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Post #447868 by Koolau on Fri, Apr 17, 2009 11:25 PM

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Nice little article in today's Honolulu Star Bulletin discussing carved wood perfume bottles produced from the '30s through the '60s:

http://www.starbulletin.com/features/featuresstories/20090417_carved_scentsations.html

Certainly more Hawaiiana than tiki, but there is a tiki bottle:

Along with standard Hawaii imagery:

I'd never really thought about these perfume containers, although I have run across them. Always interesting to see what other collect.