze; explore the quirky and

traditional collectable; learn how best

to start a collection. There are tips on

preserving and caring for valued

possessions. Read the diary

and plan a visit to a fair.

Top: Ada Hamond as a young woman in the 1880s

Left: Ada Hamond’s sampler dated 10 July 1872

Few Australian samplers exist and even fewer with full provenance.

This important sampler integrates the 500 year old British tradition of the

child’s sampler into a colonial context

Veronica Moriarty W hen Ada Hamond died in1924 there were no death

notices or obituaries in local

newspapers. She'd lived an unexceptional

life and when she died, like most spinsters

of her time, she was relegated into obscurity.

But Ada did one thing that many others did

not: she sewed what is now one of the most

fully-provenanced samplers in Australia.

The discovery of Ada’s sampler and the

unravelling of her story and those of the

people around her, have combined 130

years after the production of the sampler

to bring it the attention it deserves.Ada’s parentageAda was born in the Melbourne suburb of

Williamstown to Henry and Hannah

Hamond. In 1852 Henry had arrived in

Williamstown from Bristol on the schooner

nine-year-oldADA HAMOND’SSAMPLERTerry Ingram

Ahighly prized number of items

from the collection of New York

mortgage broker Benedict

Silverman went on view at Richard Nagy’s

gallery at 22 Old Bond Street in November.

Among the 27 items which are mostly

Austrian and German expressionist

paintings, the antique furniture from the

Viennese Secession comprises just three

pieces. However these items are valued at

US$15 million.

Nagy, who left Australia for London 30

years ago to carve himself a niche in the

international fine art trade, has found

himself with this surprise selection of

pieces which the international antique and

decorative arts trade would die for.

Entire collection worth

$100 millionThe entire offering, including a painting by

Gustav Klimt, is priced at a ground-breaking

US$100 million. Although this collection

might usually have been expected to end

up on the auction block, Nagy secured it

What must be the most highly valued small collection of antique furniture to

come into Australian hands has gone on sale in London

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VALUABLE VIENNESE

SECESSION FURNITURE

has australian connections

Corner cabinet Die verwunschenen Prinzessinnen (The Enchanted Princesses) designed by

Koloman Moser, 1900, made by Portois and Fix, was conceived for the 8th Secession exhibition

as a three-legged corner cabinet and subsequently made in a four-leg version

Koloman Moser designed

the escutcheon for The

Enchanted Princesses in

the form of a fish monster

Books, prints, toys

Arare Charles Dickens statue sits

among the Victorian gardens in

Sydney’s Centennial Parklands and

across the road and amongst the largest

expanse of Victorian architecture in the

Southern Hemisphere, is TThe Hughenden

built c. 1870s. Here members of the Society

of Children’s Writers and Illustrators Australia

and New Zealand meet and where limited art

quality editions of Anna Pignataro’s

illustrations from the book Ships in the Field

are available for purchase, as are

autographed copies of the books; either would

make a special gift.

Other special prints which would make

great gifts are of Australia’s distinctive

flora, available from Queensland’s the

Antique Print Club. Early engravings and

lithographs can cost as little as $50. In

addition, with Australian botanicals,

Heritage reproductions are also available.

Rare prints and maps are also available

at VVoyager in Brisbane as well as superb

illustrated books from 1920s Paris. Old

and unusual toys would be an interesting

choice for boys and girls: along these lines

Voyager suggests fine microscopes,

telescopes and unusual collectable slides.

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FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY, GIFTS AND MORE

TO END THE YEARfrom the traditional to the weird & wonderful

Voyager

AntiquePrint Club

The Hughenden

More to read

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Memorabilia

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In the film Sunset Boulevarde, Cartier

diamond bracelets are worn by silver

screen siren Gloria Swanson

whileTallulah Bankhead surrenders her Cartier

for bait in Hitchcock's Lifeboat. In Grace

Kelly's last movie High Society she is seen

polishing her 10.5-carat emerald-cut diamond

engagement ring, given to her by Prince

Rainier. Such famous names commissioned

unique pieces from the House of Cartier.

The legendary

Elizabeth Taylor

(1932-2011)

One of the most famous is the ruby and

diamond necklace that was a surprise gift

to Elizabeth Taylor from her third husband,

producer Mike Todd, in August 1957. ‘He

was holding a red leather box, and inside

was a ruby necklace, which glittered in the

warm light. It was like the sun, lit up and

made of red fire,’ she reminisces in her

book My Love Affair with Jewelry, a

weighty coffee table tome featuring her

most significant pieces.

Although this necklace was estimated at

US$200,000-$300,000 for a Christie’s

auction in December 2011, as well as

impressive jewels, its association with such

a glamorous Hollywood star saw it sell for

an amazing US$3,778,500. It is interesting

to note that the necklace comes with a

tiara fitting, allowing it to also be worn as a

head ornament.

Cartierthe name associated with

style, class and famous

women of the 20th century

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Elizabeth Taylor at Las Vegas,

1958 © Photofest

Ruby and diamond necklace, Cartier

Paris, 1951, altered in 1953,

platinum, gold, diamonds:

round, baguette and fancy cut;

8 cushion shaped and oval faceted

rubies, length: 37.5 cm.

Commissioned by Mike Todd for his

wife Elizabeth Taylor. Marian Gérard,

Cartier Collection © Cartier

An official wedding

photograph of

Princess Grace of

Monaco, 1956

wearing Cartier

jewels given to her

by Prince Rainier III

© G Lukomski

By Judy Pancoastas told to Rod LabbeO ctober 17, 1973 is a lifetime

ago, but it’s still incredibly vivid

to me. I can recall smells,

sounds, freshman year of high school, songs

on the radio, how I felt and thought. The

reason is simple – on that balmy autumn

day, at age 14, I met Karen and Richard

Carpenter, my two childhood ‘faves’.

In the interim, I’ve married, raised two

lovely girls, established myself as a

successful Grammy-nominated children’s

entertainer and have had many personal

and career highs. Yet, nothing has ever

surpassed the powerful electricity zapping

through my adolescent hormones as I gazed

upon those whom I absolutely adored.

It was my third Carpenters’ concert, held

at the now-defunct Portland Expo in

Portland, Maine. I expected nothing more

than another pleasant musical event, but

Fate had other plans.

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A TEENAGER’S DIARY IS BABY BOOMER MUSIC

MEMORABILIA FOR GEN Z

meeting Karen and Richard Carpenter

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A u s t r a l a s i a ’ s l e a d i n g a n t i q u e s a n d c o l l e c t a b l e s m a g a z i n e

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FROM AUSTRALIATO LONDON

An expat dealer securesthe deal of a lifetime

CONNECTING PEOPLEA teenager’s diary becomesmusic memorabiliaSpecial eventsremembered and shared

UNUSUAL GIFT IDEASTake a shortcut tour of antiquecentres and dealers from aroundthe country for those specialpieces that won’t break the bank

COLLECTING IDEASWhat do collectables fromNew Guinea and New Mexicoalthough very different havein common?

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Three very different collections

FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS to priceless heritageA jug and its convict maker

TERRY INGRAM looks at Irish and Scottish artworks with Aussie connections

SATSUMA FROM JAPANHow to identify the copies

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