Home > Let's Go Shopping > Online Store

Our little shop

Sooooo, our shop isn't quite online yet, but you can still contact us to order some great items! Every purchase brings us a little closer to building the Australian Opal Centre.

Choose from the products below, then phone us or send an email to let us know what you would like to purchase.

Payments may be made by credit card or EFTPOS and shipping will be charged at cost - please ask for a quote. Click here to see our telephone number and email address.

Black Opal Calendar 2011

  NEW: Black Opal Calendar 2011

The Australian Opal Centre's spectacular 2011 Black Opal desk calendar, featuring magnificent black opal photographed by Robert A. Smith. Beautiful, inspiring and in a convenient new format. An inexpensive gift, perfect for Christmas.

210 x 99mm, one month per opening.

$14.95AU + postage and handling.
Old Matey Over There

  NEW: Old Matey Over There: Poems from Lightning Ridge

By The Shovel.

A new classic and one of the most insightful, yet hilarious, books ever published about Lightning Ridge. "Shovel...has given us new classics such as 'Old Matey's Emu', 'The Fly on the Wall', 'The Dopper's Tale' and 'A Specker' - and lots more. This is hilarious and daring work, alive with all the verve, quirkiness and eccentricity of Lightning Ridge."

Softcover, 108 pages, 210 x 148mm.

$19.95AU + postage and handling.
Black Opal Fossils of Lightning Ridge

  Black Opal Fossils of Lightning Ridge

By Elizabeth T. Smith with photographs by Robert A Smith.

Simply the best and most beautiful book available about the opalised fossils of Lightning Ridge.  Out of print and not many copies left - will soon be a collectors' item.

Hardcover, 112 pages, 217x288mm.

$85.00AU + postage and handling.
Opal - The Phenomenal Gemstone

  Opal - The Phenomenal Gemstone

Various authors.

Undoubtedly the best book currently available about opal of the world.  Published in 2007; great photography and authoritative text, including contributions by Australian Opal Centre project members. A must-have.

Softcover, 108 pages, 209x296mm.

$45.00AU + postage and handling.
Lightning Ridge

  Lightning Ridge

By Ion L Idriess.

2009 reprint of the Ion Idriess classic, recalling life at the Ridge a century ago.

Softcover, 234 pages, 183 x 121mm.

$16.50AU + postage and handling.

Posters

  Posters - Set of 2

Two spectacular posters:
• Lightning Ridge: The Early Years
• Amazing Opalised Fossils

$15.00AU + postage and handling.
What - you want more? Fair enough, too - we can't get enough of this stuff either!

Let's make a deal: order from this choice little selection and we promise we'll add more as soon as we can.

If you're in Lightning Ridge, or you are going to be visiting soon, you can collect your goods at our showroom next to Tom's Lapidary.

For mail order, simply click here for our telephone number and email address, contact us with your order, we'll give you a quote on postage then send your goodies on their way to you. All proceeds go towards building the Australian Opal Centre.

 





© Australian Opal Centre.