PLACE REPRESENTED: Cambodia
ITEM: Key Ring
NOTES: A key ring bottle opener and nail clipper! Perfect for travelling. The handle depicts the Angkor Wat temple with Vishnu is one of the Hundu deities hovering, perhaps Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu, or Maheshvara?
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: Steel
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 11cm long (including chain) x 43 across (at widest)
PLACE REPRESENTED: Vietnam
ITEM: Cap
NOTES: A green military style cap from Vietnam
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: cotton
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: head size
PLACE REPRESENTED: Emerald, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Container
NOTES: Small container adorned by Queensland’s green tree frog. Mass produced this seems to be a case of “insert town name here”. Still, the frog is cute.
Emerald is a town in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia about 883 km NW of Brisbane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald,_Queensland
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: Hard resin
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 8cm long x 5.5cm high x 6cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Scotland
ITEM: Cap
NOTES: Self explanatory, though, because I’m adverse to brevity I’ll mention the flag, or rather, quote someone else: “The Flag of Scotland is a white X-shaped cross, which represents the cross of the patron saint of Scotland, Saint Andrew on a blue sky. The flag is called the Saltire or the Saint Andrew’s Cross”. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Scotland
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: cotton
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: adult adjustable size.
PLACE REPRESENTED: Fremantle, Western Australia , Australia
ITEM: Wall ornament
NOTES: A vivid wall ornament (or trivet) which captures the bright colours of a sunny beach going Australia. Kitschy and contemporary but quite nice … just like Fremantle, perhaps.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: Tile
MADE IN: Australia
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 15.5cm x 15.5cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Australia
ITEM: Oven mitt aka oven glove
NOTES: An oven mitt with a map of Australia and some of the flora and fauna associated with it. Perhaps an oven mitt is appropriate … flora, fauna, global warming.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: cotton
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 30cm long x 15cm wide
PLACE REPRESENTED: Saigon , Vietnam
ITEM: Figurine
NOTES: A cute figurine of a Vietnamese girl. I have no idea if the clothing is traditional but she is certainly stylish.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2001
MADE FROM: material , wood
MADE IN: Vietnam no doubt
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 18cm tall , 4.5cm diameter base
PLACE REPRESENTED: Malaysia
ITEM: Key Ring Holder
NOTES: A dainty little key ring made out of material and wood with a bell attached underneath. Clearly the bell is not there to help you find your keys (think about it) … it must be to give you a little aural magic you walk along. It is all very delicate. I don’t think it would last long in my pocket.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: wood , material , steel
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 14cm long (including chain)
PLACE REPRESENTED: Mykonos , Greece
ITEM: Candle Holder
NOTES: A really nice tea tree candle holder with coloured and painted glass. Quite evocative for a recent travel trinket. Mykonos is a Greek island in the Aegean and has, the typically, white houses and the famous Mykonos windmills as depicted on the glass. Mykonos’ nickname is “The island of the winds” which explains the windmills, and possibly why the candle needs to be encased in a lantern!
Much more subtle than the Australian comedy “The Kings of Mykonos” (2010).
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: steel , glass
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 20.5cm high x 7.5cm wide at base
PLACE REPRESENTED: Wisconsin , USA
ITEM: Fridge Magnet
NOTES: A fridge magnet in the shape of the state of Wisconsin with tourist high lights depicted.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: resin
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 7cm across x 7.5cm high