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

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

ITEM: Drinks Tray

NOTES: A drinks tray depicting Sydney’s third most identifiable feature (the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge probably beat it, if for no other reason than it seems to subject to frequent name changes. As wikipedia says “The name Sydney Tower has become common in daily usage; however, the tower has been known as the Sydney Tower Eye, AMP Tower, Flower Tower, Glower Tower, Westfield Centrepoint Tower, Big Poke, Centrepoint Tower or just Centrepoint”. The Sydney Tower is Sydney’s tallest structure and the second tallest observation tower in the Southern Hemisphere, and was opened to the public in 1981. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Tower

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: metal

MADE IN: unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 32cm diameter

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 This drinks tray is exactly the same as another I have posted except King’s Bridge at Launceston has been replaced by Prince’s Square Fountain at Launceston.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