PLACE REPRESENTED: Victoria , Australia
ITEM: Ashtray
NOTES: Colourful and shiny …err, before use. Just like Victoria?
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: Japan
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 10cm x , 10cm
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
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
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 .
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
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
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)
SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES , AUSTRALIA – Cushion Cover
PLACE REPRESENTED: Sydney. New South Wales , Australia
ITEM: Cushion Cover
NOTES: The sites of Sydney in all its gaudy colour and splendour. This is vivid.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown DIMENSIONS: 48cm x 48cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Athens (specifically the Temple of Zeus) Greece
ITEM: Wall ornament
NOTES: A vividly coloured plate depicting (what’s left of) the Temple of Zeus in Athens … it is 2000+ years old. The Acropolis and Parthenon are in the background. http://www.greeka.com/attica/athens/athens-excursions/athens-olympian-zeus.htm
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: porcelain
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 21.5cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Trieste , Italy
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: An elaborate (as you would expect from the Italians) wall ornament depicting Miramare castle 8 km north-west of Trieste (or Trst as it is known to Croatians, well, it was an Illyrian settlement a long, long time ago). Castello di Miramare (or the Castle of Miramare), located about 8 km north-west of Trieste, with a commanding presence over the Gulf of Trieste, is a majestic castle (with a surrounding park, the Park of Miramare) built from 1856 to 1860 for Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian and his wife, Charlotte (the Austrian Habsburgs controlled the early 1500s until after World War 1). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miramare_Castle
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: steel , ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 29cm diameter
