PLACE REPRESENTED: Florida , USA
ITEM: Salt & Pepper Shakers
NOTES: Alligators and Florida ….go together like salt and pepper?
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: plastic
MADE IN: Hong Kong
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 7cm high , 8cm wide
PLACE REPRESENTED: Split , Croatia
ITEM: Ornament
NOTES: A minature beer mug. Wine is more porpular in Split (in Dalmatia) and Croatia generally but beer is drunken (by mugs) though not normally from mugs. Regardless, most places seem to have their town depicted on these beer mug trinkets.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2004
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: Croatia (probably)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 6cm high , 5cm wide
PLACE REPRESENTED: Cooma, New South Wales , Australia
ITEM: ornament
NOTES: A wooden statuette of a boat. This is a beautifully detailed travel trinket where the sails even move! But the trinket seems to have been made from left overs from other souvenirs. The boats hull is a Dutch clog (confirmed by the windmill depictions), the sails seem to resemble that of Spanish galleons, the flag on the main mast (I talk the salty sea dog talk) is Dutch and there is a little sticker that says Cooma, NSW.
Waste not , want not, huh?
Cooma is no where near the coast either so I’m not sure about the whole boat choice.
As far as I know neither the Dutch nor the Spanish colonised Cooma, but I wouldn’t put it past them.
Cooma, though, did become the headquarters of the Snowy Mountains Scheme (a hydroelectricity , irrigation, and dam complex that is the largest engineering project ever undertaken in Australia taking some 25 years to complete) during the 1950s and 1960s. The employment of workers was from 32 (mostly European) countries so, perhaps, this explains the cultural potpourri of this trinket.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 15cm high , 6cm long
PLACE REPRESENTED: Arta Terme , Italy
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: A mass produced wooden artifact – insert town name at bottom.
Arta Terme is a province in far north western Italy which explains the slightly alpine look in the trinket. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arta_Terme
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 8cm across , 18cm high
PLACE REPRESENTED: Maroochydore , Australia
ITEM: An Egg Cup.
NOTES: Simple but at least it seems to be a piece of local ceramic handiwork. But what is it? A ring holder or nic nac bowl?
No, it’s a very shallow egg cup.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: glass
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 8cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Kresno , Indonesia
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: A relief on a a small picture stand for hanging or sitting.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1990s
MADE FROM: wood , steel
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 13cm high , 7cm across
PLACE REPRESENTED: Tasmania , Australia
ITEM: Small Display Plate
NOTES: A small display plate depicting Tasmania, a large island off the coast of a larger island.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: Japan
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 10cm x 12.5cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: St Louis , Missouri, USA
ITEM: Display Plate
NOTES: Great detail. The Japanese are good at this type of stuff. This is the home of Chuck Berry, Philis Diller, Vincent Price, David Rasche, James Franciscus, Shelley Winters – none of whom are on the plate.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1989
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: Japan
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 20cm diameter
ITEM: Bottle Opener
NOTES: Bottle opener on a key ring … just like the ones you find all over the world’s largest sand island, Fraser Island, after the weekend warriors have finished drinking and carving up the sand in their four wheel drives.
The coloured sands on Fraser Island are examples of where the sand has been stained over thousands of years due to the sand conglomerating with clay.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): unknown
MADE FROM: steel
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: Collectors World
DIMENSIONS: 11cm long
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
