PLACE REPRESENTED: Tokyo (specifically Tokyo Tower) , Japan
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: Tokyo Tower specifically celebrated on this wall ornament. Tokyo Tower is a communications and observation tower and the second-tallest structure in Japan. I assume the mountain in the background is Mount Takao.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 16cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Pataua , New Zealand
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: A simple wall ornament (in pokerwork / pyrography) from Pataua, in the north of New Zealand, a popular area for sea gulls and surfing. Wherever you find seagulls you find surfers it seems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pataua_North
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: New Zealand probably
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 9cm x 12.5cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Australia
ITEM: Souvenir Spoon Rack NOTES: A small souvenir spoon rack in the shape of Australia. Souvenir spoons, once collected by everyone, are now piled deep in trays at op shops. Still, they can be great (short) talking pieces, preferably inserted into a dip.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1990s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: Australia
MANUFACTURER: Tom’s Timber Products
DIMENSIONS: 36cm x 28cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Holland
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: A small wall ornament with a hand painted farmhouse, some pyrography lettering, and, naturally enough, a windmill (windmills or clogs, clogs or windmills). This is especially as the sails on the windmill turn!
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 9.5cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Portschach , Austria
ITEM: Wall Ornament NOTES: Pörtschach am Wörthersee is a municipality in Carinthia, located in southern Austria. It is on the northern shore of Lake Wörth, about 14 kilometres (west of the Carinthian capital Klagenfurt) and is Alpine in nature. All those things are captured on this wall plaque.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: wood , plastic
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 20.5cm x 16cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Dubrovnik , Croatia
ITEM: Wall Ornament / Plate
NOTES: A beautifully glazed steel wall plate celebrating Dubrovnik and suitably old looking like Dubrovnik itself. Beautiful, like Dubrovnik itself.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: steel (enamel decoration on metal)
MADE IN: Croatia
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 31cm diameter
PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA – Wall Tile
PLACE REPRESENTED: Perth, Western Australia , Australia
ITEM: Wall Tile
NOTES: There certainly are a lot of wineries in and around Perth and, not surprisingly, a lot of Continental European migrants.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1990s
MADE FROM: tile
MADE IN: Australia (probably)
MANUFACTURER: Kylee (signed)
DIMENSIONS: 15.5cm x 15.5cm
EASTER ISLAND, CHILE – Wall Tile
PLACE REPRESENTED: Easter Island , Chile
ITEM: Wall Tile
NOTES: Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as it is known to its Polynesian locals is a Chilean Island about 3500 km west of Chile. It is most famous for its nearly 1000 large stone monumental statues, called Moai locally or "Easter Island Heads".
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: tile
MADE IN: Argentina
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 15cm x 15cm
LOVRAN, CROATIA – Wall Ornament
PLACE REPRESENTED: Lovran , Croatia
ITEM: Wall Plate
NOTES: A beautifully vivid wall plate with pyrography etching and a nice colour print of the harbour in Lovran, Croatia. It looks so simple and relaxing.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1973
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: Croatia (I assume)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 20cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Adelaide, South Australia , Australia
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: A small wall ornament depicting St Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral or St Peter’s Anglican Cathedral or, perhaps, another denomination. Well, Adelaide is known as the “City Of Churches”. The Adelaide tram at the front is less ambiguous.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: resin
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 11cm x 8cm