PLACE REPRESENTED: Chile
ITEM: Coasters
NOTES: The copper tin industry in Chile is large and appears in all sorts of souvenirs. Here various Chilean activities and institutions are pressed into copper tin and placed onto wood (another big industry). This is quite effective and local.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: copper tin , wood
MADE IN: Chile (I assume)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 9cm x 9cm (each coaster)
PLACE REPRESENTED: Valparaiso, Chile
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: A vivid little painted print in relief of Valparaiso, Chile looking down to the harbour from the hillside districts. Valparaíso a once major port, and a home for European immigrants, was known as “Little San Francisco” and “The Jewel of the Pacific”. Now it is is known for its tourism, educational institutions, and supportive environment for artists (which this simple but effective ornament suggests). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valpara%C3%ADso
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: wood, paper
MADE IN: Chile (no doubt)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 19cm x 7cm
EASTER ISLAND, CHILE – Wall Tile
PLACE REPRESENTED: Easter Island , Chile
ITEM: Wall Tile
NOTES: Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as it is known to its Polynesian locals is a Chilean Island about 3500 km west of Chile. It is most famous for its nearly 1000 large stone monumental statues, called Moai locally or "Easter Island Heads".
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: tile
MADE IN: Argentina
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 15cm x 15cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Chile
ITEM: Trivet
NOTES: Simple and vivid. A painted tin relief glued to a piece of masonite. The images depicted, the map of Chile, the Cathedral of Chillan (with monumental cross in memory of the victims of the earthquake in January 1939 that devastated the city of Chillan), the Parinacota volcano, the Chilean Huaso or baqueano (cowboy), the native Chilean in traditional dress are vivid. And quite appropriately, so are the materials, copper tin and wood … two of the largest industries in chile: copper mining and forestry.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: steel , wood
MADE IN: Chile probably
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 19cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Chile
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: A nice hand crafted (partially) wall ornament from Chile, in copper, naturally enough. Copper mining was (is) one of the biggest industries in Chile.
“Recuerdo de Chile” means “A Remembrance of Chile”.
Simple, effective and stylish.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: Copper
MADE IN: unknown (probably Chile)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 13cm diameter