PLACE REPRESENTED: Alaska , USA
ITEM: Trivet
NOTES: A trivet or wall tile this is a nice modernist take on usual Alaskan themes of mountain, snow and moose.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1990s
MADE FROM: tile
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 15.5cm x 15.5cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Mt Maunganui, Tauranga , New Zealand
ITEM: Trivet
NOTES: Mount Maunganui is a town in the Bay of Plenty, located on a peninsula just to the north of Tauranga, at the top of the North Island of New Zealand. The Mount was independent from Tauranga until the completion of the Tauranga Harbour Bridge in 1988. Phil Rudd, the former drummer for AC/DC lives in Tauranga …but only since the 80s.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: Steel
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 13.5cm x 13.5xm .
PLACE REPRESENTED: Amersham (specifically the Parish Church of St Mary’s), England
ITEM: Trivet
NOTES: Amersham (population 14000) is in the south east of England. St Mary’s Church is a Church of England church (formerly Catholic) built in the 13th century and located in Old Amersham. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amersham
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: plastic
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 15.5cm diamter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Alaska , USA
ITEM: Trivet
NOTES: A nicely detailed trivet with Alaskan grizzly bears and an in danger salmon depicted.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 15cm x 15cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Chile
ITEM: Trivet
NOTES: Simple and vivid. A painted tin relief glued to a piece of masonite. The images depicted, the map of Chile, the Cathedral of Chillan (with monumental cross in memory of the victims of the earthquake in January 1939 that devastated the city of Chillan), the Parinacota volcano, the Chilean Huaso or baqueano (cowboy), the native Chilean in traditional dress are vivid. And quite appropriately, so are the materials, copper tin and wood … two of the largest industries in chile: copper mining and forestry.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: steel , wood
MADE IN: Chile probably
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 19cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Hudson, New Hampshire , USA
ITEM: Trivet
NOTES: Hudson, New Hampshire on the Merrimack River is famous for its crabs … or rather crab meals. You can put a pot of that on this handy trivet.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1990s
MADE FROM: tile, wood
MADE IN: USA
MANUFACTURER: Besheer Art Tile
DIMENSIONS: 15cm x , 15cm.
PLACE REPRESENTED: Porto , Portugal
ITEM: Trivet
NOTES: A trivet made from a ceramic tile sitting in cork.
Celebrated is the town of Porto, Portugal’s second biggest city, on the river, Douro. In the background is the Dom Luís I Bridge, a double-decked metal arch bridge that spans the Douro River between the cities of Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia. Nice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: ceramic material , cork .
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 15cm x 15cm (tile, 19cm x 19cm all up).
PLACE REPRESENTED: Market Drayton, Shropshire, England
ITEM: Trivet
NOTES: Nice trivet that can also be a display. A buttercross, also known as butter cross, is a type of market cross associated with English market towns and dating from medieval times. The one depicted is in Market Drayton, in the country of Shropshire, England. Northern Shropshire is famous for its cheeses and dairy products, hence the market (or Buttercross) in the line drawing, which was built in 1824. The town once had a court of ‘pied poudre’; here litigants could settle their differences immediately they reached market – in other words, while they still had dusty (or powdered) feet.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: ceramic material, cork (base)
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 15cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Antrim Coast , Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann)
ITEM: Tea Pot Stand or Rest
NOTES: I know it’s a “tea pot stand” because it’s shaped like a tea pot and has “tea pot stand” written on it.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: cork
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 21cm across
