PLACE REPRESENTED: Melbourne, Victoria , Australia
ITEM: Salt and Pepper Shakers
NOTES: Rustic colonial style pottery depicting three sites from Melbourne: Flinders Street Station, the trams, and Captain Cooks cottage (which Captain Cook never lived in, well, not in Australia – it was brought to Melbourne in 1934 from England.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 5.5cm diameter x 6cm (each)
PLACE REPRESENTED: Victoria , Australia
ITEM: Ashtray
NOTES: Colourful and shiny …err, before use. Just like Victoria?
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: Japan
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 10cm x , 10cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Bathurst (specifically the Soldier’s Memorial on King’s Parade), Victoria , Australia
ITEM: Dish
NOTES: The Soldiers’ Memorial (built 1909) at King’s Parade, Bathurst to remember those who fought in the Boer War. It’s still there as most Australian memorials are … one of the benefits of not being over run by other countries every few decades.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1930s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: England
MANUFACTURER: E. Webb & Co (made by Grimwade’s)
DIMENSIONS: 15.5cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Mildura, Victoria , Australia
ITEM: Side Plate
NOTES: A small side plate depicting the Municipal Chambers of Mildura in Victoria. I think the townscape hasn’t changed since the plate was made.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1950s
MADE FROM: Bone China
MADE IN: England
MANUFACTURER: Royal Grafton
DIMENSIONS: 13cm x 13cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Melbourne, Victoria , Australia
ITEM: Ceramic clog
NOTES: As far as I know the Melbournians are not famous for clogs and the Dutch did not settle Melbourne (even Dutch explorer Abel Tasman didn’t make it to Melbourne) so, I assume, the ceramic clog factory was looking to move a few ceramic clogs and contacted the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Australia’s second most populous city, and said, “We can do you a deal on some souvenir clogs” …
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1930s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: Germany
MANUFACTURER: Victoria
DIMENSIONS: 9cm long x 4cm high x 4cm wide
PLACE REPRESENTED: Melbourne, Victoria , Australia
ITEM: Nic Nac Dish
NOTES: All the sites of Melbourne in (on) melamine. There is more to Melbourne. Where are the hipsters?
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: plastic (melamine)
MADE IN: Australia
MANUFACTURER: Ashdene
DIMENSIONS: 21cm x 14cm