Tag Archives: 1960s

ARIZONA (specifically the Grand Canyon), USA – Game

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona , USA

ITEM: Game

NOTES: Okay, so this is designed to come from anywhere given the “Grand Canyon Nat’l Park” is a decal at the front. But, this chess and checkers set is designed for the traveller, or even for the kids in the back seat in the days before electronics, especially useful on the long drive to the Grand Canyon. And, in any event, have chess (and checkers) will travel. You will always find someone who plays chess.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s

MADE FROM: wood , plastic

MADE IN: unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 12.5cm x 10cm x 5cm FOR: Use

       

ABRUZZO, ITALY – Ashtray

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Abruzzo , Italy

ITEM: Ashtray

NOTES: “Ricordo d’ Abruzzo”. A “Remembrance of Abruzzo. This is a simple but stylishly detailed copper ashtray from the Italian region on the Adriatic..

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s

MADE FROM: Copper

MADE IN: unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 14.5cm diameter

CALOUNDRA, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA – Ornament

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Caloundra, Queensland , Australia

ITEM: Humorous Ornament

NOTES: Old school Australian humour. The wheel rotates to display many humorous quotes on “The Sport of Kings”, which is not horseracing but rather betting on horseracing. Have you ever noticed that, inevitably, everything humorous about horse racing seems to revolve about bad luck with the horses? And yet we still gamble. Clearly the “Caloundra” is an afterthought to this tourist trinket. There wasn’t, even, a race track at Caloundra (well not till after this trinket, in the mid 80s). Still, it’s a nice bit of 1960s kitsch.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s

MADE FROM: wood

MADE IN: unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 14.5cm x 22cm

 

BOURKE, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA – Ashtray

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Bourke, New South Wales , Australia

ITEM: Ashtray

NOTES: Bourke is located on the Darling River 789 km north-west of Sydney, in New South Wales. Depicted is the famous North Bourke Bridge across the Darling which was completed in 1883. This bridge was designed to allow paddle-steamers to pass along the river. The bridge is a “lift up” or moveable-span bridge and is the oldest in Australia and is the sole survivor of its type in New South Wales. It served as a Gateway structure for 114 years before being bypassed in 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourke,_New_South_Wales https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/portal/heritage/north-bourke-bridge-darling-river-1883

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN: Australia

MANUFACTURER: St Kilda Fine China

DIMENSIONS: 13cm diameter

MT MAUNGANUI, NEW ZEALAND – Trivet

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Mt Maunganji - Trivet - steel (1)     Mt Maunganji - Trivet - steel (3)

PLACE REPRESENTED: Mt Maunganui, Tauranga , New Zealand

ITEM: Trivet

NOTES: Mount Maunganui is a town in the Bay of Plenty, located on a peninsula just to the north of Tauranga, at the top of the North Island of New Zealand. The Mount was independent from Tauranga until the completion of the Tauranga Harbour Bridge in 1988. Phil Rudd, the former drummer for AC/DC lives in Tauranga …but only since the 80s.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s

MADE FROM: Steel

MADE IN:  unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 13.5cm x 13.5xm       .

IRELAND – Calendar

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PLACE REPRESENTED:   Ireland

ITEM: Calendar

NOTES: A rustic Irish calendar depicting a happy go lucky stereotyped “Paddy” (it says so between his legs!) with his shillelagh which is also depicted at the top of the calendar in twig form. The real shillelagh is a walking stick come club used for walking and, errr clubbing?

In the days before digital, computers, iPhones and all the rest, this is how you kept track of the date, by rotating the numbers and days around, each day.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s

MADE FROM: wood , steel

MADE IN:  unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 17cm high x 8cm wide

HOLLAND – Wall Ornament

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PLACE REPRESENTED:   Holland

ITEM: Wall Ornament

NOTES: A small wall ornament with a hand painted farmhouse, some pyrography lettering, and, naturally enough, a windmill (windmills or clogs, clogs or windmills). This is especially as the sails on the windmill turn!

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s

MADE FROM: wood

MADE IN:  unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 9.5cm diameter

 

HERVEY BAY, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA – Fan

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PLACE REPRESENTED: Hervey Bay, 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. Nice scenes of the sites at Hervey Bay and the nearby Fraser Island.

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 (18cm tall x 3.5cm wide (when folded in) or 25cm when open up)