How long since Augusta in Western Australia’s Southwest would have been associated with aboriginal culture from a tourist point of view? How long since an aboriginal figure would have been used as an advertisment for the town? I can’t see it happening these days. I holidayed there as a child for many years and don’t remember a single mention of the original people. This makes this mug quite old and quite sad.
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The age of the souvenir has passed methinks… in some ways good, some ways sad.
I treasured my ‘coffin ashtray’ that bore the motto, ‘Poor old Fred, he smoked in bed – Greetings from Rottnest’. And the coconut monkey with wire glasses was a corker…
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Put that ashtray on eBay and I will pay any price, Cookster.
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According to this tourism.heritage.wa.gov.au/ht_pdf/AugustaBusselton.pdf
it was the Koombarnup people of Bunbury who used the area for hunting ‘tho the actual situation in that area was probably more complicated,( Need an expert).
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I like to think that it was made by someone’s aboriginiphiliac Aunt Augusta. Not likely of course but I like the idea of a little auntie who makes dozens of these things each year to send to reluctant relatives. In fact, the truncated writing probably reads “BIRTHDAY Greetings from Augusta”
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forces, I can’t believe you know that! Thats actually my Aunt Augusta, and if you like her cups then you should see her jugs.
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Boom! Tish!
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Her cups floweth over A P ??
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Yes, thank-you I’ll be here all week and don’t forget to tip the waitress
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DC – alas, it got turfed some years back, along with a collection of Mad Magazines from the US dating back to 1964, my Great Grandad’s war medals, some nice Wembley Ware, a rare ‘woggle’ and an assortment of autographs from the West Perth team of 1973. Bitter? Fucking outraged!!!
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Cookster @ 9
Divorced?
Or just a cranky ladyfriend?
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Rolly, neither of the above, well… cranky I guess. Twas my mum conducting a clean out of goods in storage at the old family home while I was living in Melbourne.
The MAD mags, however, I think were sold off by a sibling… along with a rather nifty telescope.
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