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Post #762729 by Club Nouméa on Wed, Apr 20, 2016 7:06 PM

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The following find, made in Marton, New Zealand, offers testimony to some sad tiki mug devolution in the country that paved the way. 20 years or so after Harry Hargreaves of Crown Lynn designed the first known tiki mug in 1949 (called "Ruru and Weku"), New Zealand had sunk to THIS:

This Hawaiian NZ impostor looks like a craft DIY mug, but I am sure someone here will be able to tell me more...