Post #566055 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Nov 22, 2010 9:25 AM

Wow, those United Airlines Tikis are a great find...one would be already, but two!? Did you get them from a collector? Expensive? These are good times for Tiki buying!

On 2010-11-22 07:14, Tiki-Atari wrote:

This popped up in a local shop. About 40 inches long, sparkly paint (possibly puff paint?) on black velvet. The detail is so defined, I wonder if it was based off a picture or postcard of an actual place? The manufacturer appears to still exist at the same address.

Ha! Book of Tiki, page 136. And here's the postcard it is based on, they just left the "MAI KAI" signage off the poles :

Actually, this is the shorter version, it exists as an extra wide-screen version that matches the size and composition of the black velvet rendering. The only example of that I ever saw was in the Oceanic Arts archive, but it disappeared before I could duplicate it! :cry:

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2010-11-23 14:17 ]