SAUDA, NORWAY – Wall Ornament

Sauda Kirke - Wood Display Plate (1) PLACE REPRESENTED: Sauda, Norway.

ITEM: Wall Ornament

NOTES: Kirke is Norwegian for Church. This church is located in the Sauda municipality of the Rogaland area of Norway (an area with low unemployment and high fertility apparently). Which church in the Sauda area this is I don’t know. They have a few and they are big, wooden and white.

http://haugen.jalbum.net/Kirker%20i%20Norge/kirkefoto/Kirker%20i%20Rogaland/index.html

This is remote Norway and the hand crafted wood burnt etching (pyrography) of the church is beautifully rustic.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s

MADE FROM: wood

MADE IN:  unknown (probably locally)

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 19.5cm  x 19.5cm

Sauda Kirke - Wood Display Plate (2)

NORWAY – Ornament

Norway - Minature Viking Boat - steel (1)ITEM: A Viking boat in steel.

NOTES: “Norge” equals Norway in Norwegian.

Norway and Vikings ….what else? This should have been a Viking boat in wood but it’s a nice little steel trinket that could double up as a small paperweight.

It won’t float, that’s for sure.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: steel (pewter tin I think)

MADE IN:  Norway

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 7.5cm long x 6.5cm high

Norway - Minature Viking Boat - steel (4)                                           Norway - Minature Viking Boat - steel (2)