KINGS CANYON, NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA – Salt & Pepper Shakers

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Kings Canyon - SP Shakers (1)PLACE REPRESENTED: Kings Canyon, Central Australia , Australia

ITEM: Salt & Pepper Shakers

NOTES: Kings Canyon is part of the Watarrka National Park in Northern Territory, Australia, about 323 km southwest of Alice Springs. The plant depicted, the Sturt Desert Pea, is one of Australia’s best known wildflowers and is native to the arid regions of central and north-western Australia.

I’m not sure what plant is more prevalent at King’s Canyon but I do note that Sturt’s Desert Pea is the State floral emblem for South Australia not the Northern Territory. The Northern Territory has Sturt’s Desert Rose as it’s emblem.

How’s that for trivia?

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN:  Australia

MANUFACTURER: Crow’s Souvenirs

DIMENSIONS: 9cm tall

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SPLIT, CROATIA – Ornament

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Split - Souvenir Mini Mug (1)PLACE REPRESENTED: Split , Croatia 
ITEM: Ornament 
NOTES: A minature beer mug. Wine is more porpular in Split (in Dalmatia) and Croatia generally but beer is drunken (by mugs) though not normally from mugs. Regardless, most places seem to have their town depicted on these beer mug trinkets. 
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2004 
MADE FROM: ceramic material     
MADE IN:  Croatia (probably)  
MANUFACTURER: unknown 
DIMENSIONS: 6cm high , 5cm wide

COOMA, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA – Ornament

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Cooma - Clog boat (1)PLACE REPRESENTED: Cooma, New South Wales , Australia

ITEM: ornament

NOTES: A wooden statuette of a boat. This is a beautifully detailed travel trinket where the sails even move! But the trinket seems to have been made from left overs from other souvenirs. The boats hull is a Dutch clog (confirmed by the windmill depictions), the sails seem to resemble that of Spanish galleons, the flag on the main mast (I talk the salty sea dog talk) is Dutch and there is a little sticker that says Cooma, NSW.

Waste not , want not, huh?

Cooma is no where near the coast either so I’m not sure about the whole boat choice.

As far as I know neither the Dutch nor the Spanish colonised Cooma, but I wouldn’t put it past them.

Cooma, though, did become the headquarters of the Snowy Mountains Scheme (a hydroelectricity , irrigation, and dam complex  that is the largest engineering project ever undertaken in Australia taking some 25 years to complete) during the 1950s and 1960s. The employment of workers was from 32 (mostly European) countries so, perhaps, this explains the cultural potpourri of this trinket.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s

MADE FROM: wood

MADE IN:  unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 15cm high , 6cm long

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ARTA TERME, ITALY – Wall Ornament

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Arta Terme - Wood Wall Hanging (1)

PLACE REPRESENTED: Arta Terme , Italy

ITEM: Wall Ornament

NOTES: A mass produced wooden artifact – insert town name at bottom.

Arta Terme is a province in far north western Italy which explains the slightly alpine look in the trinket.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arta_Terme

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s

MADE FROM: wood

MADE IN:  unknown

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 8cm  across , 18cm high

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ST LOUIS, MISSOURI, USA – Display Plate

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St Louis - Plate (1)

PLACE REPRESENTED: St Louis , Missouri, USA

ITEM: Display Plate

NOTES: Great detail. The Japanese are good at this type of stuff. This is the home of Chuck Berry, Philis Diller, Vincent Price, David Rasche, James Franciscus, Shelley Winters – none of whom are on the plate.

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1989

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN:  Japan

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 20cm diameter

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