Post #452058 by TIKIBOSKO on Wed, May 6, 2009 9:34 AM

It is hard to say if the piece is a Witco from the picture shown the frame looks it. But Sven is correct the line flow is a little much and the orange bar is making it look Witco-ish by association.
Having said that they (Witco) did do dolphins they had some at the Leilani Lanes in Seattle. We went by 10-12 years ago and asked where all the (Tiki) carvings (they had recently remodeled) had gone. A surly employee took us to the back room where they were storing "them". Them being a pile of Witco style dolphins stacked against the wall and they were keeping "them" for their conference room. Unfortunately no Tiki's there, which led to my asking a bunch of odd questions which she couldn't answer/understand and we were shown the door.

So you see Sven there must have been a period of transition (stylistically speaking) from Tiki to fern bar and dolphins must have been the overlap carving that got establishments though that awkward phase.

I did manage to find a Hawaiian Village mug at a thrift around the corner so the afternoon wasn't a total waste.

Bosko