Post #765789 by swizzle on Mon, Jul 4, 2016 12:14 AM

Wow Buzzy. My collection of maori pieces is getting pretty large but it looks like i have a ways to go before i catch up to you.

These are all my finds over the past month (roughly in order of when i found them).

Cool mini ships lantern.

A few wooden maori carvings, a pair of S&P shakers and a book on New Zealand which has some great photos in it. A carved wood and bamboo wind chime and a Coco Joe's pen holder. (That had some discolouration on it you can just see in the top photo. I actually had some brown shoe dye which matched the colour and covered it up beautifully).

A mug, small PNG carving with a boars tooth and shells and a Hawaii shot glass.

These were some pretty exciting finds. I went out to an area that i hadn't been to in a long time to check out the thrift stores and in the very first one i found the Treasure Craft piece for a bargain. I found the male dancer when i was in the U.S. last year so now i just need to find the girl. (It has actually been broken and repaired but you can barely notice it. I didn't see it myself until i got home). About three doors down in the front window of another store i found the bottle opener and then the moai from another store in a different suburb. I thought it was one of the plastic aquarium ornaments when i first saw it on the shelf but it seems to be made out of hebel (aerated concrete).

These two were actually bought online. The bookends had been on eBay and i was keeping my eye on them but they were a little more than what i really wanted to pay. Now ironically, the night before i found the bottle opener pictured above i had saved all the photos of the tiki pieces that that company, Sovereign Woodware, had made into a folder and thought to myself, "I have three different pieces of theirs -out of 21- but there is no way i will ever find everything they ever made". And then the next day i found the bottle opener. After that i came home and bought the bookends right away, so that makes 5/21. Still a long way to go but it's a start.

A ceramic barrel mug with handle (i actually found a larger version a few months ago that is exactly the same). A couple more wooden maori carvings. A carved wooden Ku cup and a bamboo bangle. I have been looking for some bamboo bangles forever and typically, when i finally find one it doesn't fit me.

A beat up pair of large carved spoon and fork for a bargain. Has three full tikis on it and a face - the most i've ever seen.

And after hitting twelve thrift stores today i only found ONE thing, but it at least it was something very cool.