I just found authentic American Somoa Tapa Cloth in my Home! Page 2 - Collecting Tiki

F Formikahini Tiki Socialite Houston, Texotica Joined: Aug 22, 2002 Posts: 1514	F Formikahini Posted posted on Tue, Mar 7, 2006 3:05 PM Lucky bastard. My grandparents and greatgrandparents (who did have some money back then) bought reproduction French froo-froo furniture in the 1920's (e.g., painted marbletop "commodes"(chests) when they COULD have bought: A.) REAL antiques from the 1800's B.) Cool-ass Art Nouveau items/furniture, cast-off and passe by the '20's C.) Cooler-ass Art Deco anything, all the rage then D.) Art from then not-very-known artists around the freakin' world (Picasso, French anybody, ah-hell-you-name-it) E.) Anything cool and ethnic But no. Reproduction French Louis Whichever sht. I HATE froo-froo French furniture, even more when it's repro!! Porcelain lamps with shepherdesses and lotsa....uh...froo-froo sticky-out details on it (what else do you CALL that stuff??). HIDeous. I mean, it's worth something to people who love that kind of stuff, and you can believe my siblings and I will be selling it to them come the day!! And sadly, all the family money is now gone (baaaaad business decisions through the decades, e.g, the great-uncle who told my newly-widowed grandmother in the late '40's, "Sell the lumberyard [one of the TOPS in Texas at that time]; you're a woman - you don't want to deal with business matters! Just sell it and get cash.") The coolest thing I have from them is a photo of my maternal grandparents wearing mariachi/maja outfits for "Charro Days" in Brownsville. I'd LOVE to find a trunk of tapa!! Congrats, PockyT! May the treasures continue to fall into your lap (and my your family make better businessmen than mine did) :)

Lucky b*astard.

My grandparents and greatgrandparents (who did have some money back then) bought reproduction French froo-froo furniture in the 1920's (e.g., painted marbletop "commodes"(chests) when they COULD have bought:

A.) REAL antiques from the 1800's
B.) Cool-ass Art Nouveau items/furniture, cast-off and passe by the '20's
C.) Cooler-ass Art Deco anything, all the rage then
D.) Art from then not-very-known artists around the freakin' world (Picasso, French anybody, ah-hell-you-name-it)
E.) Anything cool and ethnic

But no.
Reproduction French Louis Whichever sh*t. I HATE froo-froo French furniture, even more when it's repro!! Porcelain lamps with shepherdesses and lotsa....uh...froo-froo sticky-out details on it (what else do you CALL that stuff??). HIDeous. I mean, it's worth something to people who love that kind of stuff, and you can believe my siblings and I will be selling it to them come the day!!

And sadly, all the family money is now gone (baaaaad business decisions through the decades, e.g, the great-uncle who told my newly-widowed grandmother in the late '40's, "Sell the lumberyard [one of the TOPS in Texas at that time]; you're a woman - you don't want to deal with business matters! Just sell it and get cash.")

The coolest thing I have from them is a photo of my maternal grandparents wearing mariachi/maja outfits for "Charro Days" in Brownsville.

I'd LOVE to find a trunk of tapa!! Congrats, PockyT! May the treasures continue to fall into your lap (and my your family make better businessmen than mine did) :)

Post #219432 by Formikahini on Tue, Mar 7, 2006 3:05 PM