PLACE REPRESENTED: Cairns, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Small Dish
NOTES: A tear drop or fish shaped dish showing Cairns in North Queensland. This is not a reproduced photograph or line drawing but an artists impression of Cairns at the time. It is small but quite stunning.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1950s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 23cm long x 12cm wide x 2.5cm deep
PLACE REPRESENTED: Frankfurt , Germany
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: A magnificently detailed look at Frankfurt, a Frankfurt that doesn’t exist anymore. The skyline is modern now. Here, the late 1950s or early 1960s, Frankfurt was still being rebuilt after heavy bombing during World War 2. The bridge (not sure which one) still has a steel span between the block foundations. Wonderfully evocative of a time gone by … and the Frankfurt Elvis would have seen when he was in the US Army stationed near by.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1950s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: Germany probably
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 33cm long x 14cm wide x 1.5cm thick
PLACE REPRESENTED: Sydney (specifically the Sydney Harbour Bridge), New South Wales , Australia
ITEM: Ashtray
NOTES: A very old, very used ashtray depicting a very old, very used bridge … well by Australian standards anyway.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1950s
MADE FROM: steel , silver-plate (“exquisite” plate)
MADE IN: England
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 10cm x 10cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Mildura, Victoria , Australia
ITEM: Side Plate
NOTES: A small side plate depicting the Municipal Chambers of Mildura in Victoria. I think the townscape hasn’t changed since the plate was made.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1950s
MADE FROM: Bone China
MADE IN: England
MANUFACTURER: Royal Grafton
DIMENSIONS: 13cm x 13cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Burra, South Australia , Australia
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: Small hand painted (?) plate depicting the copper cliffs of Burra …which ended up being a very large copper mine. This is quite a beautiful small piece of individual art of a place which I hope still exists.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1950s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 11.5cm x 8.5cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Victor Harbour, South Australia , Australia
ITEM: Salt & Pepper Shakers
NOTES: The salt and pepper shakers clearly state “Vitor Harbour” not “Victor Harbour”. If you google “Vitor Harbour” or “Vitor Harbor” you will get nothing apart from a number of suggestions that perhaps you mean “Victor Harbour”, a seaside town 80 km south of Adelaide, South Australia. Interestingly there are organisations (sailing clubs, swimming clubs) in the same place that use “Vitor” (or, they don’t spell check when putting themselves on-line). “Victor” and “Vitor” may be different places or the same place but they are both on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia.
I’m confused. Fleurieu Peninsula residents where are you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleurieu_Peninsula
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1950s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 9cm high , 6cm wide each
