Post #289790 by atomictonytiki on Mon, Mar 5, 2007 10:55 AM

Excusing the terrible digital photo's, its been a very good tiki hunting season, I've found recently a Italian coconut mug, a pod-wood Ku mug, a couple of wooden tourist Maori tikis, a matchbook for the "Beachcomber resort motel" and these two HIP products, a sexy wee Hula girl and a "hauoli akua - happy god" tiki (which has been broken in half at some point and suffers the "coco-joes droop").

..and then this weekend, whilst dragging myself around a car-boot sale, I spotted this mug face down in a junk box at the side of a stall. I simply couldn't believe it, I reached down and turned it over and read "Don the Beachcomber" I almost screamed but i had to put on my most severe poker face unless i alerted the seller to my desire. I swear the world went quite, I went into shock, I nearly dropped the mug, I had to appear uninterested in the mug so I went through the rest of the box incase other mugs were hiding, chipped plates and broken toys.
I asked the seller "how much this vase?" (I make a point of never referring to the things i buy by name in case the sellers do research on there own)and the guy said "aw 50p for that". At that moment I was pretty sure I was still asleep and this was a dream, but I handed over my 50p (that's $0.96)and floated away.

One of the best things about this find apart from finding one of the rare high-rolling signature tiki mugs for less than the cost of cup of tea, was that just two stalls along was the car-boot dealer who'd charged me £4.00 for a Tiki Lelani Mug.