Here's my last month's worth of thrift store/estate sale treasures:
top row: Three westwood mugs, a Kon-Tiki salt shaker, EFFCo ??, random skull mug. Bottom row: tiki spoon (back), Island girl with hut (more below), Trader Vic's coconut w/happy Menehune couple (made in Japan w/filthy sticks!), four beautiful barrel mugs marked only "Japan", a pair of Coco Lopez Pina Colada glasses w/recipe on the side, unmarked mug.
Here's a slightly better look at the "native" girl by her hut. She has nifty metal earrings and is marked "Hollywood ceramics".
Coconut monkey, three masks, risque nutcracker, more monkeys. I seriously can't seem to go to goodwill without finding one of these monkeys. They all seem to have glasses for some reason...
Closer detail of my girlie nutcracker. Hubba hubba!
Two lanterns. I thought they were nautical, but research tells me the one on the right at least was used in the railroads. No wonder I couldn't find a green one. Beautiful nonetheless.
Last but not least, something I picked up on a whim, even though it's not my thing...
Literally the night after I bought this little fellow, this thread turned into "Owl Central". Eerie.
Oh, late addition, this Parksmith "Goddess of Fertility" as well as the previous Westwood mugs were given to me by a friend of my wife, and the TV Pacific Island Cookbook was spotted on an estate sale bookshelf by beloved betrothed.
That's all for now. Hopefully this next month will bring more treasures. Happy hunting!
-Joe
