Orchids Volcano Bowl Question - Collecting Tiki

T tikijackalope Tiki Socialite KS/MO Joined: Oct 23, 2003 Posts: 835	T tikijackalope Posted posted on Tue, Jan 13, 2004 9:37 PM I have an age question on these myself. I just purchased an R-94 from the manager of a bar and it has "Japan" on the bottom. He said it was "old stock" but I suspect it was Dynasty. The detail on mine is not quite as crisp as that in the gallery pic: http://www.tikiroom.net/gallery/orchids/aab and I had to look through the several available to find one in which the paint (or glaze) matched the contour on which it belonged (i.e eyes painted over appropriate places on face of hula girl). The accuracy of color application on most of the ones I saw really sucked. The mold mine was produced from looks to be a bit different than that used for the one in the gallery pic as the indentations do not corrolate the same way with the hula dancer. Its quite possible that Dynasty does not bother to alter the molds to eliminate the JAPAN or TAIWAN. In my previous experience collecting toys I saw cases of old 1950's and 60's figures being cranked out anew with no mold alteration; there was usually some deterioration or some other dead giveaway though. Production of some figurines (i.e. metal SRG dinosaurs) had a slow steady deterioration so you could not really tell when the original company stopped making them from molds which had already worn somewhat and when the new owners started using those molds. Perhaps it is the same way with OoH and Dynasty. [ Edited by: tikijackalope on 2004-01-13 21:43 ] [ Edited by: tikijackalope on 2004-01-13 21:47 ]

I have an age question on these myself. I just purchased an R-94 from the manager of a bar and it has "Japan" on the bottom. He said it was "old stock" but I suspect it was Dynasty. The detail on mine is not quite as crisp as that in the gallery pic:
http://www.tikiroom.net/gallery/orchids/aab and I had to look through the several available to find one in which the paint (or glaze) matched the contour on which it belonged (i.e eyes painted over appropriate places on face of hula girl). The accuracy of color application on most of the ones I saw really sucked. The mold mine was produced from looks to be a bit different than that used for the one in the gallery pic as the indentations do not corrolate the same way with the hula dancer.
Its quite possible that Dynasty does not bother to alter the molds to eliminate the JAPAN or TAIWAN. In my previous experience collecting toys I saw cases of old 1950's and 60's figures being cranked out anew with no mold alteration; there was usually some deterioration or some other dead giveaway though. Production of some figurines (i.e. metal SRG dinosaurs) had a slow steady deterioration so you could not really tell when the original company stopped making them from molds which had already worn somewhat and when the new owners started using those molds. Perhaps it is the same way with OoH and Dynasty.

[ Edited by: tikijackalope on 2004-01-13 21:43 ]

[ Edited by: tikijackalope on 2004-01-13 21:47 ]

Post #69422 by tikijackalope on Tue, Jan 13, 2004 9:37 PM