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TRINITY ANTIQUES

Trinity Antiques offers a selected range of jewellery, silver, porcelain and objet d’art. Specialising in Australian Colonial Jewellery and Small Treasures, items from our collection can be found in all of Australia's National Public Collections and many State based Collections. In particular, we enjoy identifying the historical relevance of antiques. Trinity Antiques is represented in Valentine’s Antique Gallery in Bendigo

Valentine's Antique Centre

Bendigo Victoria

Trevor Hancock

0431 226 343 tcfhancock@hotmail.com

A rare 18ct gold full hunter fob watch by Timothy Tillotson Jones 1819-1897. Jones was a goldsmith, jeweller, watchmaker and optician born in Islington, London, where his father was also a jeweller. He emigrated to New South Wales in the mid 1850’s. The inner cover is engraved “Henry Ainge/ March 6th 1887". The engine turned case, has initials inscribed to the centre of the front cover. The gold case Birmingham 1887. The ‘Sydney Mail’ of 1892 reported that Henry Ainge had acquired 116 acres of land at Glen Innes.

$9,750