Atherton Antiques and Australiana

A heritage art-deco building on Tolga Road holds a quarter-century's worth of colonial furniture and Australiana, assembled by owners Fran and Nick with the eye of long-time dealers. The furniture leans to pieces worked from local timbers, red cedar, silky oak and Queensland maple, including cabinetry by noted Queensland makers, alongside English china, sterling silver, cut glass and jewellery. Beyond the shopfront the pair are fixtures of the regional antiques scene, running charity roadshows for community groups and a talkback segment on ABC Far North radio. It is a proper dealer's room rather than a bric-a-brac shed: labelled, provenance-minded, and strongest on the domestic furniture and collectables of tropical Queensland's early decades. For a town on the tourist route up from Cairns, it is the serious stop for anyone chasing Australiana with a paper trail rather than another rainforest souvenir.