VICTOR HARBOUR, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA – Salt & Pepper Shakers

Vitor harbour - sp shakers (1)      Vitor harbour - sp shakers (2)

PLACE REPRESENTED: Victor Harbour, South Australia , Australia

ITEM: Salt & Pepper Shakers

NOTES: The salt and pepper shakers clearly state “Vitor Harbour” not “Victor Harbour”. If you google “Vitor Harbour” or “Vitor Harbor” you will get nothing apart from a number of suggestions that perhaps you mean “Victor Harbour”, a seaside town 80 km south of Adelaide, South Australia. Interestingly there are organisations (sailing clubs, swimming clubs)  in the same place that use “Vitor” (or, they don’t spell check when putting themselves on-line). “Victor” and “Vitor” may be different places or the same place but they are both on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia.

I’m confused. Fleurieu Peninsula residents where are you?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleurieu_Peninsula

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1950s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN:  unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 9cm high , 6cm wide each

TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA – Salt & Pepper Shakers

Tasmania - Salt & Pepper Shakers - ceramic (1)PLACE REPRESENTED: Tasmania, Australia

ITEM: Salt & Pepper Shakers

NOTES: Apples and Tasmania … a very familiar motif. Apples and salt and pepper, of course, don’t go together or do they?

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): circa 1960

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN:  Australia

MANUFACTURER: Westminster Fine China

DIMENSIONS: 7cm high x 5.5cm wide

GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA – Salt & Pepper Shakers

Surfers Paradise - SP Shakers in pipe shape (1)Surfers Paradise - SP Shakers in pipe shape (2)PLACE REPRESENTED: Gold Coast (specifically Surfers Paradise), Queensland , Australia

ITEM: Salt & Pepper Shakers

NOTES: Handled salt and pepper shakers in fake bone with a fair bit of detail.

Perfect kitsch. Much like Surfers Paradise itself, perhaps?

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s

MADE FROM: plastic , steel

MADE IN:  unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 14cm long , 6cm high each

NEW ZEALAND – Salt & Pepper Shakers

New Zealand - Kiwi Bird and Maoris - Salt & Pepper Shakers - wood (3)New Zealand - Kiwi Bird and Maoris - Salt & Pepper Shakers - wood (4)
PLACE REPRESENTED:   New Zealand

ITEM: Wood and leather salt & pepper shakers.

NOTES: Salt & Pepper shakers made of wood with a center bound in what appears to be leather, etched with Polynesian symbols and Kiwi birds.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: wood , leather (I think).

MADE IN:  unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 12cm high , 4.2cm diameter around base.

KINGS CANYON, NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA – Salt & Pepper Shakers

Kings Canyon - SP Shakers (1)PLACE REPRESENTED: Kings Canyon, Central Australia , Australia

ITEM: Salt & Pepper Shakers

NOTES: Kings Canyon is part of the Watarrka National Park in Northern Territory, Australia, about 323 km southwest of Alice Springs. The plant depicted, the Sturt Desert Pea, is one of Australia’s best known wildflowers and is native to the arid regions of central and north-western Australia.

I’m not sure what plant is more prevalent at King’s Canyon but I do note that Sturt’s Desert Pea is the State floral emblem for South Australia not the Northern Territory. The Northern Territory has Sturt’s Desert Rose as it’s emblem.

How’s that for trivia?

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN:  Australia

MANUFACTURER: Crow’s Souvenirs

DIMENSIONS: 9cm tall

Kings Canyon - SP Shakers (2)

SARINA, QUEENSLAND – Salt & Pepper Shakers

Sarina - SP Shakers (2)

PLACE REPRESENTED: Sarina, Queensland, Australia

ITEM: Salt & Pepper Shakers

NOTES: True kitsch – clearly manufactured en masse with space for your home town to be written in later. Also, I’m sure you couldn’t walk your feet off around Sarina. It’s not that big.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN:  Japan

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 8cm across, 4cm high each

Another view of the feet for you podophiliacs    —

Another view of the feet for you podophiliacs —

 

NAMBOUR, AUSTRALIA – Salt & Pepper Shakers

PLACE REPRESENTED: Sunshine Plantation, Nambour , Australia

ITEM: Salt & Pepper Shakers

NOTES: Ahhh, the Sunshine Plantation on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, home of the Big Pineapple. One of Australia’s most well known and best “big fruits”.

For more on the Big Pineapple: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Pineapple

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN:  unknown.

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 9cm high , 5cm wide each