PLACE REPRESENTED: London , England
ITEM: Trinket Dish
NOTES: A trinket dish (it says so the back label) depicting the icons of London – the London Eye, Big Ben, St Mary Axe (The Gherkin), a double decker bus, St Paul’s Cathedral, a red phone box … but there is so much more.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2025
MADE FROM: ceramic material
l MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: curi-o-city
DIMENSIONS: 10 cm x 10cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Edinburgh , Scotland
ITEM: Ni Nac Bowl
NOTES: The capital of Scotland and the national flower of Scotland, the thistle, remembered in this simple though quite stylish and nicely glazed piece of pottery.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: pottery
MADE IN: Scotland probably
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 8cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Melbourne, Victoria , Australia
ITEM: Nic Nac Dish
NOTES: A small but well detailed nic nac dish depicting the Melbourne skyline as it was in the early 1960s.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: china
MADE IN: Australia
MANUFACTURER: Westminster
DIMENSIONS: 9.5cm x 9.5cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: London , England
ITEM: Small Dish
NOTES: A dish celebrating the “great Twelve Companies” of London or rather, the Great Twelve Livery Companies” of London. The Livery companies were employment based and with the nature of guilds. They played an important part of the culture and development of London (and England). Like guilds they were for the benefits of their members and, like guilds, the Livery Companies of London accumulated property and possessed magnificent halls. Charters were granted to them in return for large sums of money advanced to the State. These are the first 12 main ones. There are 110 now. Clearly there isn’t one for “souvenir makers” otherwise this wouldn’t have been made in Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livery_company
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: plastic (melamine)
MADE IN: Italy
MANUFACTURER: Pavo
DIMENSIONS: 13.5cm x 13.5cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Tasmania , Australia
ITEM: Nic Nac Dish
NOTES: Tasmania, the “holiday State”, famous for apples and yachts and ferries travelling north at weird angles it seems.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 9.5cm x 9.5cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Bathurst (specifically the Soldier’s Memorial on King’s Parade), Victoria , Australia
ITEM: Dish
NOTES: The Soldiers’ Memorial (built 1909) at King’s Parade, Bathurst to remember those who fought in the Boer War. It’s still there as most Australian memorials are … one of the benefits of not being over run by other countries every few decades.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1930s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: England
MANUFACTURER: E. Webb & Co (made by Grimwade’s)
DIMENSIONS: 15.5cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Bunratty, Ireland
ITEM: Nic Nac Dish
NOTES: Bunratty or rather the 15th-century tower house in Bunratty Castle in County Clare, Ireland. It is located in the centre of Bunratty village and is quite impressive and imposing. Too impressive for a nic nac tray perhaps.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: melamine
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: John Hinde
DIMENSIONS: 13.5cm x 13.5cm
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
PLACE REPRESENTED: Albury, New South Wales , Australia
ITEM: Small Dish
NOTES: A small nic nac dish displaying the Albury War Memorial built in 1925 to commemorate those who had died in World War 1. Albury is a regional city in southern New South Wales near the Victorian border (it is separated from its twin city in Victoria, Wodonga, by the Murray River). There are many similar memorials throughout Australia. http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/conflict/ww1/display/20038-albury-and-district-war-memorial
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1930s
MADE FROM: china
MADE IN: England
MANUFACTURER: Royal Stafford
DIMENSIONS: 9cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Beijing , China
ITEM: Nic Nac Dish
NOTES: Beijing. The familiar sites of Beijing, errr 20 years ago. There has been a lot of development since then. Errr, there has been a lot of development there since I started writing this entry.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1990s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: Australia. Ha, just kidding. China (of course)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 22cm long x 14cm wide x 2cm high
