Post #496665 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Dec 1, 2009 2:40 PM

He he he...check out THIS beauty!:

But don't worry folks, I don't own any of the items I posted, they're all clipped from e-bay Germany (and I think I just seriously damaged my chances of affording one by posting them! :) )

I just have some of the standard American stuff, like this lil vase

It almost fits on THIS container :D

Here's my only piece from a flea market in Germany:

And back to the States, here a nice modernist 14 inch plate by Marc Bellaire:

And last not least this fine lamp is from Duke Carter's collection:

The fact that Europe had so much more of these African Exotica clearly has to do with the lack of, and distance to, a black population and the social issues resulting from that, allowing people to "exoticise" the theme in a more naive and carefree manner -just like the U.S. mainland's distance to Polynesia left people free to fantasize about it more here than on Hawaii.

In the works: Safari matchbooks and Witco Africana!

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2009-12-02 08:29 ]