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Episode 35, Friday 10 October 2008
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ABC TV’s COLLECTORS program is back in Launceston this week, showcasing more of Northern Tasmania’s treasures and history.
Shining a light onto the beautiful world of antique oil lamps is Coral Howe. She has been collecting for 45 years, and has 400 immaculate English, American and French glass lamps, and the look is stunning. She is passionate and a mine of information.
Also big on stories is Josh Marshall, an avid skier and collector of snowmobiles. He has 17 and each one has a story to tell, with the earliest dating from 1965. All of them have worked in Tasmania’s Mt Field and Ben Lomond ski fields, and some of them have Antarctic history as well.
At the Queen Victoria Museum, Gordon takes us back to the hot, fiery days a century ago at the Inveresk Railway Blacksmith Shop, which had 14 forges and four huge furnaces blazing away 24 hours a day. When it finally closed in 1993, all the workstations were left intact. Gordon lights up their history for us.
And Adrian illustrates another history. Shell necklaces have been made by Tasmanian Aboriginal women for thousands of years. The tradition runs like a thread through the highs and lows of indigenous history, and today the necklaces are recognised as true art … highly collectable and extremely valuable.
Finally, the Team head off to the famous Evandale Markets to bring us all the fun of the fair and the antique and collectable riches for which Evandale is known far and wide.
Add in the Auction action and the maddening “Mystery Object”, and we have another cracking edition of COLLECTORS.
COLLECTORS 8pm Friday, ABC1 … don’t miss it!
Repeated on ABC2 6.05pm the following Monday.
