Post #110208 by tikijackalope on Wed, Aug 25, 2004 2:57 PM

Kava King, I've been puzzling over the Witco/not Witco question myself and started a thread for it: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=10281&forum=5&14
Laney (whom I believe to be the justly crowned Queen of Witco) has a thread which has more pieces of the puzzle:
https://tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=3849&forum=5&vpost=34917
Personally, I'd love to see the publication of every scrap of info on Witco...every catalog, interviews with Bill (how's that book going, Sven?), pics of the stuff in furniture store ads, etc. Until that time, even mediocre photocopies of catalogs would be most welcome...anyone got one they can scan and post?
I'd like to know what the burned-finish wood market was like before Witco and what imitators, from within the company and without, it spawned. For that matter, can anyone tell when the company got started and when it wound down?
As to Tiki Junkman's tiki, in my very limited experience, I don't think it is Witco (which in no way demeans it; you should be happy it found you). Bill, via Keigs, would be the last word on its Witco-ness, but I hate asking him so often since he is an artist in his own right and frankly, I'd take a Keigs as fast as I'd snatch up a Witco.
You know, Keigs, if you did a reprint of Witco catalogs, even a cheaply bound one... heck, if you just scanned the things and offered a disc, I bet a bunch of us would buy it. Can we have a show of hands on that?