Past Sales

This page has been created to mark the first 50 years of J. B. Hawkins Antiques, the business I opened on my arrival in Australia in 1967. I list 100 important items that have passed through my hands into various Public and Private Collections around the world and I thank all those who have made the dream come true.

All
Antiquities
Art
Australian Silver
Australiana
Clocks and Watches
English & European Silver
English Furniture
Faberge
Furniture
Gold Boxes
Jewellery
Porcelain & Pottery
Various

Hilda Rix Nicholas, Une Australienne now in the National Gallery Canberra

An important portrait by Hilda Rix Nicholas of her fellow Australian, travelling companion and friend, Dorothy Richmond painted in Paris in 1925 and exhibited at ...

The Kenneth Stewart Collection of Conrad Martens

This was one of the largest collections of works by the great 19th century artist Conrad Martens, it was displayed at the Art Gallery of ...

The First View of Sydney now in the Art Gallery of South Australia

This painting is possibly the earliest and quite definitely the best colonial oil painting of Sydney. Attributed to the Scottish convict artist, Thomas Watling, it ...

The Frog Bracelet, a Queensland gold mounted opal bracelet

The design and construction of this extremely rare and highly important seven opal bracelet in colonial gold suggests a date of manufacture after 1880, after ...

Australian gold set opal brooch

Australian gold set opal brooch, probably the most important 20th century Australian jewel, now in the Kennedy Collection. Made by Ernesto Priora Artist Jeweller, 172 ...

Lola Montez gold brooch, now in the National Gallery Canberra

Purchased from David Lavender in London for £7,500 in 1979, sold to the late John Houstone whose collection was purchased en bloc by Ron Radford ...

The Partridge Moonstone and turtle shell tiara commissioned by Liberty & Co, in original box.

Exhibited ‘Tiara Exhibition’ V&A item number 58 in catalogue’ property Miss Emma Hawkins.

The Lady Granville Beetle Tiara exhibited on loan from Emma Hawkins, Powerhouse Museum 2013 – 2015

Export stopped Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art UK, purchased by British Museum. Reference: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research /collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx? objectId=3773729&partId=1&searchText= Phillips+Brothers&page=1 The survival of this ...

Sapphire and Diamond Coronet designed by Prince Albert for Queen Victoria, now in the V&A

Export stopped by Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art UK, purchased for the nation by a private benefactor. Reference: https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/sites /default/files/download-file /EA%20submission%20-%20Queen%20Victoria%27s%20Coronet.pdf

The Soberton Late Bronze Age gold Penannular Bracelet

One of eight known weighing over 100 grams found by a metal detector, Hampshire 2016. Reference: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/783818 Please click for further information: The Soberton Bracelet ...