Post #382784 by Swamp Tiki on Tue, May 27, 2008 6:41 PM

I stumbled up on this in a junk store the other day and wore it around on my finger until I made it up to the register. I bought it for a sawbuck and wandered out quite puzzled as to what is could have been used for.

Getting home, I fired up the 'ole database and began searching for anything on Shipwreck Kelly's - Waikiki. The restaurant seems to have opened in the late 1950s and reached its zenith in the 1960s. It was a popular nautical themed restaurant with nightly shows with decent headliners of the day. I have since found out that Shipwreck Kelly's opened a couple of West Coast locations at some point before it finally closed. I'm guessing that it must have been similar to Dante's Down-The-Hatch (for you fellow Atlantans out there...).

I do not know much more than that. If this info is not completely correct, somebody step in and set the record straight. As for this item, it is approximately two and a half inches long and is signed with "sss" on the bottom. This is the same moniker seen on the Tahitian Lanai mugs. The glaze is also the same. The dorsal fin is obviously the handle... I have not seen one of these before and am very interested to know its original function.

Mahalo.

Swamp

[ Edited by: Swamp Tiki 2008-05-27 18:45 ]

[ Edited by: Swamp Tiki 2008-05-27 18:47 ]