Thrifting for Tiki in the urban jungle - Collecting Tiki

FW Fourth Wave Tiki Centralite Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, UK Joined: Sep 30, 2023 Posts: 17	FW Fourth Wave Posted posted on Mon, Oct 2, 2023 11:11 AM Here in the UK I haven't found a Tiki item in a Yard sale for about 42 years. And I haven't found anything other than 50s glass wear in Charity/thrift stores. I have been more successful on line. I'm sure you are all very capable at internet trawling. But as there are so many trawling the same thing, I'm sure we have been trying to out bid each other at some point. I use Picclick. This searches ebay and Amazonas a whole. But I've just realised picclick.uk looks at a lot of US as well as the UK. If I use German (.de) this does Germany and US and every other country has their own areas of interest. Depending on how in to Tiki or Polynesia your searches will vary with how fruitful the search will be. Germany before and after the first World War was very interested in the Ethnological studies of Pacific.France has an interest because of French Polynesia. The US is the home of Tiki Pop Culture as well you know. However for every learned or enlightened soul there are a myriad or plethora of naive folk out there. This wave of Tiki is full of tales of amazing finds for a crazy low price. With Picclick or FB Market Place my top tip would be to look for African Carving as well as your usual search ie Tiki. As we are into Tiki would our distant relatives get it? Most of my scores have been from people who have held on to stuff because it was their great aunts or so and have no interest other than getting rid of said item or group of items. Rather than taking it to land fill they try to flog them. Thinking they are tribal or africal they sit there being ignored for ages until the price drops. I'm sure you know this one but if you don't you are welcome. Big finds using this method have been 2 early framed Shag prints. A 1890s Tekoteko. 3 really nice Tangaroas, 2 kavakavas, most of my PNG masks. A vanuatu slit drum and some of my larger tikis. Hopefully for those who are finding the lack of local finds disheartening will find thus helpful. It's just the international shipping and import prices can be an unpleasant surprise.

Here in the UK I haven't found a Tiki item in a Yard sale for about 42 years. And I haven't found anything other than 50s glass wear in Charity/thrift stores. I have been more successful on line. I'm sure you are all very capable at internet trawling. But as there are so many trawling the same thing, I'm sure we have been trying to out bid each other at some point. I use Picclick. This searches ebay and Amazonas a whole. But I've just realised picclick.uk looks at a lot of US as well as the UK. If I use German (.de) this does Germany and US and every other country has their own areas of interest. Depending on how in to Tiki or Polynesia your searches will vary with how fruitful the search will be. Germany before and after the first World War was very interested in the Ethnological studies of Pacific.France has an interest because of French Polynesia. The US is the home of Tiki Pop Culture as well you know. However for every learned or enlightened soul there are a myriad or plethora of naive folk out there. This wave of Tiki is full of tales of amazing finds for a crazy low price. With Picclick or FB Market Place my top tip would be to look for African Carving as well as your usual search ie Tiki. As we are into Tiki would our distant relatives get it? Most of my scores have been from people who have held on to stuff because it was their great aunts or so and have no interest other than getting rid of said item or group of items. Rather than taking it to land fill they try to flog them. Thinking they are tribal or africal they sit there being ignored for ages until the price drops. I'm sure you know this one but if you don't you are welcome. Big finds using this method have been 2 early framed Shag prints. A 1890s Tekoteko. 3 really nice Tangaroas, 2 kavakavas, most of my PNG masks. A vanuatu slit drum and some of my larger tikis. 1688939654635 1686472770202 1679706395271 1671191151599 1663277990323 Hopefully for those who are finding the lack of local finds disheartening will find thus helpful. It's just the international shipping and import prices can be an unpleasant surprise.

Post #810876 by Fourth Wave on Mon, Oct 2, 2023 11:11 AM