Post #3749 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Jul 15, 2002 9:44 AM

This is amazing! I gotta try this more often:
Preach the gospel of Tiki preservation, than picture a rare piece of Tiki pottery, close my eyes and say "I want one" (see above).

This is what happened: Apparently my sister, who lives in Hamburg (9/11 pilot training town), was visiting some relatives in Heidelberg a few days ago and saw this curious Tiki vessel in an Antique shop, labelled as Art Deco, with three Tikis holding a bowl with red and black leaves...
Faster than you can say "Okolehao" I sent her the above e-bay link and it checked out.

Now you just don't go out antique shopping in Germany and find Tiki mugs...anywhere, ever! (The only Tiki mug made in Germany is probably the one featured on the Hukilau info home page, otherwise there is Trader Vic's and a few Thai restaurants that serve cocktails in Tiki pottery).

Still, the bowl is a whopping 150.- Euro (=$)
But she has some dude from California visiting her next week, so transportation is secured. It is as if Tiki heard me.

Now HOW THE did a SCA bowl ever get to Heidelberg? American students?...German alcoholics?... G.I.s?

The ways of Tiki are mysterious...

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2002-07-15 09:50 ]