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The Universal Language of Art

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Buying a Watch at Auction

Category: Timepieces

The secondary market for timepieces has gained rapid momentum in recent years...

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Art to Transport us

Category: Art

Living in Melbourne, I have spent the majority of the last 18 months in lockdown in my apartment, reading about art, or at our Leonard Joel South Yarr...

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The 1805 Pattern: A Naval Officer’s Sword

Category: Decorative Arts

With this small collection - an officer’s sword and associated ephemera from the first half of the 19th Century, it’s possible to imagine...

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The Green Jewel, for Love and Prosperity

Category: Jewels

Emeralds have long been coveted for their breathtaking natural beauty and prized for their rarity...

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40 Years Ago

Category: Leonard Joel News

In 1990 I was a young auction store person at Leonard Joel (I prefer the English expression “porter”, but I will keep this real!) with an interest...

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What is Virtual Luxury?

Category: Luxury

It’s hard to believe that it has been over a year since our first Virtual Luxury auction in March 2020...

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Striking Gold: Australian Jewellery of the 1850s

Category: Jewels

The “gold fever” that gripped Australia in the 1850s spread like wildfire, overturning the political and social systems as it...

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Modern Australian Women

Category: Art

Australian women artists in the early 20th Century were pivotal in the shaping of Modernism as we know it today...

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Designer Spotlight: Lea Stein

Category: Jewels

Lea Stein’s costume jewellery, although of a definite distinctive style, often transcends the varying tastes of differing demographics...

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Opal – Nature’s Kaleidoscope

Category: Jewels

Opals have a history and lore as colourful as the play-of-colour phenomena they exhibit...

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