In the exchange of international trade, buyers and sellers send each other a souvenir, sometimes can increase understanding, is conducive to further development, here is a part of the souvenirs I have received over the years, let's take a look at what foreigners will send.
1) Stone pen holder
Stone pen holder • Madagascar
This was given to me by my Malagasy client at an exhibition in Shanghai, and on the right is the hole in the pen, the base resembles our brick, and the vertical is a map of Madagascar, which is studded with metal traveler bananas, which should be the national tree of the country.
Map of Madagascar
Madagascar National Tree • Traveler Banana
Did the guest introduce me to his country nicely? Without this souvenir, I wouldn't really know about the traveler banana.
2) Metal vase
Turkish vase
This is a souvenir given to me by a Turkish customer, I don't know if it is copper, at first glance it looks a bit like our cloisonné. There are relief patterns around the vase, which from the outside looks a bit like welding, but the inside of the bottle is not suspected of welding, and it is not clear what process is made. This souvenir is closer to our culture and, if not Turkish, can easily be considered our design idea. I still don't know the commemorative significance of this vase, is it also a traditional handicraft of theirs? (Do you have any friends who know?) Please point)
3) Ice hockey
ice hockey
signature
Obviously, this is a friend from Canada sent me, he lives in Brampton, BEAST is a local ice hockey team, belongs to the ECHL league, such a thing is ice hockey, I also touched for the first time, and I imagined that there is still a difference, generally think that the ball is round, can not think of ice hockey like a cake, even if it is rugby, there is also a similar appearance of the ball, and ice hockey can be said to be out of the basic concept of the ball. One year when I went to Canada, he invited me to watch a BEAST team game, I didn't know anything about the rules of ice hockey, I saw it in the clouds, after the game, he gave me the ball for this game, and there was the signature of the goal team member, which was also the first time I knew ice hockey and its sport.
4) Gorch Fock 1958 sailing model
Gorch Fock 1958
This is a motorcycle enthusiast in Hamburg, Germany, sent me, it seems that he also likes sailing, he bought me hundreds of motorcycles and thousands of engines, and even our Yangtze River 750 side three-wheeler, is a motorcycle sports fever oil. This model sailboat was given to me when he came to Ningbo for the second time. The Gorch Fock was a three-masted ship, built by the Blåm-Foss Shipyard on August 23, 1958, a replica of the old Gorch Fock of 1933, which I think is probably a ship that the Germans are proud of.
Very curious how to put this model in the bottle?.
5) Board world map
Plank map
It's a map of the world on a wooden board, and the text is in French, like a map in a wooden frame, which is not the same as the arrangement of our Chinese, the Atlantic Ocean is arranged in the middle, and we like to put China and the Pacific Ocean in the middle.
6) Hut model
White Christmas
This is a model of a hut, there is snow on the house, there are snowmen and Christmas trees in front of the door, it seems that they are having a white Christmas, but now Europeans and Americans, Canadians want to have a white Christmas, in many cases need to try their luck, even in Canada, the Christmas ground is not necessarily white Alas, it is more likely that the snow is stained with dirty things! And we have to have a snowy Spring Festival here, which is even more of a luxury.
7) Various books
Books of all kinds, especially atlases, are the ones I've received the most, so come and see them.
Hamburg, Germany
Israel
New Zealand
A century of automotive history
Paris, France
These souvenirs are very meaningful, it can be said that I made a mark on the trade trajectory, and some of them are shown here, which is also a kind of memory.