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Founder 1884-1926
Max Lawson as a head auctioneer at Lawsons premises in 1965.
The premises at 236 Castlereagh St. The home of Lawsons for more than fifty years.
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HistoryJames R Lawson senior established himself as the leading auctioneer in Sydney Town during the 1870’s when Sydney was a bustling market town, thronging with new immigrants full of pioneering opportunities as a new world city. In those days everything from groceries such as the tea and salt, through to sailing ships were sold by public auction often on the wharfs. James R Lawson was well known in his day as the leading auctioneer in Sydney and he also had a reputation as a great raconteur and the best dressed auctioneer in town. Into this century the family owned company of Lawson’s sold many of the finest collections at Sydney’s gracious homes including on site asuctions at Toft Monks and Notable collections sold included the Burdekin House sale in 1922, The Lloyd Jones collection at Rosemont Woollahra in 1981, the Norman Sheuruck collection in 1963 and the Sim Rubensohn collection at Kelvin Lodge in 1973. More recently Lawson sold the collection of Amana Finley and Sir Peter and Lady Finley in April 2003.
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