Category Archives: Australia

QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA – Wall Ornament

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Queensland , Australia

ITEM: Wall Ornament

NOTES: “I got a boot out of Queensland”. I’m sure you did. Getting a boot can be good or bad, depending who you ask, though it’s generally meant to be favourable. A souvenir of the “insert place name here” variety, this boot is usually used for ‘cowboy country” type places. So, in that respect it does apply to Queensland, at least inland and the outback.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN: unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 13.5cm across x 16.6cm high

GOLD COAST (specifically Surfers Paradise), QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA – Tea Pot

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Gold Coast (specifically Surfers Paradise), Queensland, Australia

ITEM: Tea Pot

NOTES: A tea pot celebrating the famous suburb of Queensland’s beach city the Gold Coast. The suburb is at the heart of the Gold Coast and was (and perhaps still is), for many years, the public face of the Gold Coast and, perhaps, encapsulates all the good and the bad of the suburb. This, tea pot, hand made and colourful is for the upmarket tourists who go to Surfers.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2002

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN: Australia

MANUFACTURER: Jazz (hand made)

DIMENSIONS: 22cm (from spout tip to handle end), 12cm high, 14cm wide, 6.5cd diameter hole for lid.

HERVEY BAY, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA – Coffee Mug

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Hervey Bay (specifically Pialba), Queensland , Australia

ITEM: Coffee Mug

NOTES: Pialba is a coastal town and central business suburb of Hervey Bay, Shown is the Urangan Pier (which is actually in Urangan … though much of a muchness). The Hervey Bay railway line from Maryborough to Pialba opened in 1896 and was used to transport harvested sugarcane to the Maryborough Sugar Mill in addition to daily passenger trains. The extension to Urangan and the Urangan Pier ( 1107 metres) opened in 1913 and was used for the transfer of cargo between rail and ships. It was closed in 1985, and 239 metres of it was demolished, but, due to public outcry, 868 metres of the pier was left. The photograph on the mug is taken from the end of the (then railroad) pier looking back to the mainland.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: plastic

MADE IN: Australia

MANUFACTURER: Patina

DIMENSIONS: 11cm high x 7.5cm diameter

     

WARWICK, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA – Cap

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Warwick, Queensland , Australia

ITEM: Cap

NOTES: A cap from Warwick in Queensland’s southwest saying “Happy Birthday” to Warwick’s City Band … 125 years! I didn’t even know Warwick had a city band, or were a city …and I have spent much time in Warwick.

The band is the oldest continuously serving band in Australia, playing since 1866. https://www.facebook.com/Warwick-City-Band-118568308195706/

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1991

MADE FROM: 65% polyester , 35% nylon

MADE IN: China

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: One Size Fits All

TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA – Drink Tray

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30PLACE REPRESENTED: Tasmania , Australia

ITEM: Drink Tray (is it drink tray or drinks tray?)

NOTES: A beautiful stainless steel drinks tray depicting all the sites of Tasmania, as they were circa 1965 (can’t be before the Tasman Bridge, bottom left, was completed in 1964). This drinks tray is exactly the same as another I have posted except King’s Bridge at Launceston has been replaced by Prince’s Square Fountain at Launceston. No idea why.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s

MADE FROM: stainless steel

MADE IN: Japan

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 28cm

     

SYDNEY (specifically Sydney Tower), NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA – Vase

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Sydney (specifically the Sydney Tower), New South Wales , Australia

ITEM: Vase

NOTES: A small vase depicting the Sydney Tower, the second tallest observation tower in the Southern Hemisphere, which opened in 1981. The Sky Tower in Auckland is taller.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN: unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 10cm tall

MOUNT ISA, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA – Cup

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Mt Isa, Queensland , Australia

ITEM: Cup

NOTES: A plastic cup celebrating the heart of lead, silver, copper and zinc mining in Australia. The cup certainly doesn’t try to hide the industrial nature of a mining town in Queensland’s west … the only surprise is it’s made of plastic.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970

MADE FROM: Plastic

MADE IN: Hong Kong

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 10cm high , 8.5cm diameter

     

 

MACKAY, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA – Thermometer

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Mackay, Queensland , Australia

ITEM: Thermometer

NOTES: I’m not sure why there is a nautical theme here (apart from the obvious “buy souvenirs in bulk and write town name here” aspect). Mackay is in central or northern Queensland (depending on who you ask) coast, though not a port town. The CBD of Mackay is on the Pioneer River as it empties into the ocean, It has Harbour Beach, a marina, and Bluewater Lagoon (a city water park) all of which still don’t really relate to the deep sea seafaring themes depicted (though design is quite good – a ships wheel and anchor combined with a sailing ship).

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: steel

MADE IN: unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 14cm across x 15cm high

DARWIN, NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA – Tray

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Darwin, Northern Territory , Australia

ITEM: Tray

NOTES: A tray showing the various sites of Australia’s wild north capital, Darwin. This is from the late 1960s or early 1970s and not much has changed since. Just kidding. In any event I leave it to Darwinians to tell me if this was before or after the devastating Cyclone Tracy which decimated Darwin in December 1974.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s

MADE FROM: steel

MADE IN: unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 28cm diameter