Florida Indian Mug....Is it Tiki? - General Tiki

AP Aloha pinball Grand Member (1 year) Florida - New Mexico- Maryland Joined: Nov 10, 2012 Posts: 52	AP Aloha pinball Posted posted on Sun, Jan 10, 2016 6:56 PM Greetings everyone- I have no interest in reopening the debate on "Is this Tiki" (I will stipulate it isnt), but I scored one of these mugs, IN FLORIDA, two weeks ago. Picked it up at an antique mall north of St. Augustine. It took me much of the afternoon to find this particular thread (and I went off into a tangent on velvet paintings) but I dont see the final answer here. We still dont know where this thing came from. Im cofident it did come from Florida, but even crappy Florida tourist junk stores dont usually sell stuff that is so obviously NOT Floridiana by any stretch of the imagination. The other one making its way to the far cold midwest suggests another possibility. Perhaps it is wishful thinking on my part but I suspect this may have come from a Florida Tiki restaurant- the Mai Kai may be the last but there were others 50 years ago. Does anybody else have one of these or any insight into where it may have come from?

Greetings everyone- I have no interest in reopening the debate on "Is this Tiki" (I will stipulate it isnt), but I scored one of these mugs, IN FLORIDA, two weeks ago. Picked it up at an antique mall north of St. Augustine. It took me much of the afternoon to find this particular thread (and I went off into a tangent on velvet paintings) but I dont see the final answer here. We still dont know where this thing came from. Im cofident it did come from Florida, but even crappy Florida tourist junk stores dont usually sell stuff that is so obviously NOT Floridiana by any stretch of the imagination. The other one making its way to the far cold midwest suggests another possibility. Perhaps it is wishful thinking on my part but I suspect this may have come from a Florida Tiki restaurant- the Mai Kai may be the last but there were others 50 years ago. Does anybody else have one of these or any insight into where it may have come from?

Post #757076 by Aloha pinball on Sun, Jan 10, 2016 6:56 PM