PLACE REPRESENTED: San Diego, California , USA
ITEM: Wall plate
NOTES: San Diego, “the birthplace of California” with all its sites. Simple but effective.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 19cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Sunshine Coast, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Wall Plate
NOTES: A small wall plate done in bamboo (Queensland …. sub-tropics …it works … sort of). Simple but pleasant … and very 1970s
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: Bamboo
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 16cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Canberra, ACT , Australia
ITEM: Wall Plate
NOTES: A vivid wall plate with all the sites of Australia’s capital … I didn’t know there was so many.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 31cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Niagara Falls , Canada
ITEM: Wall Plate
NOTES: Niagara Falls, perhaps the most visited site in Canada? This has wonderful detail and a retro vibe.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: Korea
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 17.5cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Croatia
ITEM: Wall Plate
NOTES: A wall plate of Croatia depicting the Croatian coat of arms and the words, Lijepa naša domovina (Our Beautiful Homeland), which is also the national anthem.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1995
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 20cm diameter
WALES – Wall Plate
PLACE REPRESENTED: Wales
ITEM: Wall Plate
NOTES: Wales, the least troublesome of the United Kingdom’s “independent” countries (read former dominions) (sorry Welsh people … there mat be pride but there is no republic). The Welsh Dragon (Welsh: Y Ddraig Goch, meaning the red dragon) is a national symbol and appears on the national flag of Wales. In 1953 Ddyryn Cychwyn was added, meaning “the red dragon inspires action”. It would be good if it does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Dragon
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: China
MADE IN: England
MANUFACTURER: Goodliffe Neale
DIMENSIONS: 20.5cm diameter F
PLACE REPRESENTED: Brisbane, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Wall Plate
NOTES: A vivid plate of Brisbane at the time of the Queensland Centenary in 1959. The sites are all intact and not in abundance such was Brisbane in 1959. Accordingly, the plate makers have included Greenmount beach at Coolangatta on the nearby Gold Coast (which was then still relatively underdeveloped). All under the logo (“insert coat of arms or logo here”) of the Greater Brisbane H.T.A (a tennis association now defunct in Queensland) which is quite appropriate as tennis and sunshine mix well.
The plate has some special significance for me as my father and mother came to Australia, from Croatia (well, from Yugoslavia via other countries) in 1959 and 1960 respectively. They met here shortly thereafter and this is what they, no doubt, saw, and it was a lot les developed then what they were used to.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1959
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: Japan
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 25.5cm diameter
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
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
PLACE REPRESENTED: Heidelberg , Germany
ITEM: Wall Plate
NOTES: Heidelberg (on the river Neckar) in south-west Germany with the famous Old Bridge (Karl Theodor Bridge) Gate.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: West Germany
MANUFACTURER: Kaiser
DIMENSIONS: 19.5cm diameter