Post #2383 by fatuhiva on Mon, Jun 17, 2002 10:29 PM

The prices are just going to keep going up over time.

Vintage mugs aren't getting any less rare, and as they find their permanent homes on the shelves of collectors, one could argue that less and less are going to be out in the open market (especially the good ones)

Just like any other collectible, as time passes the price will go up in sync. Tiki mugs actually had a bit of "catching up" to do price-wise, as they were unusually cheap compared to other niches of their genre (space-age mod, 50's kitsch, etc) ..for some reason they had been overlooked as a collectible during the 90's by all except an enlightened few. Those salad days ended with the Book of Tiki, as we knew they rightly would.

Tiki is now officially collectible- even "hot". I strongly doubt it will get any cooler- only more and more frenzied and "serious" as new collectors arrive on the scene and veteran collectors fill in voids in their collections and earn more money. What we are seeing is the simultaneous coming-of-age of a collectible, and a generation working its way up through society's financial ranks.

[ Edited by: fatuhiva on 2002-06-17 22:31 ]