PLACE REPRESENTED: Sweden
ITEM: Tea Bag Holder
NOTES: I’m not sure if tea is big in Sweden. It must be, otherwise why the tea bag holder (or spoon rest). Depicted is the traditional Dalecarlian horse or Dala horse from Sweden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalecarlian_horse
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 12cm across x 9cm top to bottom.
PLACE REPRESENTED: Sarajevo , Bosnia and Herzegovina
ITEM: Wall Ornament ]
NOTES: Sarajevo in Bosnia celebrated in wood craft (by pyrography – the art of decorating wood or leather by burning a design on the surface with a heated metallic point ) typical of Yugoslav folk tourist art of the 70s. Depicted here is the Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque and Tower clock damaged in the war of the 1990s but repaired. Oddly, perhaps intentionally, one of the verticals in the Mosque’s dome roof leading to the roof spire looks quite like a cross. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazi_Husrev-beg_Mosque
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: Bosnia and Herzegovina probably
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 16.5cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Fes , Morocco
ITEM: Wall Plate
NOTES: Fes, the “Mecca of the West”, the “Athens of Africa”. A nicely detailed plate depicting Fes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fez,_Morocco
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: Morocco
MANUFACTURER: Cocema Fes Maroc
DIMENSIONS: 17cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Venice , Italy
ITEM: Wall Plate
NOTES: A elaborate, detailed (and very Italian) wall plate depicting some of the famous sites of Venice, the city of 117 small islands, separated by canals and linked by bridges.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 24cm diameter.
PLACE REPRESENTED: Great Barrier Reef, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Ashtray
NOTES: The Great Barrier Reef as an ashtray?
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: Japan
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 16cm x , 16cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Uluru, Northern Territory , Australia
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: The famous Uluru … though probably still called Ayres Rock at the time of this travel trinket (as it was until 1993). Usually referred to as the largest rock in the world, it’s not. Mount Augustus in outback Western Australia is. Still this is pretty and, unusually, it is a night time or dusk scene of the rock as opposed to the more common daylight one.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: Australia probably
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 28cm long x 11cm wide x 1.5cm thick. .
PLACE REPRESENTED: Sydney, New South Wales , Australia
ITEM: Tray
NOTES: A bamboo tray (which could double as a wall ornament) with a vivid printed Sydney harbour depicting the Harbour Bridge and, of course, the Sydney Opera House.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: bamboo
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 27.5cm diameter
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: 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