PLACE REPRESENTED: Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Salt & Pepper Shakers
NOTES: Stylish (or garish) 80s looking salt & pepper shakers depicting popular Queensland symbols … pineapples, sun, sunglasses and waves.
No art, literature, or culture?
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 5cm diameter , 7cm high
PLACE REPRESENTED: Kings Canyon, Northern Territory , Australia
ITEM: Steel cup
NOTES: A steel cup. Kings Canyon (which is part of the Watarrka National Park in remote Northern Territory, Australia, about 323 km south-west of Alice Springs).
Everything suggests this souvenir had a functional use around a camp fire.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: steel
MADE IN: China (we probably sold them the iron ore to make this cup)
MANUFACTURER: Shanghai Bon Voyage International Trading Co
DIMENSIONS: 8.5cm diameter x 8cm high
PLACE REPRESENTED: Prague , Czech Republic
ITEM: Dinner Bell
NOTES: A (ornamental) little dinner bell depicting Prague’s Charles Bridge over the river Vltava with the Prague castle in the background.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 5cm diameter x 8.5cm high
PLACE REPRESENTED: Woombye (specifically The Big Pineapple), Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Snow Globe
NOTES: It doesn’t snow anywhere near the “Big Pineapple” so why a snow globe? Why not I say!
The “Big Pineapple” was a big and a major tourist attraction in the 70s … people would travel for miles to see the “Big Pineapple”. They don’t as much any more but they should as there is should be a market for “retro chic hipster tourism”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Pineapple
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: plastic
MADE IN: China
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 18.5cm high x 7cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Budapest , Hungary
ITEM: Key Chain
NOTES: Budapest in leather.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: leather
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 4cm across , 5cm high
PLACE REPRESENTED: Grenfell, New South Wales , Australia
ITEM: Fridge Magnet
NOTES: A outback man and his swag. How, err, outback Australian. Henry Lawson, the bush poet, was born near Grenfell so this is appropriate.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: plastic
MADE IN: Australia
MANUFACTURER: Crystal Craft
DIMENSIONS: 4.5cm x 7cm (at its biggest)
PLACE REPRESENTED: Argentina
ITEM: Coasters
NOTES: A magnificent set of coasters (set of six) from Argentina in leather stitched onto a plastic base. Or is it fake leather?
Who knows but there are a lot of cows in Argentina.
Stamped and painted depictions of Argentine culture complete the picture.
I suspect it’s all machine made but made to look hand crafted. Either way it is pretty good and the base / holder is pretty nifty also.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s MADE FROM: plastic, leather (faux leather perhaps)
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: Coasters are 9.5cm in diameter With the base the item sits 10.5cm high
PLACE REPRESENTED: Colombia
ITEM: Small Display Plate
NOTES: The Republic of Colombia – in elegant style.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: steel
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 10cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Durban , South Africa
ITEM: Spoon Rest
NOTES: The shield of the port city of Durban.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: plastic
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 24cm long
PLACE REPRESENTED: Pisa , Italy
ITEM: Ornament
NOTES: The leaning tower of Pisa is the most well known of the buildings in the piazza dei miracoli in Pisa but there are four great religious edifices: the Duomo (cathedral), the Campanile (the cathedral’s free standing bell tower), the Baptistry and the Camposanto.
Here they are captured in something 7cm long.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: hard plastic resin
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 6cm high , 7cm long