Post #765170 by KokoKele on Fri, Jun 17, 2016 9:56 PM

The pictures above are of an interesting discovery I made yesterday (June 17).

My brother and I were visiting a friend in Mt. Vernon, WA. While we were walking around I spotted a box full of wooden shapes. I examined them and told our friend that they looked like Witco pieces in progress. He said that would make sense, since the house was once owned by Harold Christenson (not sure if the spelling is right), who once worked as a shop foreman with Witco.

Included in the box were some horse heads that had been shaped with a band saw but hadn't been detailed or burned yet. There were three fish, two intact, that had been shaped and burned. I found a piece that was obviously one of the continents from the globe/map. There is also a large horse head with some detail added and a shape I don't recognize; it looks like a medallion or crest or something. In addition there were several small pieces that were u-shaped or hook shaped. You can see some of them in the picture.

This box of stuff was in the house attic, and our friend was cleaning it out. He had already taken a load of pieces to the dump, including an intact Witco frame. I told him to hang on to the remaining pieces and I would post pictures on Tiki Central to see if anyone thinks they're important.

If anyone has any info or thoughts, please post. I don't own these pieces and have no stake in whatever happens to them. If you want to get them out of our friend's hands and into yours, let me know and I'll see if I can connect you. Once again, there's nothing in it for me except the giddiness of having discovered these interesting works in progress.