Although an event that happened 60 years ago, the Beatlemania phenomenon that gave rise to hysterically screaming and crying teenagers as part of pop music culture will be front of mind when Melbourne-based Leski Auctions holds a sale that includes a photographic collection of the Beatles 1964 visit to Adelaide as part of their only Australian tour. The auction, from 12pm Tuesday October 29 and Wednesday October 30 at 727-729 High Street Armadale, also will comprise a significant poster and camera and photographic equipment collection among the 1076 lots. Although an event that happened 60 years ago, the Beatlemania phenomenon that gave rise to hysterically screaming and crying teenagers as part of pop music culture will be front of mind when Melbourne-based Leski Auctions holds a sale that includes a photographic collection of the Beatles 1964 visit to Adelaide as part of their only Australian tour.The auction, from 12pm Tuesday October 29 and Wednesday October 30 at 727-729 High Street Armadale, also will comprise a significant poster and camera and photographic equipment collection among the 1076 lots.

A stalwart of Australian antiques and art history, Dr Jane Lennon, is auctioning 533  items from her personal collection of Australian silver and gold, rare photographs, furniture, pottery, jewellery and paintings at Melbourne-based Leski Auctions forthcoming sale on Sunday, October 20 at 727-729 High Street, Armadale. With a PhD in art history from the University of Sydney and long experience in the fine arts field including as co-editor of The Australian Collector and its successor The World of Antiques and Art, in 2003 Dr Lennon purchased a rambling 1840s sandstone building in Elizbeth Street, Hobart, Tasmania.

The Pratten collection was one of three in the auction – the others being Sydney dealer Alan Landis and Tasmanian collector Chris Burghey.  A long-time National Trust member and Australian Conservation Foundation board member, as a boy Chris gained his love of nature through visits to the family property Amaroo at Borenore, west of Orange in New South Wales.