PLACE REPRESENTED: Croatia
ITEM: Cap
NOTES: The familiar red and white Croatian checkerboard on a cap.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2005
MADE FROM: cotton
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: head size
CROATIA – Cap
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HOLLAND – Ornament
PLACE REPRESENTED: Holland
ITEM: Ornamental Minature
NOTES: A beautiful detailed boat, err clog. The Dutch are famous for their clogs and their seafaring trade (if that’s what you call it) so why not combine the two? The result: the clog boat! Paint some windmills on the clog, err hull, throw in some flags and you have a perfect Dutch tourist trinket.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: wood , paper
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 12cm long x 14cm high x 5cm wide
VENICE, ITALY – Wall Plate
PLACE REPRESENTED: Venice , Italy
ITEM: Display Plate
NOTES: A well detailed plate depicting Venice’s St Mark’s Square surrounded by pictures of all the major historical towns of Italy. This is beautifully detailed. Perhaps the extra detail is a result of it being fashioned and made in Italy?
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: Porcelain
MADE IN: Italy
MANUFACTURER: Fontebasso
DIMENSIONS: 19cm diameter
ISLE OF WIGHT, ENGLAND – Ornament
PLACE REPRESENTED: Isle of Wight , England
ITEM: A very small ceramic urn
NOTES: I’m not sure why the use of the urn form. The Romans hung out there for quiet some time so I assume the urn shape could be a reference to that. Also, this is not the normal coat of arms for the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight recieved its more common coat of arms in 1938 so this is pre that. I’m not sure of the significance of the boat but the Isle of Wight is, errr, an island located in the English Channel (the largest in England), so, boats are a necessity.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1930s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: Czechoslovakia
MANUFACTURER: ‘Victoria’ Schmidt & Company
DIMENSIONS: 7cm high
MILDURA, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA – Side Plate
PLACE REPRESENTED: Mildura, Victoria , Australia
ITEM: Side Plate
NOTES: A small side plate depicting the Municipal Chambers of Mildura in Victoria. I think the townscape hasn’t changed since the plate was made.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1950s
MADE FROM: Bone China
MADE IN: England
MANUFACTURER: Royal Grafton
DIMENSIONS: 13cm x 13cm
NOOSA HEADS, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA – Mugs
PLACE REPRESENTED: Noosa Heads, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Mugs
NOTES: Noosa Heads on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland is a town popular with beach types, especially discerning ones. This pair of vividly coloured mugs with the first “o” in Noosa depicting the sun sums up sunny, happy Noosa days. Sunshine is so central that there is even a sun on the inside of the cup.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1990s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 7cm diameter x 10.5cm high
CROATIA – Ornament
PLACE REPRESENTED: Croatia
ITEM: Ornament
NOTES: I assume this is a sokol (falcon) which is the national bird of Croatia … or, if it isn’t, it should be. There are buildings, songs, poems, foods, folkloric groups and all sorts of other things named after it.
And, though not identified as croatian as such this was bought there, somewhere around Lovran or Rijeka I recall.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1973
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: Yugoslavia (as it then was) (probably handmade)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 21cm high , 15cm long
NEW ZEALAND – Vase
PLACE REPRESENTED: New Zealand
ITEM: Vase
NOTES: A vase with the cute Kiwi bird depicted.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: glass
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 18cm high x 5.5cm diameter base x 3cm diameter opening at the top.
CROATIA – Ornament
PLACE REPRESENTED: Croatia
ITEM: Ornamental minature.
NOTES: A minature traditional well, or bunar, in wood. Traditional working wells are still found all over Croatia. Every little rural house has one. This one is elaborate with a canopy and a bucket that goes up and down.
Okay, there is no place name depicted anywhere but it was bought there, around Lovran, I think.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1973
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: (the then) Yugoslavia
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 11cm high
SAUDA, NORWAY – Wall Ornament
PLACE REPRESENTED: Sauda, Norway.
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: Kirke is Norwegian for Church. This church is located in the Sauda municipality of the Rogaland area of Norway (an area with low unemployment and high fertility apparently). Which church in the Sauda area this is I don’t know. They have a few and they are big, wooden and white.
http://haugen.jalbum.net/Kirker%20i%20Norge/kirkefoto/Kirker%20i%20Rogaland/index.html
This is remote Norway and the hand crafted wood burnt etching (pyrography) of the church is beautifully rustic.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: unknown (probably locally)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 19.5cm x 19.5cm
