Category Archives: Australia

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – Ashtray

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Harbour Bridge, Sydney , Australia

ITEM: Ashtray

NOTES: Whenever you put a city on a ashtray there will be analogical jokes made about the city and the ashtray … and Sydney is an easy target. The ashtray is made of a lead like steel probably mined in Australia before being sent to Japan to be manufactured into this trinket which is then sent back to Australia for sale.  It’s not the first time the Japanese sent manufactured steel back to Australia.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s

MADE FROM: steel

MADE IN:  Japan

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 15cm across , 11cm high

NAMBOUR, AUSTRALIA – Salt & Pepper Shakers

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Sunshine Plantation, Nambour , Australia

ITEM: Salt & Pepper Shakers

NOTES: Ahhh, the Sunshine Plantation on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, home of the Big Pineapple. One of Australia’s most well known and best “big fruits”.

For more on the Big Pineapple: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Pineapple

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN:  unknown.

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 9cm high , 5cm wide each

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA – Key Chain

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Brisbane, Queensland , Australia

ITEM: Key Chain

NOTES: Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, on five cards – ten pictures in all. Half the pictures are of animals or the nearby surf and sin fun beach city of Surfers Paradise. Surely Brisbane has more than that? In any event Brisbane doesn’t look much like what’s on the cards anyway, anymore. Develop, develop, develop.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s

MADE FROM: Plastic

MADE IN: unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 12.5cm including chain (6cm without)  x 3.5cm wide