Post #54985 by Kono on Mon, Oct 13, 2003 6:45 PM

Dang! That pic looks much better on my computer, not so good here.

Here's Saturday's crop:

Got tired of going to thrift stores and finding nothing so we went to an antique store that we hadn't been to in a while. Not as cheap but actually found some stuff! Found a neat painting of Diamond Head and a rattan lamp perfect for my future tiki bar.

That tiki on the left was marked as being from Tahiti but who knows. On the bottom it has written "Tanga Loa." The little dude with the necklace was marked as being from Bora Bora and, appropriately enough, has "Bora Bora" carved on the back. These guys weren't too cheap.

These guys were really cheap. The two up front are wooden s/p shakers and the two in back are a mystery. Those tikis or totems have Chinese(?) or related script down the front. Most tikis I've ever found in one day in Florida.

Question: in this one antique store, there's this large gray or silver, foam type Moai that is a big tiki torch. It's maybe two foot high. On the bottom it says "Howard Fine (or "Kine??" working from memory) Studio 2002." Ever heard of it? I did a search and found nothing. They wanted $90 for it. I told 'em I'd have to research it a bit.