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I own a hard boiled egg cutter made in West Germany.
West Germany, i.e. the Federal Republic of Germany (the official title) still exists, since the GDR just joined the FRG, i.e. it's the same country, just larger. :P
I have a small cup made in the DDR.
Quote from: Syt on November 24, 2021, 04:23:37 PM
West Germany, i.e. the Federal Republic of Germany (the official title) still exists, since the GDR just joined the FRG, i.e. it's the same country, just larger. :P
The GDR was also always part of Germany, just under a different constitutional order. Germany considers itself the same country legally as the North German Federation that was founded after the Austro-Prussian War in 1867.
I have a nik-nak from Yugoslavia.
I have an old movie camera made in the DDR.
A Yugoslavian bank note.
And if I looked through my mementos from my Erasmus in the Czech Republic I guess I would find something made in Czekoslovakia.
And does Catalan Republic stuff count, too? :P
Was Catalonia ever really a separate country? It's not the same as Aragon I guess...
Quote from: Syt on November 24, 2021, 04:23:37 PM
West Germany, i.e. the Federal Republic of Germany (the official title) still exists, since the GDR just joined the FRG, i.e. it's the same country, just larger. :P
I find it even more grating in Paris or major cities where you don't have to go very far to find the official names as in embassies and/or consulates.
The Federal Republic of Germany (RFA in French) not existing anymore is a common misconception. I either remind people they are mixing up with the GDR/RDA or tell them to use (West) Germany instead since East Germany was a puppet régime. :P
I still have somewhere a German language book (a novel about Spartacus) that was printed in the USSR in 1939.
Quote from: Zanza on November 24, 2021, 04:40:48 PM
Was Catalonia ever really a separate country? It's not the same as Aragon I guess...
Ok, speaking half-seriously. I can get technical and argue that Spain was formally a PU until the XVIIIth century :contract: so I would have stuff (some family antiques) made in Aragon (a PU itself, too...).
Regarding if Catalonia was ever a separate country, the Catalan Republic briefly existed in the 1640s, I have stuff from the XVIIth century (documents) but I don't think from those exact dates. :P
Quote from: Zanza on November 24, 2021, 04:40:48 PM
Was Catalonia ever really a separate country? It's not the same as Aragon I guess...
Maybe he means the short-lived (8 full seconds!) one from 2017. :P
Quote from: The Larch on November 24, 2021, 04:54:56 PM
Quote from: Zanza on November 24, 2021, 04:40:48 PM
Was Catalonia ever really a separate country? It's not the same as Aragon I guess...
Maybe he means the short-lived (8 full seconds!) one from 2017. :P
That was the joke, yeah :P
I have some souvenirs from my trip to the Soviet Union. Some stuff from the Tokugawa Shogunate, which I suppose probably counts as Japan. I generally don't own a lot of pre-17th century stuff, which would increase the likelihood.
Somewhere I have a small picture from the US in the 1850s when it was still a democracy.
Quote from: PDH on November 24, 2021, 05:29:30 PM
Somewhere I have a small picture from the US in the 1850s when it was still a democracy.
:huh:
I picked up some postcards from the Soviet Union while in Hungary in 2008.
I have a 17th century map of Rome made in The Papal States.
Lots of Soviet stuff, including a "Leningrad Yacht Club" sweatshirt that was not a joke.
Quote from: PDH on November 24, 2021, 05:29:30 PM
Somewhere I have a small picture from the US in the 1850s when it was still a democracy.
:D
That'd be before our "succession" crisis?
I don't own her, but my wife was born in the Soviet Union.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 24, 2021, 07:09:49 PM
I don't own her, but my wife was born in the Soviet Union.
Maybe she was made on a holiday trip?
My mind it was made in a far away land a long time ago. :ph34r:
Off the top of my head, Soviet cameras including a Lomo LCA a Lubitel 166, a thingy/zorki light meter and a very heavy small table vice.
I've an enlarger somewhere which was made in communist Czechoslovakia
A pair of East German 'Zeiss' binoculars.
What's a real rarity now are things stamped with 'Made In England' and that won't change not matter what Johnson's little englander project results in. The only recent thing I recall with it on is a quality dumbell spanner made by Weldtite up in Tyr's neck of the woods.
A bit of a cheat perhaps............I have a stamp collection. So there are stamps from various colonies, Austria-Hungary, the constituent states that became the German Empire and oddities like Saarland and Danzig. Also some items from colonial Singapore and Hong Kong...a table, chest, paintings etc.
some old toys from West Germany, from when we lived there
I have tons of stuff made in the USSR. Most of it still is in good shape/works. :P
Quote from: Solmyr on November 25, 2021, 04:33:21 AM
I have tons of stuff made in the USSR. Most of it still is in good shape/works. :P
A neck, only shot once?