Mrs Banks Antiques

Set in the former Queensland National Bank building on Kent Street, a heritage pile in Maryborough's portside precinct across from the Story Bank museum and the bronze Mary Poppins statue, this is one of the town's serious antique dealers. The stock runs to estate jewellery, coins and banknotes, militaria, Art Deco glassware, sterling silver, clocks, LP records and quality furniture, arranged across the old banking chamber. Maryborough has quietly become a hunting ground for collectors, and this owner-run shop anchors that reputation, drawing repeat praise for its range and the proprietor's knowledge of the pieces. The setting does much of the work: browsing period objects inside a nineteenth-century bank, in a river town that leans hard on its Victorian architecture and civic heritage.