Category Archives: Nic Nac Dish

CALOUNDRA, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA – Nic Nac Bowl

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Dicky Beach, Caloundra - Nic Nac Bowl (1)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

Dicky Beach, Caloundra - Nic Nac Bowl (2)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA – Nic Nac Plate

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Western Australia - Small Plate (1)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

NEW YORK CITY, USA – Nic Nac Plate

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new-york-city-renaissance-hotel-plate-1NEW YORK CITY, USA – Nic Nac Plate

PLACE REPRESENTED: New York City , USA

ITEM: Nic Nac Plate

NOTES: A tourist trinket with a specific agenda: “Meet me Under the Clock” and on the back, at the Renaissance Hotel in NYC on New Years Eve 1996. “Meet Me Under the Clock” is a place where many people meet, a clock being in times past a not common item, so everyone would know where it was. The phrase, apparently, can be traced to  J. D. Salinger who would meet William Shawn, the editor of The New Yorker, with that phrases, under the New York Biltmore Hotel’s lobby clock. The New York Biltmore Hotel ceased operation when the building was gutted in August 1981. The Renaissance is now a Marriott hotel on New York Times Square.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1996

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN:  unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 13cm diameter

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LONDON (specifically Westminster Abbey), ENGLAND – Nic Nac Plate

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Westminster Abbey - Melamine Plate 01 (1)PLACE REPRESENTED: London (specifically the Westminster Abbey) , England

ITEM: Nic Nac Plate

NOTES: The Westminster Abbey in London. A gothic style church started in 1245 and added on to over the years. Originally Roman Catholic in order and in temperament, but subsequently Church of England, the Abbey has had a long and colourful history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Abbey

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: melamine

MADE IN: Italy

MANUFACTURER: A Pavo

DIMENSIONS: 15cm  x , 10.5cm

LONDON, ENGLAND – Nic Nac Plate

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London - Tube Nic Nac Tray (1)PLACE REPRESENTED: London (specifically the London Underground) , England.

ITEM: Nic Nac Plate

NOTES: A small nic nac plate depicting the iconic map to the London Underground. Though it may be a little hard to carry, you wont get lost using this map, well, as long as you down leave the Tube station.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1990s

MADE FROM: plastic

MADE IN:  unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 15cm  x 10cm

FITZROY FALLS, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA – Nic Nac Dish

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Fitzroy Falls - Spoon Rest (1)PLACE REPRESENTED: Fitzroy Falls & Cascades, New South Wales , Australia

ITEM: Nic Nac Dish (dish)

NOTES: Fitzroy Falls & Cascades is near the head of the Yarrunga Creek in the Morton National Park located in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales (approx 170 kilometres south south-west of Sydney). Fitzroy Falls is not famous for fish or fishing so I’m not sure why this is in the shape of a fish. Well, apart from the manufacturer in Germany saying “vee have 10000 fish dishes da finkelstein Norvegins dont vant to buy from us. Ring da dummkopfs in New South Wales and ask if they vood like to put their vater fall on za dish”. Yes, I know that was lame and also a poor reinforcement of ethnic stereotypes, but … it’s late.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1930s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN:  Germany

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 15.5cm from head tip to fin end x 10cm (top to bottom) x 2.5cm high

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TAREE, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA – Nic Nac Bowl

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Taree - Nic Nac Plate (1)     Taree - Nic Nac Plate (2)PLACE REPRESENTED: Taree, New South Wales, Australia

ITEM: Nic Nac Bowl

NOTES: Victoria Street, the main drag in Taree which is located on the Manning River on the mid north coast of New South Wales … well actually, from the picture, Victoria Street circa 1930.

It looked nicer then … less cars.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1930s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN:  Czechoslovakia

MANUFACTURER: ‘Victoria’ Schmidt & Company

DIMENSIONS: 13.5cm  x 13.5cm