PLACE REPRESENTED: Hong Kong , China
ITEM: Business Card Holder
NOTES: A business card holder depicting Hong Kong. Very obvious. This shiny, stel business card holder is very flashy, very crisp, much like a lot of Hong Kong. It depicts the corporate Hong Kong not the traditional Hong Kong. Or is that the traditional Hong Kong?
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: steel
MADE IN: Hong Kong (probably)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 9.5cm long x 2cm deep x 7cm high
PLACE REPRESENTED: Canada
ITEM: Cap
NOTES: The very familiar red cap with the red maple leaf. The “Canada” sown in is probably superfluous.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: polyester
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: adult Adjustable size.
PLACE REPRESENTED: New Zealand
ITEM: Cap
NOTES: New Zealand in black and with the silver fern.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: ?cotton?
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: adult Adjustable size.
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
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: Cambodia
ITEM: Key Ring
NOTES: A key ring bottle opener and nail clipper! Perfect for travelling. The handle depicts the Angkor Wat temple with Vishnu is one of the Hundu deities hovering, perhaps Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu, or Maheshvara?
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: Steel
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 11cm long (including chain) x 43 across (at widest)
PLACE REPRESENTED: Vietnam
ITEM: Cap
NOTES: A green military style cap from Vietnam
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: cotton
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: head size
PLACE REPRESENTED: Emerald, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Container
NOTES: Small container adorned by Queensland’s green tree frog. Mass produced this seems to be a case of “insert town name here”. Still, the frog is cute.
Emerald is a town in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia about 883 km NW of Brisbane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald,_Queensland
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: Hard resin
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 8cm long x 5.5cm high x 6cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Scotland
ITEM: Cap
NOTES: Self explanatory, though, because I’m adverse to brevity I’ll mention the flag, or rather, quote someone else: “The Flag of Scotland is a white X-shaped cross, which represents the cross of the patron saint of Scotland, Saint Andrew on a blue sky. The flag is called the Saltire or the Saint Andrew’s Cross”. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Scotland
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: cotton
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: adult adjustable size.
PLACE REPRESENTED: Fremantle, Western Australia , Australia
ITEM: Wall ornament
NOTES: A vivid wall ornament (or trivet) which captures the bright colours of a sunny beach going Australia. Kitschy and contemporary but quite nice … just like Fremantle, perhaps.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: Tile
MADE IN: Australia
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 15.5cm x 15.5cm