PLACE REPRESENTED: Surat, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Mug NOTES: Surat, Queensland … population 426 … country Queensland, remote Queensland, small town Queensland. So small the pictures on the mug are generic ones from the surrounding region.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1990s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 13cm wide x 10cm high x 8cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Sydney, New South Wales , Australia
ITEM: Tray
NOTES: A bamboo tray (which could double as a wall ornament) with a vivid printed Sydney harbour depicting the Harbour Bridge and, of course, the Sydney Opera House.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: bamboo
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 27.5cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Cairns, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Small Dish
NOTES: A tear drop or fish shaped dish showing Cairns in North Queensland. This is not a reproduced photograph or line drawing but an artists impression of Cairns at the time. It is small but quite stunning.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1950s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 23cm long x 12cm wide x 2.5cm deep
PLACE REPRESENTED: Queensland (specifically North Queensland) , Australia
ITEM: Fan
NOTES: Beautifully kitsch plastic souvenir fans from the 60s or early 70s. The fans fold in on themselves or open up.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: plastic
MADE IN: Hong Kong (It’s written on the red bit at the bottom)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 18cm tall , 3.5cm wide (when folded up) 25cm when opened up
PLACE REPRESENTED: Australia
ITEM: Mug
NOTES: Birds of Australia collection on mugs. Here the famous Rainbow Lorikeet gets a showing. Painted by Natalie Jane Parker.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2017
MADE FROM: China
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: Ashdene
DIMENSIONS: 10cm tall x 8cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Kuranda, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: A large wood map of Australia (sorry, no Tasmania) depicting the Kuranda scenic railway train around Kuranda, located on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland, Australia (about 25 km from Cairns). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuranda,_Queensland
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 36cm across x 28cm wide
PLACE REPRESENTED: Australia
ITEM: Stuffed Animal
NOTES: The famous flying fox. I remember looking up into the night sky (in inner city Brisbane) and seeing hundreds of these cute critters flying from A to B. You don’t see that anymore. Though you still get stray ones attacking the local mango trees
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2017
MADE FROM: material
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: caaustralia
DIMENSIONS: 56cm wingspan, 24cm length.
PLACE REPRESENTED: Nambour (specifically the Sunshine Plantation), Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Fan
NOTES: Beautifully kitsch plastic souvenir fans from the 60s or early 70s. The fans fold in on themselves or open up.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: plastic
MADE IN: Hong Kong (It’s written on the red bit at the bottom)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 18cm tall , 3.5cm wide (when folded up) 25cm when opened up.
PLACE REPRESENTED: Emerald, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Container
NOTES: Small container adorned by Queensland’s green tree frog. Mass produced this seems to be a case of “insert town name here”. Still, the frog is cute.
Emerald is a town in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia about 883 km NW of Brisbane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald,_Queensland
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: Hard resin
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 8cm long x 5.5cm high x 6cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Tasmania (specifically the Batman Bridge) , Australia
ITEM: Small Dish NOTES: A small nic nac dish celebrating Tasmania’s Batman bridge which crosses the Tamar River. The image and design of this is quite 1960s, which makes sense as the bridge was built between 1966 and 1968 and was the first cable stayed bridge in Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Bridge
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: china
MADE IN: Australia
MANUFACTURER: Westminster
DIMENSIONS: 11.5cm x 10cm
