Antiques shopping in Australia
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Restorers Barn
The famous Restorers Barn is literally dripping interesting bric-a-brac, collectables and tools.
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Queen Street
Despite its status as the premier antique-shopping strip in Australia (its first antique shop opened in 1957), refined, tree-lined Queen St retains a village vibe, with pricey boutiques, delis, summer chestnuts hanging heavy on the bough and kids who say, ‘Hey, nice Ferrari!’. There was once a famous annual street fair here, until noise-phobic residents shut it down in the early ’80s.
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Lee Hardcastle Antiques
Queen St, Woollahra is famous for its antique shops. Bordering on bizarre, this one is more like a natural-history museum than an antique dealers. Eighteenth- and early-19th-century taxidermy (zebras, warthogs, black bears and deer) jostles for position with whale ribs, grandfather clocks and walnut wardrobes.
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Sydney Antique Centre
Sydney’s oldest antique shop has 60-plus dealers specialising in porcelain, silver, glass, collectables and furniture. Items range from sports memorabilia to antique grandfather clocks and art-deco jewellery. Pick up a 19th-century alabaster mannequin and drag it ’round the cafe and bookshop.
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Newtown Old Wares
Yearning for a vintage Cilla Black poster, a safari suit or a Blaxploitation lamp? This funky antiques store covers the cool and the kitsch from ‘deco to disco’: old transistor radios, TVs, telephones, jukeboxes, barstools, vinyl couches…perfect for pottering about.
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Wunderkammer
Surprises abound in this, the strangest of shops: taxidermy, bugs in jars, antique scientific tools, surgical equipment and carnivorous plants to name a few.
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Antiques to Retro
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Paddington Antique Centre
The city's biggest antique emporium houses over 50 dealers selling all manner of treasure/trash from the past. Clothes, jewellery, dolls, books, artwork, lamps, musical instruments, toys and more.
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Gaslight Collectables & Old Books
Gaslight Collectables & Old Books is a treasure trove of old books and antiques; browsers can leaf through this shop's treasures while savouring an espresso coffee.
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