Category Archives: Bosnia and Herzegovina

MEDJUGORJE, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA – Key Ring

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina

ITEM: Key Ring

NOTES: Medjugorje is a town located in southwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina, about 25 km southwest of Mostar and 20 km east of the border with Croatia. The town consists of an ethnically homogeneous Croat population of about 2300. And like, just about, every souvenir from there, they feature the Blessed Virgin Mary. Since 1981, when six local children said they had visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Medjugorje has become an unapproved destination of Catholic pilgrimage. It is inscribed “Kraljica Mira” or “Queen of Peace”.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s

MADE FROM: steel

MADE IN: unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 10cm long

   

SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA – Wall Ornament

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Sarajevo - wall plate (1)PLACE REPRESENTED: Sarajevo , Bosnia and Herzegovina

ITEM: Wall Ornament ]

NOTES: Sarajevo in Bosnia celebrated in wood craft (by pyrography – the art of decorating wood or leather by burning a design on the surface with a heated metallic point ) typical of Yugoslav folk tourist art of the 70s. Depicted here is the Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque and Tower clock damaged in the war of the 1990s but repaired. Oddly, perhaps intentionally, one of the verticals in the Mosque’s dome roof leading to the roof spire looks quite like a cross. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazi_Husrev-beg_Mosque

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: wood

MADE IN:   Bosnia and Herzegovina probably

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 16.5cm diameter