Latest Fresh Stock Posts
Christmas Gift Ideas 2023
We all have a ‘Problem Present Person’ – someone who has ‘everything’, so the problem is what on earth to buy them for Christmas? Moorabool offers some fabulous ideas for the situation. Have a…
Fresh Stock – Derby Figures, Staffordshire Poodles, Artworks + more
Welcome to our latest ‘Fresh Stock’ release. It’s a terrific variety of fine pieces this week. There’s lots more to come in the next few weeks also…. just in time for Christmas! See all the…
Fresh Stock featuring Quality Asian, Fine Furniture, Artworks etc.
Fresh Stock – Irish Pokerwork, Chinese Silver, Australiana Prints, Zogan Box – plus more!…
Fresh Stock @ Moorabool
Welcome to the latest ‘Fresh’ items to enter our stock at Moorabool Antiques. This week, there’s a good selection of English Sterling Silver, some handy Furniture, a selection of local S.T.Gill prints, plus lots more! See…
Fresh Stock – English 19th c. porcelain + all things
Welcome to the latest Fresh Stock release on Moorabool.com. This week along with some lovely 19th century porcelain including Coalport, Spode, Ridgway and others We have our fabulous ‘Le Festival Français’ this weekend….. learn more…
Fresh Stock – Fine Chinese, Shipwreck Ceramics, Pottery Rarities
Welcome to the latest Fresh Stock release on Moorabool.com. This week you will find a good selection of collector’s Pottery, including the rare ‘Pope & Devil’ stirrup cup seen here. This is a drinking vessel,…
Important Discoveries
A rare fake ‘TP Dexter’ Sterling Jug: Silver Fraud!
These three jugs look very similar, and yet only one is genuine. Below is a Genuine engraved jug of 1798, a Victorian version of 1888, and another Victorian…. but with marks claiming it is Sheffield 1797. Can you pick the…
Introducing…. artist A. E. Jobson 1868-1955
An interesting recent discovery by Moorabool was this small pastel scene of an Australian beach.Signed ‘A. E. Jobson’, it is an interesting chalk sketch, done on a coarse textured grey toned paper. Looking for the artist proved to be pointless;…
A Phar Lap Australian Silver Charm
A remarkable momento of the epic 1930 Melbourne Cup win by Phar Lap, commemorating J.E. Pike’s win, this rare Australian Sterling Silver medallion is Fresh to Moorabool’s stock – just in time for today’s Melbourne Cup 97 years later……..
C. Dudley Wood’s portrait of RAAF officer Peter N. Munro
This splendid wartime watercolour portrait depicts a very distinct character. By his stripes he’s an NCO Sargent, and reading his brevet – the badge with ‘AG’ and a wing on his shirt – he was an air-gunner in the Australian…
Australian Portraits: A ‘unique’ Sir Henry Parkes profile, + Miniature of Lady Parkes as a young girl.
Two fascinating items fresh to Moorabool’s stock bring to life the story of Sir Henry Parkes and his three wives…. as well as an interesting Melbourne artist responsible for her image, John Botterill….
Rarity in Miniature: micro-carved Ivory Rococo scene, c.1795
Micro-carving describes the feat of creating miniature artworks, with the favourite material being ivory due to its compact nature which carves easily and displays well. Set against the burgundy silk, this example is a splendid example of the technique. The…
Moorabool News
Très Français! French Celebration @ ‘The Heights’, Geelong, 28-29 Oct. 2023
Bonjour! Moorabool is pleased to be a part of the 2023 ‘Le Festival Français’, to be held on the last weekend of October 2023. It’s a fabulous celebration of all things French – Food, Wine, Music – there’s even a ‘New Caledonia Tourism’ stand which is giving away a trip…
A Sensational Tudor Discovery
An Important piece of Tudor History has just been identified in Australia. A Royal piece of needlework with visual clues to authorship leads to a remarkable conclusion involving the founding of Spain, Christopher Columbus, and Henry VIII of England, with his wife Catherine of Aragon….
2022 Melbourne Antique Fair, Malvern Town Hall
Moorabool’s exhibiting at the 60th Antique Dealer’s Fair in Melbourne – and that’s 60 out of 60 attended! Have a look around with these photos…….
A Fresh Discovery – 1751 Pastel by Perronneau, finest portraitist of his day.
Regarded by the leading expert Neil Jeffares as one of the two ‘best pastel portraitists’ of the 18th century, Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1716-1783) is rarely seen outside collections. We were very excited to find a previously unrecorded portrait in Melbourne recently. It had an inscription on the back which gave us…
Happy 2022!
Another year has turned over- we would like to thank you for the support in 2021, and in 2022 we have so much more to enjoy. It’s an exciting time for Moorabool, with a number of projects all coming together – including a brand-new website. We paused this over Christmas…
A new Spin on Antiques…
We’ve been busily working on a terrific new way of viewing our stock on Moorabool.com. You may have already noticed our photos are larger than before, and you can explore the pieces in greater detail by zooming in. While that’s a help, we have something even better to offer:…
Curated Collections
Curated -Australiana
Australia has a vast range of items unique to this ‘Great Southern Land’…. from the First Nation’s fascinating art &…
Anglo-Indian Antiques & Art
See more Indian items Indian Bronzes ‘Indian’ Silver As the British enriched on Burma, they assimilated the artworks of Burma (Myanmar) into…
Tribal Focus
An exotic collection of ‘Tribal’ has just been launched on Moorabool.com – from Australian Aboriginal, to our closest neighbour, Papua…
Stage & Literature
Some interesting items in stock at Moorabool are all about the Stage: this is the pop-culture of the 18th…
Curated Collections
We’re pleased to announce a new way of browsing our vast stock on moorabool.com: Curated Collections. These small groups of…