Category Archives: Victoria

MILDURA, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA – Coffee Mug

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Mildura, Victoria , Australia

ITEM: Coffee Mug

NOTES: Mildura is on the Murray river in the northwest of Victoria. It is called Victoria’s Food Bowl and is famous for its citrus fruits (especially oranges), grapes (depicted on the mug), old paddlesteamers (depicted on the mug) and Calabrian mafia (not depicted on the mug).

Great colours on the print though it should be on the other side of the mug. Assuming most people are right handed when using the mug the image faces you … it should face out.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN: unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 9cm high, 8.5cm diameter

BALLARAT VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA – Wall Ornament

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Ballarat (specifically Sovereign Hill), Victoria , Australia

ITEM: Wall Ornament

NOTES: A small wall plate depicting Sovereign Hill that’s “not for use for serving food”.

Sovereign Hill is a 25-hectare open-air museum in Golden Point, a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria which depicts Ballarat’s first ten years after the discovery of gold there in 1851. The site comprises over 60 historically recreated buildings and was opened in 1970.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN: Japan

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 10cm diameter

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA – Salt and Pepper Shakers

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Melbourne, Victoria , Australia

ITEM: Salt and Pepper Shakers

NOTES: Rustic colonial style pottery depicting three sites from Melbourne: Flinders Street Station, the trams, and Captain Cooks cottage (which Captain Cook never lived in, well, not in Australia – it was brought to Melbourne in 1934 from England.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN: unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 5.5cm diameter x 6cm (each)

BATHURST, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA – Dish

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Bathurst (specifically the Soldier’s Memorial on King’s Parade), Victoria , Australia

ITEM: Dish

NOTES: The Soldiers’ Memorial (built 1909) at King’s Parade, Bathurst to remember those who fought in the Boer War. It’s still there as most Australian memorials are … one of the benefits of not being over run by other countries every few decades.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1930s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN: England

MANUFACTURER: E. Webb & Co (made by Grimwade’s)

DIMENSIONS: 15.5cm diameter

MILDURA, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA – Side Plate

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Mildura Victoria - Municipal Chambers - Display Plate (1)  Mildura Victoria - Municipal Chambers - Display Plate (2)

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

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA – Ornament

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Melbourne - Mini Clog - Ceramic (4)

PLACE REPRESENTED: Melbourne, Victoria , Australia

ITEM: Ceramic clog

NOTES: As far as I know the Melbournians are not famous for clogs and the Dutch did not settle Melbourne (even Dutch explorer Abel Tasman didn’t make it to Melbourne) so, I assume, the ceramic clog factory was looking to move a few ceramic clogs and contacted the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Australia’s second most populous city, and said, “We can do you a deal on some souvenir clogs” …

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1930s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN:  Germany

MANUFACTURER: Victoria

DIMENSIONS: 9cm long x 4cm high x 4cm wide

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