PLACE REPRESENTED: Port Lincoln, South Australia , Australia
ITEM: Coasters
NOTES: A set of six coasters depicting the delights of Port Lincoln famous for its fishing and bay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Lincoln
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: plastic , cork
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 10cm x 9cm each
PLACE REPRESENTED: Mt Isa, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Pennant
NOTES: Pennants in red and blue depicting two scenes of typical Mt Isa : Lake Moondarra and the town with its mining infrastructure. Mt Isa is hot and dusty with a lot of mining which explains Lake Moondarra which is an artificial lake which supplies the town, and mines, water.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1971
MADE FROM: cloth
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 26cm long x 14cm wide
PLACE REPRESENTED: Caloundra (specifically Dicky Beach), Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Small Nic Nac Bowl
NOTES: Subtle, with a serene Dicky Beach depicted. Dicky Beach is both a beach and suburb of the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia, located within the Caloundra urban centre. Despite the name the beach is not a nudist or naturists beach. The area was named after the iron steamboat, the SS Dicky, which ran aground during heavy seas on 12 February 1893 just in case you were wondering. The beach looks much the same …everything behind the beach doesn’t.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1920s
MADE FROM: china
MADE IN: Bohemia (Czech Republic)
MANUFACTURER: Victoria
DIMENSIONS: 19cm long x 12cm wide x 3cm deep
PLACE REPRESENTED: Australia
ITEM: Tote Bag
NOTES: Australia on a tote bag. At least someone had the good sense to include Tasmania, as well as other countries to the north. We are not an island. Well, we are, but I was speaking metaphorically.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 38cm wide x 30cm high
PLACE REPRESENTED: Western Australia , Australia
ITEM: Small Nic Nac Plate
NOTES: A small nic nac plate for the largest State in Australia. It depicts all the familiar motifs, the black swan, the local flowers including the Red and Green Kangaroo Paw, and the famous grasstree.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 8cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Hayman Island, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Wall ornament
NOTES: A wonderfully wall ornament made of resin and shell celebrating the subtropical joys of Hayman Island off the Queensland coast.
“Hayman Island is the most northerly of the Whitsunday Islands, part of the Cumberland Islands, which are located off the coast of Central Queensland, Australia … Hayman is a private island open to the public, most famous for its luxury resort which was built in the 1950s by millionaire Reg Ansett, who also founded the airline, Ansett Australia. The island is a significant drawing point for tourism in Queensland”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayman_Island
It was the place to go for locals in the 1960s and 1970s …
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: resin , shell
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 15cm diameter.
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PLACE REPRESENTED: Rockhampton, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Salt & Pepper Shakers
NOTES: Absolute kitsch. I’m not sure what these dolphins have to do with Rockhampton either. Well, I mean there would be dolphins there but they are pretty much everywhere along the Queensland coast. But, the Fitzroy river that Rockhampton is on is known for having Australian snubfin dolphins in residence and these aren’t snubfin dolphins.
Perhaps I’m being too pedantic.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: Japan
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 4cm across , 9cm high each (approx)
PLACE REPRESENTED: Sydney, New South Wales , Australia
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: This would be nice if it was brass and solid wood but it’s plastic and cheap wood. Sydney deserves better though Oscar Levant’s quote about Hollywood may apply to it … “Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you’ll find the real tinsel underneath”.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1990s
MADE FROM: plastic , wood
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 20cm long x 24cm high
PLACE REPRESENTED: Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia.
ITEM: Pen Holder
NOTES: Very groovy pen holder in resin and shell in the shape of a boomerang. Australian souvenir at it’s most stylish kitsch. Hervey Bay is a seaside town 290km north of the Queensland capital of Brisbane. It is a natural bay between the Queensland mainland and nearby sand island, Fraser Island. Hervey Bay is, also, the whale watching capital of Australia. It is known for its eccentric types. Well, I know one eccentric type from there.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: resin
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 17.5cm long x 7cm high to pen holder top
PLACE REPRESENTED: Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
ITEM: Fridge Magnet
NOTES: Animal caricature fridge magnets with youthful phrasing and attitude (apparently).
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2014
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 5.5cm across x 7cm high each