Post #292104 by Swanky on Thu, Mar 15, 2007 12:37 PM

No, as far I know, there is no production run information out there. There may be an exception for the American major factories like Imperial glass and a few others that sort of crossed over on occasion like Hoffman, Haeger and McCoy. I don't know if anyone has ever gotten thst info, but it may already be in some book somewhere.

The problems with a tiki mug price guide type of book are A) there is a vast expanse of different mugs and bowls in existense and cataloguing them would be a huge undertaking and B) the life of mug collecting is really about 5 years old at best, more like 3 years old. You can't build a good price on that little info. The prices are always going up and down and often seem to just creep up and up and up.

I would love to see everything cataloged, photgraphed and everything possible noted about the mugs. There have been rumors that such a work is being tackled by Otto or some other person. Duke put a nice dent in the idea. What he says in Tiki Quest is becoming gospel and reference, whether he wanted it that way or not.

All that information is still pretty spotty and will likely remain that way for a long time. If someone had a mind to make that book, they could do it fairly easily though by simply... Well, wait. I don't want to give any ideas. I might make that book!