John Hawkins established J B Hawkins Antiques and is a founder member of the Australian Antique & Art Dealers' Association

JB Hawkins Antiques has supplied items to the following institutions:

The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria
The Art Gallery of South Australia
The Geelong Gallery, Victoria
The National Library in Canberra
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Minneapolis Institute of Art
The National Museum of Scotland
The National Army Museum, Edinburgh

More details about the Zoomorphic Collection here (PDF)

John Hawkins established J B Hawkins Antiques in Australia in 1967, he is a founder member of the Australian Antique & Art Dealers’ Association and its immediate past President.

Born and educated in England, he attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and was commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment in 1962. Resigning his commission he emigrated to Australia in 1967.

In 1973 he wrote the catalogue of an exhibition held by the National Trust in Sydney, titled Australian Silver 1800 - 1900. Three further books have been written Thomas Cole and Victorian Clockmaking, (1975) The Al Tajir Collection of Silver (1985) and Nineteenth Century Australian Silver (1990).