tiki mug questions on trader vics - Collecting Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sun, Jan 18, 2004 8:12 PM Don't do it, mate, what you wanna look for is the GLASS version of that mug. In his 1952 book "Kitchen Kibitzer (BOT p.49) the Trader writes: "... a drink I've named Gun Club Punch because it is served in a glass that looks like a shotgun shell -GREEN GLASS with a gold base." Now THAT would be worth 40.- bucks, not the ceramic one Trader Vic's started using in the 90s when they ran out of all their glasses. The glass is much finer, the ceramic is kind of plump and crude. I only ever saw ONE glass of that one, it was served to me with the excellent "Elephant Hunter" cocktail at the Rum Trader in Berlin. The same goes for the Port and Starboard Light glasses on page 45 that you mentioned. Those cocktails used to come in these green and red glasses which are ment to resemble the lights of the same name on a ship's super structure. The ones in the Kahiki display on page 45 are the originals, I have a red one out of ribbed glass with the thin goldpainted cross ribs intact. Often that gold has been rubbed of by too many dishwasher runs. T.V.'s also replaced those with crude ceramic ones, which does not make much sense since lamps are not meant to be opaque. Another lost tradition.

Don't do it, mate, what you wanna look for is the GLASS version of that mug. In his 1952 book "Kitchen Kibitzer (BOT p.49) the Trader writes:

"... a drink I've named Gun Club Punch because it is served in a glass that looks like a shotgun shell -GREEN GLASS with a gold base."

Now THAT would be worth 40.- bucks, not the ceramic one Trader Vic's started using in the 90s when they ran out of all their glasses. The glass is much finer, the ceramic is kind of plump and crude. I only ever saw ONE glass of that one, it was served to me with the excellent "Elephant Hunter" cocktail at the Rum Trader in Berlin.

The same goes for the Port and Starboard Light glasses on page 45 that you mentioned. Those cocktails used to come in these green and red glasses which are ment to resemble the lights of the same name on a ship's super structure. The ones in the Kahiki display on page 45 are the originals, I have a red one out of ribbed glass with the thin goldpainted cross ribs intact. Often that gold has been rubbed of by too many dishwasher runs.

T.V.'s also replaced those with crude ceramic ones, which does not make much sense since lamps are not meant to be opaque. Another lost tradition.

Post #70793 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Jan 18, 2004 8:12 PM