PLACE REPRESENTED: Samoa
ITEM: Fridge Magnet
NOTES: Now, this fridge magnet I like. Wooden and hand painted in the shape of a turtle. The Independent State of Samoa is a island group in the south pacific.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: Samoa, I suspect
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 6cm across x 6.5cm high
PLACE REPRESENTED: Wisconsin , USA
ITEM: Fridge Magnet
NOTES: A fridge magnet in the shape of the state of Wisconsin with tourist high lights depicted.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: resin
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 7cm across x 7.5cm high
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
PLACE REPRESENTED: Hervey Bay, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Fridge Magnet
NOTES: Caricatures mixing it up: a koala riding a dolphin. Not likely.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: plastic
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 8.5cm x , 5cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Taylor’s Arm, New South Wales , Australia
ITEM: Fridge Magnet
NOTES: The Pub with No Beer immortalised in the Slim Dusty song of 1957. Taylors Arm is 498km north of Sydney, near Coffs Harbour. The poem the song was based on was about a pub in Ingham in North Queensland though.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: Australia
MANUFACTURER: Handmade
DIMENSIONS: 10cm across
PLACE REPRESENTED: Mt Tambourine, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Fridge Magnet
NOTES: Beautifully detailed, hand painted and crafted fridge magnet from Mt Tambourine in the Gold Coast Hinterland. Someone has hand painted a nut, which seem to be gumnuts from a eucalypt tree which are prolific on Tambourine. The mountain has had a long history of arts and crafts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamborine_Mountain
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1990s
MADE FROM: wood , magnet
MADE IN: Australia
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 5cm long , 3cm wide
PLACE REPRESENTED: Australia
ITEM: Fridge Magnet
NOTES: The “Aussie Sheila” fridge magnet with all the phrases used by the Aussie sheila. A “sheila” is a girl.
This is a nice piece of kitsch that sends up the speech of a past Australia, not that the current vernacular, in many sections, is any better. Her outfit, down to the Ug boots, isn’t uncommon either.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2014
MADE FROM: plastic
MADE IN: ?
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 5cm x 6cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Cairns, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Fridge Magnets
NOTES: Cairns boomerang fridge magnet with colourful tropical relief.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2014
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: Citer Souvenirs
DIMENSIONS: 12cm long
PLACE REPRESENTED: Tasmania , Australia
ITEM: Fridge Magnet
NOTES: The Tasmanian devil with an apple and sunglasses.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1985
MADE FROM: plastic
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 4.5cm , 4.5cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Tasmania , Australia
ITEM: Fridge Magnet
NOTES: Abstract Tasmania (and its ever famous apple) in green, red and black. I like this.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1990s
MADE FROM: resin plastic
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 5cm x 5cm (at its widest)