PLACE REPRESENTED: Boreen Point, Queensland , Australia

ITEM: Dinner Bell

NOTES: A cute, delightfully retro kitsch dinner bell. Made in Japan (it’s printed clearly on the inside) for the Australian market (what’s more Australian than a koala, or err a kangaroo?) all you had to do was insert a locality name and put it on shelf for sale. At least, the craftsmanship allowed for the place name to be written on in paint. By the 70s this would be plastic and a sticker would be used. The population of Boreen Point is 264 today, who knows how many people lived there in the 1960s, but I suspect the koalas outnumbered them. It is a locality north of Tewantin on the Sunshine Coast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreen_Point,_Queensland

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN:  Japan

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 11.5cm high x 6cm diameter

PLACE REPRESENTED: Queensland , Australia

ITEM: A dinner bell.

NOTES: A small ceramic dinner bell for “Queensland: The Sunshine State”.

I can hear it now, “Ring a ling, tea is served”. No, more like, “Ring a ding, your farking shout mate!”

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN: Taiwan

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 5cm diameter around bottom , 9cm high