Post #338565 by Psycho Tiki D on Mon, Oct 15, 2007 12:58 PM

The other one was a ultra-hip Witco tiki lamp with a shade that had three wood tiki's even spaced around the very large tapa-cloth-esqe shade and a full tiki at the bottom. I haven't seen one yet here on TC, but it was magnificent. It was still dark out at the antique fair in Alameda, but they wanted $350 for it and it would have completely wiped out my funds for the day. When I went back, it was still there, but the guy right behind me earlier bought it...and he came back to pick it up and I just stood there watching the lamp in all it's beauty walk away in the arms of another man...:(

Uh, that would have been me! However, I did not purchase said lamp. I did return the next month (September) only to find the seller did not come back over the Labor Day weekend. I did locate her in October, except she had brought her grandchildren with her and did not bring the lamp due to space constraints. I have made arrangements to purchase said lamp, the seller is out of Nevada and I am going to her house in the next couple of weeks to pick it up. She is willing to take $300.00 for it now. I will post pictures when I pick it up.

As a side note; in my pre-tiki days, while frequenting the local flea market, one elderly gentleman used to have this horrible looking piece of ceramic set out with his other stuff week after week. I used to think to myself "who would ever buy that piece of crap"? Turns out it was a Don the Beachcomber head mug (I thought it looked liked a horrible Colonel Sanders yellow vase). I know better now!

PTD