PLACE REPRESENTED: Hamburg, Germany
ITEM: Small Display Plate.
NOTES: Hamburg, nicely detailed.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: ceramic material.
MADE IN: Germany.
MANUFACTURER: Uhlenhorst
DIMENSIONS: 9.5cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: New Orleans, Louisiana , USA
ITEM: Nail Clipper
NOTES: Nail clipper with a nail file (on the handle), can opener and knife. Be prepared!
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: steel
MADE IN: Korea
MANUFACTURER: Super
DIMENSIONS: 7cm long
PLACE REPRESENTED: Peru
ITEM: Cap
NOTES: A very stylish and ornate cap from Peru. Quite a bit of detail has gone into the brim and badge. It is wonderfully folk art-ish with some of the usual traditional Peruvian motifs displayed … a lama, Incas. The “chismosas” referred to are “gossips”. Very nice.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1990s
MADE FROM: leather or vinyl (I can’t tell which)
MADE IN: Peru probably
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: adult adjustable size.
PLACE REPRESENTED: Perth, Western Australia , Australia
ITEM: Coasters
NOTES: Generic plastic coated, foam backed cardboard coasters depicting all the major sites of a given place. In this case: Perth.
Quite sterile even if there are a lot of images, though one would be forgiven for thinking that no one lives there. Where are all the people?
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: cardboard, foam.
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 10cm x 10cm (34cm x 11cm pack)
PLACE REPRESENTED: Sydney (specifically the Sydney Harbour Bridge), New South Wales , Australia
ITEM: Ashtray
NOTES: A very old, very used ashtray depicting a very old, very used bridge … well by Australian standards anyway.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1950s
MADE FROM: steel , silver-plate (“exquisite” plate)
MADE IN: England
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 10cm x 10cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Cambodia
ITEM: Cap
NOTES: A cap with the Cambodian flag superimposed within the outline of Cambodia with, errr “Cambodia” written in English and in, I assume, Khmer.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1990s
MADE FROM: cotton or polyester
MADE IN: Cambodia probably (in a sweat shop?)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: adult adjustable size.
PLACE REPRESENTED: Philippines
ITEM: Wall ornament
NOTES: I don’t know if the three master is a traditional Philippine boat (and the Philippino’s will need more than this to block Chinese expansionism) but the colours of their flag are all here: red, white, blue and gold.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: Philipinnes probably
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 21.5cm x 21.5cm (or 27.5cm x 27.5cm when sitting in it’s proper position)
PLACE REPRESENTED: Juneau, Alaska, USA specifically The Red Dog Saloon.
ITEM: Cap
NOTES: Juneau is the capital of Alaska, and the Red Dog Saloon is the oldest man-made tourist attraction in Juneau, founded during Juneau’s mining era (around the 1880s I suppose). Actually the saloon has been in a few places in town but they had the historical (?) sense to move the whole saloon in the process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dog_Saloon
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: cotton
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: Red Dog Saloon
DIMENSIONS: adult adjustable size.
PLACE REPRESENTED: Hervey Bay, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Fridge Magnet
NOTES: Caricatures mixing it up: a koala riding a dolphin. Not likely.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: plastic
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 8.5cm x , 5cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Taylor’s Arm, New South Wales , Australia
ITEM: Fridge Magnet
NOTES: The Pub with No Beer immortalised in the Slim Dusty song of 1957. Taylors Arm is 498km north of Sydney, near Coffs Harbour. The poem the song was based on was about a pub in Ingham in North Queensland though.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: Australia
MANUFACTURER: Handmade
DIMENSIONS: 10cm across