PLACE REPRESENTED: Cairns, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Small Dish
NOTES: A tear drop or fish shaped dish showing Cairns in North Queensland. This is not a reproduced photograph or line drawing but an artists impression of Cairns at the time. It is small but quite stunning.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1950s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 23cm long x 12cm wide x 2.5cm deep
PLACE REPRESENTED: Queensland (specifically North Queensland) , Australia
ITEM: Fan
NOTES: Beautifully kitsch plastic souvenir fans from the 60s or early 70s. The fans fold in on themselves or open up.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: plastic
MADE IN: Hong Kong (It’s written on the red bit at the bottom)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 18cm tall , 3.5cm wide (when folded up) 25cm when opened up
PLACE REPRESENTED: Peru
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: A simple but striking wall ornament from Peru in Inca gold. Well, in Peruvian gold, namely copper. And it is understandable why the souvenir is in copper given Peru is one of the largest copper producers in the world.
The symbols, the Inca person, the mountains, the llama all say “Peru”. The “Peru” at the bottom is almost superfluous. The punched and painted metal are streetcraft with style
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: copper
MADE IN: Peru probably
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 19cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Forth Bridge , Scotland
ITEM: Wall Plate
NOTES: The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge over across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland. It was opened in 1890. This is a nicely detailed plate with some details on its construction. Very nice…
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1930s
MADE FROM: china
MADE IN: England
MANUFACTURER: Melba China Co. Ltd
DIMENSIONS: 16cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Australia
ITEM: Mug
NOTES: Birds of Australia collection on mugs. Here the famous Rainbow Lorikeet gets a showing. Painted by Natalie Jane Parker.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2017
MADE FROM: China
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: Ashdene
DIMENSIONS: 10cm tall x 8cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Kuranda, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: A large wood map of Australia (sorry, no Tasmania) depicting the Kuranda scenic railway train around Kuranda, located on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland, Australia (about 25 km from Cairns). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuranda,_Queensland
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 36cm across x 28cm wide
PLACE REPRESENTED: Bunratty, Ireland
ITEM: Nic Nac Dish
NOTES: Bunratty or rather the 15th-century tower house in Bunratty Castle in County Clare, Ireland. It is located in the centre of Bunratty village and is quite impressive and imposing. Too impressive for a nic nac tray perhaps.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: melamine
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: John Hinde
DIMENSIONS: 13.5cm x 13.5cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Dubrovnik , Croatia
ITEM: Souvenir Spoon
NOTES: A souvenir spoon from Dubrovnik depicting its coat of arms though, strictly speaking, it is the coat of arms of the Republic of Ragusa as Dubrovnik was known during Renaissance times.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: steel
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 10.5cm long
PLACE REPRESENTED: Australia
ITEM: Stuffed Animal
NOTES: The famous flying fox. I remember looking up into the night sky (in inner city Brisbane) and seeing hundreds of these cute critters flying from A to B. You don’t see that anymore. Though you still get stray ones attacking the local mango trees
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2017
MADE FROM: material
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: caaustralia
DIMENSIONS: 56cm wingspan, 24cm length.
PLACE REPRESENTED: Nambour (specifically the Sunshine Plantation), Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Fan
NOTES: Beautifully kitsch plastic souvenir fans from the 60s or early 70s. The fans fold in on themselves or open up.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: plastic
MADE IN: Hong Kong (It’s written on the red bit at the bottom)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 18cm tall , 3.5cm wide (when folded up) 25cm when opened up.
