Post #593626 by Bay Park Buzzy on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 11:39 AM

It seems like there were at least two periods where they manufactured the Alii golds. The "subtle" alii golds were the older ones. Those tikis in that picture are those type and were marked 68.
The other tiki you posted is probably late 80's, or early 90's version of alli golds. Those were black resin spray painted gold and were light plastic feeling, as opposed to the older denser ones whick look like they may have added metallic dust to the resin to make it kind of illuminate. they remind me of those cars that cahnge color when you change you line of sight.
The alii golds are marked as such on the bottoms, and had a different looking tag/book than the regular cocojoes line. The later ones had a specific logo impressioned on the bottom of the pieces to identify them as such. The largest piece in my collection is one of the later Alii gold Lonos. I think it's about 16-18 inches tall. I have a later catalog with them in it, and there were probably about 15-20 different pieces available at that time

Some pictures:

Subtle old bottom

Liberace style tag

There are two older Pele pieces that I can recall. there are also about 10-12 common head/faces coming out of lava from the early days. Not Peles, mostly faces.

...and there are new and strange pieces popping up all the time

Buzzy Out!