Does anyone know anything about this mug???? - Collecting Tiki

T tikijackalope Tiki Socialite KS/MO Joined: Oct 23, 2003 Posts: 835	T tikijackalope Posted posted on Wed, Jun 16, 2004 2:43 AM More trivia on that mug design: In my brief, anal-retentive quest to figure out how to tell actual Orchids of Hawaii mugs from their descendants, I chatted with Myriah Bates of Myriah's Polynesian Bazaar last year and she told me that her supplier for the the "jewel-eyed tiki" was a Dallas-area company called Zoo Piks, and that they had just gone out of production. I was surprised that Dynasty Wholesale was not the supplier as they seem to use most of the old OoH molds. I suppose you know that the Orchids of Hawaii R-3 is pictured in Tikiquest, p.16, and that your (later?) version by Quan Quan is shown on page 60. I don't know which came first as everyone seemed to copy from each other back then; you'd have to ask Duke or one of the other tiki mug sages here. [ Edited by: tikijackalope on 2004-06-16 02:45 ]

More trivia on that mug design: In my brief, anal-retentive quest to figure out how to tell actual Orchids of Hawaii mugs from their descendants, I chatted with Myriah Bates of Myriah's Polynesian Bazaar last year and she told me that her supplier for the the "jewel-eyed tiki" was a Dallas-area company called Zoo Piks, and that they had just gone out of production. I was surprised that Dynasty Wholesale was not the supplier as they seem to use most of the old OoH molds.
I suppose you know that the Orchids of Hawaii R-3 is pictured in Tikiquest, p.16, and that your (later?) version by Quan Quan is shown on page 60. I don't know which came first as everyone seemed to copy from each other back then; you'd have to ask Duke or one of the other tiki mug sages here.

[ Edited by: tikijackalope on 2004-06-16 02:45 ]

Post #96628 by tikijackalope on Wed, Jun 16, 2004 2:43 AM