Post #107523 by TabooDan on Tue, Aug 10, 2004 12:31 PM

Myself, Dan, and Reid-O from Taboo Tiki, both collect. That can sometimes be quite challenging to get to the goods first. There's been a few near scraps and over couch diving been going on up here! That's probably why we try not to go hunting together. I went out to a thrift shop near here and when I pulled into the parking lot my heart skipped several beats! I could see it from inside my truck! There, hanging in the window was this large Tiki mask carving. I recognize the style but... could it be??
I don't even remember getting out of the vehicle. Just remember being stuck to the window with drool sticking me to the glass. Sure enough a Witco carved mask! It had to be. It was identical to the mask that is on the bar in the Book of Tiki out of the Witco catalog.
I managed to get my face unstuck and then it set in. "Things in Window Not for Sale until Saturday". I don't know if your Thrift shops do that, but here everyone of them does. And of-course this was the weekend I had plans to go away. Well, change the plans or cancel them. I talked to Reid-O at work about this great find and sure enough at the same time I was telling him he was telling me the same thing. Needless to say I went away that weekend (Girlfriend made me!)and he scored the big guy. You have to get there early because there is alot of other things in the window and the lineups start early. He got there at about 6:00AM(They don't even open until 10:00AM)and there was already two people ahead of him. They were there for some china so the mask was his! Price tag: $17.50.
That's $17.50 Canadian which is about $13.00 US!!
Oh well, atleast it is in the Taboo Tiki collection!
Check out these pictures of it hanging up in the store! I'll add another one of it at his place if you're interested later.

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