PLACE REPRESENTED: Tasmania , Australia
ITEM: Nic Nac Dish
NOTES: Tasmania, the “holiday State”, famous for apples and yachts and ferries travelling north at weird angles it seems.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 9.5cm x 9.5cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Cherbourg, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Mug
NOTES: The platinum jubilee (75 years) for Cherbourg. The town, formerly known as Barambah, was founded as a settlement for indigenous Australians in 1900 by the Salvation Army (basically a reservation to promote, intentionally or not, segregation). In 1905 its administration was passed to the Queensland government (some historical documents refer to the 1904). Not sure about “The Voice” but it is definitely, much like with Native Americans, treaty time (well it should have happened a hundred years ago) with control and wealth of the assets below the earth and on the land.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1979
MADE FROM: pottery
MADE IN: Australia
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 9.5cm tall x 6.5cm diameter opening
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: Australia
ITEM: Humourous Ornament
NOTES: Typical Australian humour. Apparently. Well it’s not Barry Humphries but it is amusing. The only problem is, with the exception of Melbourne the weather is pretty consistent. Where it’s rainy, it rains all the time. Where it’s dry, it’s dry all the time ….
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 15cm x 20cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Yandina (specifically The Ginger Factory), Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Tray
NOTES: Every kid in the 1980s had to go visit the Ginger Factory at Yandina, didn’t they? Well, every kid in south east Queensland had to. It was much better than the box factory from The Simpsons as they had activities, a train ride and err ginger products! https://www.gingerfactory.com.au/
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: bamboo
MADE IN: Taiwan
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 30.5cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: “I got a boot out of Queensland”. I’m sure you did. Getting a boot can be good or bad, depending who you ask, though it’s generally meant to be favourable. A souvenir of the “insert place name here” variety, this boot is usually used for ‘cowboy country” type places. So, in that respect it does apply to Queensland, at least inland and the outback.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 13.5cm across x 16.6cm high
PLACE REPRESENTED: Gold Coast (specifically Surfers Paradise), Queensland, Australia
ITEM: Tea Pot
NOTES: A tea pot celebrating the famous suburb of Queensland’s beach city the Gold Coast. The suburb is at the heart of the Gold Coast and was (and perhaps still is), for many years, the public face of the Gold Coast and, perhaps, encapsulates all the good and the bad of the suburb. This, tea pot, hand made and colourful is for the upmarket tourists who go to Surfers.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2002
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: Australia
MANUFACTURER: Jazz (hand made)
DIMENSIONS: 22cm (from spout tip to handle end), 12cm high, 14cm wide, 6.5cd diameter hole for lid.
PLACE REPRESENTED: Norfolk Island , Australia
ITEM: Bud Vase
NOTES: A large bud vase (in the shape of a T Shirt!) depicting the flora of Norfolk Island
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 6.5cm tall x 6.5cm across
PLACE REPRESENTED: Hervey Bay (specifically Pialba), Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Coffee Mug
NOTES: Pialba is a coastal town and central business suburb of Hervey Bay, Shown is the Urangan Pier (which is actually in Urangan … though much of a muchness). The Hervey Bay railway line from Maryborough to Pialba opened in 1896 and was used to transport harvested sugarcane to the Maryborough Sugar Mill in addition to daily passenger trains. The extension to Urangan and the Urangan Pier ( 1107 metres) opened in 1913 and was used for the transfer of cargo between rail and ships. It was closed in 1985, and 239 metres of it was demolished, but, due to public outcry, 868 metres of the pier was left. The photograph on the mug is taken from the end of the (then railroad) pier looking back to the mainland.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: plastic
MADE IN: Australia
MANUFACTURER: Patina
DIMENSIONS: 11cm high x 7.5cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Warwick, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Cap
NOTES: A cap from Warwick in Queensland’s southwest saying “Happy Birthday” to Warwick’s City Band … 125 years! I didn’t even know Warwick had a city band, or were a city …and I have spent much time in Warwick.
The band is the oldest continuously serving band in Australia, playing since 1866. https://www.facebook.com/Warwick-City-Band-118568308195706/
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1991
MADE FROM: 65% polyester , 35% nylon
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: One Size Fits All
