{"id":931,"date":"2014-09-03T18:34:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T08:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2016-01-20T13:57:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T03:57:31","slug":"cooma-new-south-wales-australia-ornament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"COOMA, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA – Ornament"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cooma<\/a>PLACE REPRESENTED:\u00a0Cooma, New South Wales\u00a0,\u00a0Australia<\/p>\n

ITEM:\u00a0ornament<\/p>\n

NOTES:\u00a0A 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.<\/p>\n

Waste not , want not, huh?<\/p>\n

Cooma is no where near the coast either so I’m not sure about the whole boat choice.<\/p>\n

As far as I know neither the Dutch nor the Spanish colonised Cooma, but\u00a0I wouldn’t put it past them.<\/p>\n

Cooma, though, did become the headquarters of the Snowy Mountains Scheme (a hydroelectricity , irrigation, and dam complex\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

YEAR (APPROXIMATE):\u00a01960s<\/p>\n

MADE FROM:\u00a0wood<\/p>\n

MADE IN: \u00a0unknown<\/p>\n

MANUFACTURER:\u00a0unknown<\/p>\n

DIMENSIONS:\u00a015cm\u00a0high\u00a0,\u00a06cm\u00a0long<\/p>\n

\"Cooma<\/a>\"Cooma<\/a>\"Cooma<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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