Post #193755 by Brittanie on Wed, Oct 19, 2005 11:51 PM

I FINALLY registered my own account on TC because I am sick of begging Kilikopela to post on here. I don't claim to know a lot about tiki, and this post will probably be both my first and last to TC, but I wanted to share with you guys.

As some of you may know, we are now living in Korea, and since we've been here, we've found a few cool tiki finds — nothing special, but the fact that we got them here makes them special to us. Anyway, I'll leave that post to him if he ever gets around to it.

Nonetheless, although we are no longer in Houston, we have a good friend there who is a vintage photo dealer, and so she spends most of her days going to antique stores and estate sales. She is under strict orders to look out for good buys for us, especially anything to do with Houston's Trader Vic's or Frankoma stuff (since I'm from Oklahoma I'd like to own some Frankoma tiki).

Anyway, our friend went to the estate sale of a family that had lived several years in Hawaii and came across a lot of authentic tiki and urban tiki. We received the package in the mail a few days ago, and it included a salt and pepper set and a ku-like mug from Ren Clark's! We've never seen these anywhere in Houston before, and I've never seen the ku-inspired mug.

It may not be the Headhunter, but it is a Texas-related item and we didn't have to pay $1400 for them either! It's funny we got these just as Ren Clark's stuff is getting a lot of attention on here lately...

Pictures are up on my web site, http://abroad-abroad.org/index.php/2005/10/20/christmas-done-come-early-yall/. Please ignore the elementary information about tiki collecting, as most of my friends are so not into this stuff and require a lot of backgrounding.

(BTW, Christopher is doing much better. He had his cast removed a few days ago and is now starting to walk around again. We'll be coming back to the states in a week or so for vacation.)