Helping all to find your # 1 mug...UPDATED 7/23/05! - Collecting Tiki

STCB Sabu The Coconut Boy Tiki Socialite Carson, California Joined: Aug 20, 2002 Posts: 2807	STCB Sabu The Coconut Boy Posted posted on Wed, Mar 30, 2005 10:27 AM I have many holy grails, (including that Bumatay mug), but since I value local history most, I would choose the old Sam's Seafood Maori tiki mug as my number 1 goal. Here you can see them sitting on the gift-store shelves in an old Sam's Seafood postcard: The mug matches the logo on the menu and matchbooks and is a classic Maori design that appears on many New Zealand postcards: If you look at the first postcard, you can also see some giant volcano bowls on the floor featuring three of these tikis. Here's the inside of the menu, which shows both the mug and bowl: As far as I know, Traderpup is the only person to have seen one of these mugs appear on Ebay, and that was over four years ago. No one's ever seen the bowl outside the postcard, as far as I know. Gotta be one of the rarest custom designs out there. Sabu

I have many holy grails, (including that Bumatay mug), but since I value local history most, I would choose the old Sam's Seafood Maori tiki mug as my number 1 goal.

Here you can see them sitting on the gift-store shelves in an old Sam's Seafood postcard:

The mug matches the logo on the menu and matchbooks and is a classic Maori design that appears on many New Zealand postcards:

If you look at the first postcard, you can also see some giant volcano bowls on the floor featuring three of these tikis. Here's the inside of the menu, which shows both the mug and bowl:

As far as I know, Traderpup is the only person to have seen one of these mugs appear on Ebay, and that was over four years ago. No one's ever seen the bowl outside the postcard, as far as I know. Gotta be one of the rarest custom designs out there.

Sabu

Post #150117 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Wed, Mar 30, 2005 10:27 AM