PLACE REPRESENTED: Lovran , Croatia
ITEM: Wall ornament
NOTES: I love these things. Handmade with a lot of detail and materials. Not bad for a postcard stuck to a piece of wood and then decorated. Very evocative, despite the fact the shells probably didn’t even come from the area depicted.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1994
MADE FROM: wood , shell
MADE IN: Croatia
MANUFACTURER: Handmade
DIMENSIONS: 30cm long , 10cm high
A really nice piece, the ‘3D’ addition of shells reminds me of similar craft souvenirs from the Gold Coast in the 1970s. I recall my favourite being a snow globe with slow moving liquid ‘water’ with a shark and a diver in it.
now that deserves to be on this site!