Post #371393 by ManFromT.I.K.I. on Thu, Apr 3, 2008 5:00 PM

Ooops, I don't post here too often, and I didn't see your reply, or else I would have responded.

Actually, it's funny because I wouldn't have taken another look at this old thread at all for updates, but for the fact that I was just at this shop again today and checked on the stacked tiki. It's near the place where I had gone back to pick up a couple of Strikow pieces I posted about in another thread.

Anyway, yes that's the one! (Could there be another?) Funny that you saw it too. It's still sitting there at $295. I might think to make an offer of $100, since I could take it or leave it, but I'd probably get laughed at, which wouldn't be Ku . . . er, I mean cool. It's obvious the seller thinks very highly of it.

My sense of it is that the seller is ambivalent about selling it, since it's an attention getter for his racks of "vintage" aloha shirts next to it.

Yes, while I have made some modest lucky finds, in general, the central/southern Oregon coast is pretty much a tiki wasteland. My finds, such as they are, seem to come in bunches. Aside from the aforementioned pieces, I have found four mugs in the last few weeks or so. I'm going to post them in the "finds" thread.

Oh yeah, you are right about the glass floats--lots around here. Now, if only I can find one washed up on the beach sometime, and not in a shop. My "holy grail" find!