FS: Original Saloon Doors from the Tropics (PS CAL) Made by Leroy Schmaltz - Tiki Marketplace

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Dec 17, 2013 7:54 PM Thank you…strangely so, I have yet to hear from the gentleman who initially deemed me worthy of these items. As answer, I sent two p.m.s yesterday, and left one phone message this morning and one this afternoon: No reaction. I can only imagine that my post telling him that the pieces would be shown in a museum in Paris sounded so fantastic that a.) he believes I am putting him on. or b.) that these doors must be worth something close to the Mona Lisa - neither being the case. I would guess it must be hard for an outsider to understand how on one side there is this great passion forTiki, but on the other it is truly not commercially driven, and that the number of Tiki aficionados out there is really quite small. The two ideas I have for the doors seem to ideally suit the sellers goal of having these pieces appreciated, first by a world-wide audience through the museum exhibit (and the book that comes out with it), and then locally, back in the desert, at the Palm Springs Tonga Hut. Plus Amy and Murph would have the financial where-with-all to match the offers by others who could not provide the platform I can for the doors. Has anybody here gotten their p.m.s answered, or talked to the guy by phone? I am beginning to wonder if this is some kind of hoax...

Thank you…strangely so, I have yet to hear from the gentleman who initially deemed me worthy of these items. As answer, I sent two p.m.s yesterday, and left one phone message this morning and one this afternoon: No reaction.

I can only imagine that my post telling him that the pieces would be shown in a museum in Paris sounded so fantastic that a.) he believes I am putting him on. or b.) that these doors must be worth something close to the Mona Lisa - neither being the case.

I would guess it must be hard for an outsider to understand how on one side there is this great passion forTiki, but on the other it is truly not commercially driven, and that the number of Tiki aficionados out there is really quite small.

The two ideas I have for the doors seem to ideally suit the sellers goal of having these pieces appreciated, first by a world-wide audience through the museum exhibit (and the book that comes out with it), and then locally, back in the desert, at the Palm Springs Tonga Hut. Plus Amy and Murph would have the financial where-with-all to match the offers by others who could not provide the platform I can for the doors.

Has anybody here gotten their p.m.s answered, or talked to the guy by phone? I am beginning to wonder if this is some kind of hoax...

Post #702363 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Dec 17, 2013 7:54 PM