Post #116873 by laney on Tue, Sep 28, 2004 1:10 PM

On 2004-09-10 02:37, TabooDan wrote:
Here's a nice find I had a few weeks back at a flea market. Very nice vintage velvet!
I ran right across the room when I saw her hanging there. I asked the guy how much and he said $30.00. I said "$30.00?" He said "How about $20.00?" I said "sounds good". Paid the man and was grinning the rest of the day. I was just shocked that he was asking $30.00. I thought it would be more. I didn't mean anyhting when I repeated the amount that he said I was just checking out the velvet and thinking about it. Saved myself $10.00 and didn't even have to do anything!! Oh, and that's $20.00 Canadian funds which is like $4.50 US (HA HA!)

I know nothing about this painting and the other day was on ebay and saw a cooking book which has the exact picture of the same girl on it! Pretty cool! The girl jogged my memory now and I went to my Hawaiian album collection and sure enough in my collection was a album form the Polynesian Cultural center advertising Hawaii and sure enough there's a picture of the same girl!! Pretty cool to have a velvet that was done probably from the same photos. Would be a good investigation once I get some time. Thought some of you might be interested. Mahalo! Dan

[ Edited by: TabooDan on 2004-09-10 02:39 ]

Nice find Dan,
I just picked up a "Flowers of Hawaii" small book C. 1964. There are several pics of Hawaiian beauties. One picture is that exact girl and pose. The caption..."Hawaii's Poster Girl...beautiful Rose Marie Alvaro, seen in a setting of Hilo-grown orchids"

So there's a name to the face!