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Reporter Joe Colbrook stopped off at Last Frontier Vintage and Collectibles in Campbell Town, a new addition to the heritage-rich high street. Video by Joe Colbrook, Paul Scambler

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00:00The days of Campbelltown being at the frontier of civilisation are over and

00:05for many it is just a stopover on the highway between Launceston and Hobart.

00:10However, these days it is once again home to the frontier.

00:16The last frontier, if you will.

00:19Hi, I'm Anthony from Last Frontier Vintage Collectibles in Campbelltown.

00:24Come on in.

00:25I mean, I'm a 60s baby and grew up in the 70s and Hot Wheels and, you know,

00:34Evel Knievel and all that sort of stuff, playing with that sort of stuff, scale electrics.

00:39And probably the last 10, 15 years have been a little bit more serious.

00:44And been in antique shops in Melbourne where I rent out a space and sell from there.

00:50Go to auctions, garage sales and that sort of stuff, pick up what you can.

00:54And bought a lot of the stuff over here that I collected over the years and put it into the shop here.

01:00In the months since its opening, the store has become a cornucopia of collectibles,

01:06full of trinkets, old school homewares and retro gadgets befitting its status as a vintage shop.

01:12It also has a cabinet full of glowing green glass.

01:15Well, I've loved uranium for years and years and had a little bit of it myself in my collection.

01:20And when I moved here, I put it all in the cabinet.

01:23I really wanted to set up a cabinet with a black light or UV light, which illuminates the uranium.

01:30And I just had a large purchase actually of about 80 pieces.

01:38So I've got over 100 pieces in that little cabinet at the moment.

01:41Now, for those of you who prefer to take your collectibles without radiation.

01:46Owned by Norman Allison, one of the rats at Tobruk.

01:51Pretty proud piece.

01:53It's even got a letter inside that I've kept in there.

01:56Certainly not from that era, but that's provenance of this item that was owned by one of the rats.

02:04All these vintage goodies.

02:06I had to know.

02:07What was the shopkeeper's favourite?

02:09Gosh, it's hard, mate.

02:10That's a hard question.

02:12It's like your kids, I guess.

02:14Eventually, he settled on this funky looking gadget, known as a Teesmaid.

02:19Yeah, well, I've had this in my collection for probably 10 odd years.

02:23I just love it.

02:25Art Deco, 1950s.

02:27Made in England by a mob called Goblin.

02:31And it needs a bit of work, but nevertheless.

02:34A Teesmaid is one of those things you'd have on your bedside table.

02:38Set the alarm.

02:40And it will make a cup of tea for you in the morning for when you wake up already prepared.

02:45After some even more hardline questions.

02:48So, never seen Wallace and Gromit?

02:50No, no.

02:51I'm sure they're classic.

02:53I'm sure they're classic.

02:55What about the clangers?

02:56Little pink sort of mouse things that live on the map, right?

03:00No, never seen them.

03:01No, I'm a 60s child, so...

03:03What is 60s?

03:05I had just one more question.

03:07Who shops here?

03:09Everyone.

03:10Campbelltown's a stopping place for a lot of people getting off the boat, maybe heading

03:17to Hobart, or Hobart heading to the boat, or Launceston, vice versa, travelling around.

03:22So we've got a really great place here in Campbelltown with some food shops, park, toilets, a couple

03:29of vintage shops here.

03:32And so I get a wide range of people stopping through here, hence why I've got such a wide

03:38range of vintage collectibles in here.

03:41A lot of people just come through just for the experience of, you know, looking at old

03:47things, put a smile on their face, and things like that.

03:50So, you know, I love me, I love me job.

03:53It's not really a job really, because, you know, you're not really working when you're

03:57doing something you love.

03:58I'm so proud of you.

03:59Yeah.

04:00He's done well.

04:01Yeah, he's done well.

04:02He's done well.

04:03Yeah.

04:04He's done well.

04:05No.

04:06Yeah, he's done well.

04:07Yeah.

04:08And he's done well.

04:09Yeah.

04:10I'm done well.

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