PLACE REPRESENTED: Holland
ITEM: ornament
NOTES: Small bucket (milk or butter churn) and handpainted in Holland
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: Holland
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 4cm high , 3.5cm diameter (across top)
PLACE REPRESENTED: Cooktown, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Salt & Pepper Shakers
NOTES: Salt & pepper shakers from Cooktown in the shape of cheeky crocodiles is cheekily appropriate as Cooktown in Queensland’s far north has its fair share of crocodiles. Google “Cooktown” and “crocodile” and see what I mean. The locals consider them to be quite cheeky. Google “Cooktown”, “crocodile” and “cheeky” and see what I mean. People still get taken by crocodiles. There are many camping sites around Cooktown.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 6cm across x 7.5cm high
PLACE REPRESENTED: Hervey Bay, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Fan
NOTES: Beautifully kitsch plastic souvenir fan from the 60s (or early 70s). The fans fold in on themselves or open up and depict local sights.
Here they have thrown in some scenery from Fraser Island, across the channel.
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)
PLACE REPRESENTED: Chile
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: A nice hand crafted (partially) wall ornament from Chile, in copper, naturally enough. Copper mining was (is) one of the biggest industries in Chile.
“Recuerdo de Chile” means “A Remembrance of Chile”.
Simple, effective and stylish.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: Copper
MADE IN: unknown (probably Chile)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 13cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Coastal towns, Croatia
ITEM: Display Plate
NOTES: A great wooden wall plate with clock hand depicting various towns along Croatia’s coast: Lovran, Kotor, Koper, Dubrovnik. Simple, evocative and stylish. Home is where the heart is. Decidedly old world and probably not mass produced.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: Yugoslavia (as it then was) (handmade, in part?)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 24cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Tasmania, Australia
ITEM: Salt & Pepper Shakers
NOTES: Apples and Tasmania … a very familiar motif. Apples and salt and pepper, of course, don’t go together or do they?
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): circa 1960
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: Australia
MANUFACTURER: Westminster Fine China
DIMENSIONS: 7cm high x 5.5cm wide
PLACE REPRESENTED: Ireland
ITEM: Trivet or Plate place mats.
NOTES: Beautiful plate place mats (they are not big enough for plate and cutlery), trivet or pot stands depicting Ireland in all it’s 1960s beauty.
Was Ireland ever like this? Of course it was and is … you just have to look a little harder sometimes.
Made in England though!
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: wood, cork, material
MADE IN: England
MANUFACTURER: Win-El-Ware
DIMENSIONS: 15cm x 15cm (each)
PLACE REPRESENTED: Gold Coast (specifically Surfers Paradise), Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Salt & Pepper Shakers
NOTES: Handled salt and pepper shakers in fake bone with a fair bit of detail.
Perfect kitsch. Much like Surfers Paradise itself, perhaps?
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: plastic , steel
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 14cm long , 6cm high each
PLACE REPRESENTED: Büsum , Germany
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: Büsum is a small town on the North Sea coast of Germany. Fishing is big … which is explains Saint Clement, patron saint of sailors and fishermen, with an anchor. Domestic tourism, to its health spa, is important also. It gained official Nordseebad (North Sea spa) status in 1837.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 18cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Rockhampton, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Souvenir Boomerang Ornament
NOTES: I’m not sure if this boomerang will come back. It’s machine shopped but it is made in Australia (in Melbourne) and made from mulga wood. Mulga is a shrub or small tree native to arid outback areas. It has adapted to its environment and makes sure it captures all rain and moisture. Accordingly, sheep and cattle love it, as do bees for its flowers. Humans, also, use it as a good source of firewood as well as a wood to make implements and … boomerangs. There is a kangaroo decal at the center just in case you didn’t know where it came from. Rockhampton has been etched into the boomerang off-center, and, perhaps, as an afterthought.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: Australia
MANUFACTURER: Australian Mulga
DIMENSIONS: 26cm long (the boomerang) x 5cm wide at its widest
