Sorell Station Antiques

07/02/2026

28/12/2025

Just a reminder to our customers that we do not operate from our home and haven’t done for some time. We have a stall at Sorell Antiques & Collectables in Somerville Street, Sorell.
Both Martin and I wish you all the very best for the coming new year!

16/11/2025

Sam Cotton always makes me smile….😊

31/07/2025

How absolutely wonderful!! All we’ve found is shards of China, horseshoes, toy cars, marbles and comics from the forties. Oh…and rail spikes….heaps 🤣

A painter scraping rust from a Tasmanian lighthouse has uncovered a 122-year-old message in a bottle that had been hidden in the building's walls since 1903.

The discovery at Cape Bruny Lighthouse has shed new light on the structure’s history and the people who built and maintained it over a century ago.

Historians and conservators are buzzing about the find, calling it one of the most significant lighthouse-related discoveries in years.

The bottle was found wedged deep in a wall cavity of the historic lantern room during routine conservation work.

Inside, they found an envelope containing a letter dated January 29, 1903, written by J.R. Meech, Inspector of Lighthouses for the Hobart Marine Board.

Meech oversaw many of Tasmania’s key lighthouses, including those at Cape Bruny, Cape Sorell, Maatsuyker Island, Tasman Island, Table Cape and Mersey Bluff.

TMAG conservators will now work to preserve the letter before it goes on public display at a location yet to be confirmed.