COLLECTABLES

MUSEUM PIECES

DISCOVER UNUSUAL PIECES FOUND IN THE PERMANENT COLLECTIONS OF GALLERIES AROUND THE COUNTRY.

STICK FURNITURE IS ANCIENT and examples can be found in many different cultures. In Australia, the tradition was strongest in northern Tasmania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Craftsmen — including Jimmy ‘Possum’ (so-called because he lived in the bush, perhaps in a hollow tree), Mick Cook, Lennie Longford, and members of the Larcombe