Real Estate
30 October, 2026
Flashback: October 30, 1996
The auction of high-quality Victorian and Edwardian antiques at the Longerenong Homestead attracted about 300 people from the Wimmera, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Papua New Guinea on Friday, October 25.
The auction of high-quality Victorian and Edwardian antiques at the Longerenong Homestead attracted about 300 people from the Wimmera, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Papua New Guinea on Friday, October 25.
Sale items belonged to the Gregory family of Longerenong, who bought the property almost 80 years ago.
A Horsham bidder paid $4500 for a walnut cameo couch with ladies' and gents' chairs.
Bidders also paid $4000 for a cedar bookcase, $3500 for a Dutch mahogany bed with barley-twist posts and tapestry back, $2500 for a cedar dressing table, $2350 for a walnut three-tier dumb waiter, $2100 for a cedar chest of drawers, and $1850 for a cedar wardrobe.
A Brisbane bidder paid $2550 for a cedar chest of drawers.
Victorian Producers auctioneers Peter Hahn and Tony Parish auctioned the items, which sold for the expected prices.