Post #436892 by Ojaitimo on Fri, Feb 27, 2009 5:35 PM

On 2009-02-25 08:52, GatorRob wrote:
Very nice, if haphazardly arranged, collection. And very cool that you located a couple of Ben's lost carvings! You didn't happen to spot any of his giant redwood tikis hiding under a table or something?

The Tiki you are referring to were taken from the Flamingo Hotel and are somewhere in So Cal. Benzart heard from a guy who knew the guy who had two or three of the big redwood tiki. There is a thread on the Tropicana carving post about it
Dr. Hammargren does have a 72 foot canoe he brought back from a trip. Probably more Tiki there, I only saw about half of his place this time.

This was a piece that was inside the Smithsonian to honor the US and Soviet space link up in 1975. When the USSR collapsed some of the artists showed up at the Smithsonian and claimed their work. This was one of the pieces that was auctioned off.