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VIENNA, AUSTRIA – Wall Plate

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Vienna , Austria

ITEM: Wall Plate

NOTES: A boy and girl in the traditional Vienna clothing. ‘Tracht’ is the word used in Austria for their traditional clothing and fashion. It is worn very often in the Austrian countryside, less in cities – only for special and formal occasions like weddings or receptions. Women wear ‘Dirndls’, a close-fitting bodice combined with an apron in different colors; either it is sleeveless and worn with a cotton and lace blouse, or it has sleeves and a high neck. Men wear ‘Lederhosen’, knee-length trousers or short-pants made from leather, worn with rustic shoes and wool socks. Should be more of it.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN: Austria

MANUFACTURER: BM

DIMENSIONS: 19.5cm diameter

 

ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA – Wall Plate

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Adelaide, South Australia , Australia

ITEM: Wall Plate

NOTES: Adelaide with all its sites in wonderful 70s colours. In case you didn’t know the flower depicted is Sturt’s Desert Pea, which is floral emblem of South Australia and the bird is the Piping Shrike the State bird and on the State’s coat of arms.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN: Japan

MANUFACTURER: Rex

DIMENSIONS: 19cm diameter

VIENNA, AUSTRIA – Wall Plate

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Vienna (specifically Donaustadt) , Austria

ITEM: Wall Plate

NOTES: Donaustadt (literally, Danube City) is the 22nd district of Vienna, Austria. The city is old but but the district is new (established 1946).Most of the sites are from other districts though the Donauturm tower (opened 1964) is depicted.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN: unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 18cm diameter

WORTHING, ENGLAND – Display Plate

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Worthing , England

ITEM: Display Plate

NOTES: A Present from Worthing … as it was circa 1925. Worthing is a large seaside town on the south coast of England … and the pier is still there, albeit destroyed and rebuilt a couple of times. The current one is the more art deco one from 1935. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worthing_Pier

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1920s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN: Germany

MANUFACTURER: Schumann

DIMENSIONS: 18cm diameter

ISRAEL – Wall Plate

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Israel

ITEM: Wall Plate

NOTES: A stylish, old school looking brass plate depicting Moses and “Israel” in English and Hebrew along the bottom. Moses was the leader of the Israelites dating back to the 13th century BC. The most important prophet in Judaism and one of the most important prophets in Christianity, Islam, the Druze faith, the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.The plate, like Israel, is intricate, substantial and permanent.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: steel (brass?)

MADE IN: Israel (I suspect)

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 25cm diameter

 

NEW CALEDONIA – Wall Plate

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PLACE REPRESENTED: New Caledonia, France

ITEM: Wall Plate

NOTES: New Caledonia, or more appropriately, Nouvelle Caledonie, is an archipelago in the south pacific popular with tourists. This everyone knows. It was colonised by the French. This everyone may know. It is still a dependent territory of France. This everyone should know. It has had political power since 1998 and the Nouméa Accord which was “a promise by the French Republic to grant political power to New Caledonia and its original population, the Kanaks, until the territory decides whether to remain a special collectivity of France or become an independent state in a referendum to be held in November 2018” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noumea_Accord) That everyone probably does not know.

The referendum was held in 2018, then another 2020 and 2021. On each occasion New Caledonia voted against independence.

They are , however, sufficiently devolved, though, to have their own nation entry here.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s

MADE FROM: plastic (melamine by the looks of it)

MADE IN: unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 15cm diameter

VENEZUELA – Wall Plate

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06LACE REPRESENTED: Venezuela

ITEM: Small Wall Plate

NOTES: A small wall ornament depicting the Venezuelan coat of arms from 1954 – 2006. The horse changed it’s position subsequently and perhaps its politics. It faces right here, and now faces left. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Venezuela

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN: unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 9cm diameter