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Slacks Ferret
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Wed, Oct 26, 2005 7:00 PM
Nice Finds everyone. I'm especially jealous of the SB Decanter and the Voodoo Grog Glass. The Velvet painting is cool too. Here's what I've found since my last reply 20 days ago. It's actually been a pretty good month... The Kon Tiki Mug and the lone salt (pepper?) shaker were found together at a thrift store I check seldomly, but this was the first time I'm found anything Tiki.
Oh, and what do you think of the sheet I'm using in the background? It's actually a Duvet cover and mattress sheet set I found at Value Village. I thought it looked like Tapa, but I'm no expert... |
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Sweet Daddy Tiki
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Wed, Oct 26, 2005 11:15 PM
Pretty decent haul, Slacks. I covet the Kon Tiki mug. You didn't find 2 did you? Tiki A. Moaikingbird is still very much with us -- he sent me pictures of his weekend finds which included Al Harrington and Leilani mugs (like yours) and a set of 5 treasurecraft menehunes with booklet. |
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Thu, Oct 27, 2005 10:22 AM
Wow Slacks, congrats on the great finds! You must have been pretty excited!! |
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Thu, Oct 27, 2005 10:37 AM
Gosh, nice finds, maybe since summer is over people are unloading their "luau" gear. Today I found this Trader Vics ashtray just when I about gave up on Goodwlll |
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SilverLine
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Thu, Oct 27, 2005 8:42 PM
I found this a while back . . almost didn't buy it because it's cracked, but I'd never seen one before. Obviously it's not tiki, but it was cheap so what the heck. Anybody ever seen one of these, maybe for different restaurants? Thanks!
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Thu, Oct 27, 2005 10:14 PM
After a pretty long dry spell, I tracked down a nice collection on Craigslist. I picked all of these up for $40.00: 2 Trader Vics skull mugs (one is stamped TV, the other isn't). I also found the following during the dry spell: 1 Hinano Tahitian Beer Ashtray |
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Fri, Oct 28, 2005 6:33 AM
Got it off Ebay. I've had the dinner menu for a couple of years, so I was glad to get the set.
The Swank Pad Broadcast - If it's Swank... [ Edited by: Swanky 2005-10-28 06:34 ] |
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Fri, Oct 28, 2005 6:56 AM
Silverline, I've heard those called Benihana Mugs 'cause the Benihana Steakhouse chain used many like them. I used to have several that I picked up for a quarter or fifty cents, but my wife gave them to my Mother-in-Law since she liked them. |
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Fri, Oct 28, 2005 7:18 AM
Hey Slacks, Now I know why I didnt find anything at the Calgary Sally ann when I was there on Wednesday - you got it all! I was at the one by the Best Western (where I was staying) on McCleod Trail. |
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Fri, Oct 28, 2005 12:06 PM
Somebody please fill me in on the whole Tiki Leilani thing. I bought a box of one dozen Tiki Leilani mugs at a "flea market" in South Dakota. They look like new condition...I got them cheap cheap cheap to let my teens use for summer parties, but maybe they are worth more than I thought? The original label is still on the box, it reads "sales promotion material...Sikeston Ceramics, Inc. Mayfield, Kentucky..." It was originally shipped to a Liquor store in Rapid City. Any info would thrill me! Thanks, Shannlei |
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Fri, Oct 28, 2005 12:16 PM
If I were on the Antiques Roadshow, I would advise you to insure these precious items for between 1 and 2 dollars each. In other words... don't bother selling, it's not worth your time! However, you bought them for a good reason - to have fun with them! Who knows, one day they may be worth a lot... in 2089! |
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Fri, Oct 28, 2005 12:23 PM
shannlei- Perfect find and perfect purpose! They're about the most common (so not worth big bucks) and yet greatest little mugs! They were, as you saw, used as promotional giveaways for many years, thus their ubiquitousness. BUT - they're great and they're vintage! I buy all I can if they're cheap and use them with my guests. That way, they are drinking out of a real, vintage mug, but if they drop it, I won't cry! Congrats on a nice little find :) F |
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Slacks Ferret
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Fri, Oct 28, 2005 5:04 PM
Tikifish, Why you not calling when you come to town? It makes me and the Baby Jesus cry. |
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shannlei
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Fri, Oct 28, 2005 5:07 PM
Thanks for your valuable tiki wisdom...even if my mugs are not so valuable. My kids are now happily sipping from tiki leilanis. Shannlei |
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Sat, Oct 29, 2005 2:36 PM
my recent finds. a wood carved ku-ish tiki (3.99) and a mean looking "genuine haupa wood" (2.99 missing spears) i thought the tiki looked familiar, so i took side by side pix of the infamous Tiki Trader (which cost a bunch, and is 10.5" high, and has a nicer glaze) next to my 5.00 find (which has better mana) |
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Sat, Oct 29, 2005 5:43 PM
In 1982 my parents took me to Hawaii to see Don Ho and he brought me up on stage. While he was singing "Tiny Bubbles" he gave me a mini Don Ho doll made of rubber. It's head screws off and you can blow bubbles out of it. I remembered a few years ago that I had this and after endless hours of digging thru boxes in my parents garage I found it!!!!! |
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Suffering Bastard of Stumptown
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Sat, Oct 29, 2005 6:18 PM
Recent finds around Portland Maine. --SBiM |
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Sun, Oct 30, 2005 1:19 AM
Ahh... Paradise Cove! Someday I'll post pictures. Ouch. |
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Sun, Oct 30, 2005 5:44 AM
Well I went to an estate sale yesterday to buy a 77 Buick. I went and looked at it and figured if it was cheap I would buy it. Anyway I didn't get the car but for some reason I figured this place would be good. Probably because it was a 60s rancher with a old green buick. My kind of people. Anyway the first thing I spot was this box of swizzel sticks. Has to be 200 of them. they are from all over the world. I found out from the guys son that he traveled the world in the 60s through 1972. There are some great sticks from the Castaways in vegas, and castaways wreck bar abd tahitian bar,trader vics & trader franks, Outrigger hotels, Cool vegas like Harras and the dunes. Playboy club etc. Really cool airline ones too. |
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Sun, Oct 30, 2005 2:51 PM
I'm on a 2-week business trip to Boulder, CO and this weekend I went mug-hunting in Colorado Springs. I scored 5 mugs, which is more than I've ever found in a single place, and passed up a whole bunch of other tiki-related items (masks, s&p shakers, etc.) that I simply didn't have room to take back home with me. I don't have a good digital camera on hand, but I snapped a few low-quality pics and put them online: Trader Vic's Coffee Grog mug But the most unusual (and cool) mug I found was this Shriner head which came from a local lodge and was dated 1972. I'd never seen anything like this before, so it was pretty exciting! |
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Sun, Oct 30, 2005 3:56 PM
Slacks, I was with client. No time for shenanigans - meetings all day, then researching competing restaurants until midnight! One day I will come to Calgary and have a free night... one day! |
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Sun, Oct 30, 2005 4:13 PM
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Sun, Oct 30, 2005 8:36 PM
Friends talked me into going with them to a small little town that used to be great for 50's vintage stuff. |
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SilverLine
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Mon, Oct 31, 2005 9:57 AM
Sorry folks, but once again I've found stuff and have no idea what the hell it is. We were hunting in small towns in south Missouri over the weekend and I found these two for $.50 each. Both are thin and lightweight with good glazes; don't seem home-made to me, but have NO markings or labels anywhere. The multi-colored glazed one is fairly large and would probably hold around 18oz. It has two different faces on either side. The little black one might hold 8oz. The black one especially strikes me being "something," but who knows. Wonder why I always find the "WTF" mugs?
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Mon, Oct 31, 2005 10:32 AM
Great little finds silverline! I love the bottom one, it has skull feel to it. It's one of my mug grails actually. The top one I have in the shorter, home made version.
Enjoy them! |
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Mon, Oct 31, 2005 2:27 PM
Finds from last weekend: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY. And they're all welcome here! |
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Mon, Oct 31, 2005 10:50 PM
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Tikiwahine
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Tue, Nov 1, 2005 5:12 PM
Thanks for posting that Sabu! I assumed it was home made because it has 'KU' written on the bottom, I'm enthused to find that they may have held hot buttered rums! |
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Tue, Nov 1, 2005 5:53 PM
Thanks Sabu: I am pretty new at the mug thing. Just a lucky score on my part. Even in pennsylvania we get lucky sometimes. Thanks again for posting the menu. Scott |
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Wed, Nov 2, 2005 3:55 AM
In New England, this is called 'hitting the motherlode'. Thanks to Puritans and the Tiki Taliban, you can look a long time and not find nothin'. 4 Tumblers are like new and have palm trees, hula gals and guy playin' uke--$4. T.V. S&P set in rotten mud color--$4. Solitary S. Crane Salt shaker was $1. R-71 was $1.50 but there's a crack in back (visible) so it's perfect for diplay. Big tiki face is pine, eyes are plastic or glass beads. It's about 6 inches deep so it can stand up. No idea of origin--$5. |
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Wed, Nov 2, 2005 11:11 AM
October Tiki finds -- Now 100% owl free! Daga mug from Pat's at Punaluu (Oahu), smaller version of same from Maui Lu Luau, the Harvey's Sneaky Tiki and Orchids R-72 Moai are Random Acts of Tiki, the little pick holder in front is a miniature, handle-less version of a Quon Quon(?) mug, Trader Vic's s&p. pineapple s&p, pineapple pick holder, i know we see a lot of mugs mislabeled as vases, but I think the large pineapple at the back actually is a vase and not a mug, the PMP coconut up front is from a mug swap with Sabu, the Daga coconut at back is from the New Otani. Found these two Coco Joe's wall plaques yesterday at Goodwill. They have $6.95 Woolworth pricetags on the back (I paid more than that). |
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Wed, Nov 2, 2005 6:57 PM
here is a New Guinea mask I found. Does anyone know how to tell the age of these? It feels like it has real hair for the beard. Also it has a real bone through the nose and a sand or clay mixture was used to glue the shells on. It looks old |
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Sat, Nov 5, 2005 10:38 PM
Aloha TC'ers! Here are my latest finds. These were almost all found in the wild. I am going hunting tomorrow, so hopefully I will have more to post then. :) From left to right: Matson Menu Lines - they were framed when I bought them, so I am not sure what cruises they are from or if they are blank
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Sun, Nov 6, 2005 7:16 AM
oddly enough, i just sold a don the beachcombers rumbarrel about a week ago on ebay...yesterday i found another one at the same store I found the first, but this one is in even better condition...... |
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Sun, Nov 6, 2005 10:18 AM
Yesterday we took a trip to the Kowloon to meet up with other New Englanders (see thread in the events forum) and we were all given Kowloon S&P shakers and pinapple sugar bowls. I also stopped at a Goodwill in Portsmouth on the way down and found these other items. The island girl mug is kind of interesting, and if anyone knows anything about it, I would love to know where it might have come from. --SBiM |
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Sun, Nov 6, 2005 3:20 PM
Not much luck lately. Not winning on ebay, not finding much locally. I just found out a couple weeks ago that employees of my favorite antique mall are putting nice tiki pieces aside for some guy. :x A couple of weeks ago I went to Goodwill on Hwy 17-92 and found this cannibal tiki: I grabbed it up real quick but didn't find anything else. At the cash register I ask "Do you get many wood carvings like this?" The cashier responded that they typically don't but today they put out several. I replied, "You mean those wooden elephants?" "No, little carved guys like this one. I put five or six out myself just a little while ago." :( Ack! That made me feel sick. I probably just missed them! I figure, as cannibal tikis usually come in threes, that there were probably the other two cannibals and maybe a couple other pieces as well. I'm guessing this guy was left behind because of the crack along side the head of the lower tiki. He was only $2, so I can't believe someone left him behind and broke up the set. I found this piece from PNG yesterday: Also found these two postcards: The Royal Hawaiian was in Daytona. Anyone see any shifty ebayers selling two cannibal tikis let me know so I can reunite the family. :D I was googling up some stuff on the Asaro mudmen of PNG and found this pic which cracked me up. Thought I'd share. |
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Thu, Nov 17, 2005 4:01 PM
I finally got around to photographing my only cool (old) tiki find of recent months. |
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Thu, Nov 17, 2005 10:53 PM
Nice tikijackalope, |
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Tikiwahine
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Fri, Nov 18, 2005 10:18 PM
This past wednesday I traded some items with a local collector. Here are some of the things I was very happy to add to my collection. The Hawaiian Village was a tiki bar in Vancouver, BC, Canada. |
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Kono
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Sat, Nov 19, 2005 5:32 PM
Went to the flea market today. Warehouse Restaurant barrel mug. Trader Vics S&Ps. HIP Hula girl. My friend got this very cool Polynesian guy lamp with metal shade. Tiki with boobs. One of those things the Tahitian dancers shake rattle and roll. A black OMC mug. |
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Sun, Nov 20, 2005 10:39 AM
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Sweet Daddy Tiki
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Sun, Nov 20, 2005 9:27 PM
The last 3 weeks: Kona Coffee Mill mug (plastic). The other two I found two days apart at different thrift stores. Small (8") Treasure Craft pair. A couple of tourist pieces from the south seas. This one is from the Solomon Isles and has inlaid mother of pearl. This one is marked "vanu eta". It's stone or clay and very heavy. |
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Kono
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Mon, Nov 21, 2005 2:11 AM
The piece from the Solomon Islands is a canoe prow. These were attached to the front of war canoes to ward off evil sea spirits. Nice finds! |
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SilverLine
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Mon, Nov 21, 2005 7:05 AM
Oh MAN have I been lucky! After a long dry spell and equally unproductive week deer hunting, we decided to try some mug hunting last weekend. Found an ad in the paper for a garage sale featuring "head vases" and had to check it out. Bought this concave-bottom Mr. Bali Hai for $5.00! Yeah, he's damaged, but I think the broken nose-bone adds character. Same sale netted these two as well. I think I like photographing this stuff almost as much as I like finding it! Then, later that same day, my wife spotted this Diamond Head mug at an antique mall; marked "Art Deco vase." I grabbed it and quickly paid the $9.95 for it! What a weekend!! |
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Mon, Nov 21, 2005 7:46 AM
I love that Lamp Kono! If I remember right you have a couple of real nice lamps? I have quite a lamp collection from the 50's and 60's, but so far none that are Hawaiian or tiki. ( I've made a couple myself, but don't count those) I'm putting on a full court press this winter to come up with a nice tropical type lamp. Sweet Daddy Tiki, I have a figurehead very close in appearance to yours. They are called TOTO IUS (Nguzu Nguzu) and were place just above to the waterline on the war canoes. Here is a pretty good site where you can read more http://www.tribalarts.com/feature/solomon/ You see things and say, Why? But I dream things that never were, and say, Why not! [ Edited by: exotica59 2005-11-21 07:47 ] |
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Mon, Nov 21, 2005 8:03 AM
Great photos silverline! I just got one of those 'art deco vases' on eBay. hee hee! |
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Cool Manchu
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Thu, Nov 24, 2005 11:35 AM
Aloha 'Ohana! Here are my latest finds Trader Vic's Coffee Grog |
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Sat, Nov 26, 2005 6:35 PM
So while I was evacuated to alternate location I thought I would scrounge around for some finds and came up with the following: Marquesan with markings on the bottom "Made in Society Islands France". Big hole on top no idea what is for. Nice Ku like carving (here's a side view) Salt pepper shakers 2 sets (tiki man and something else) Big shot glasses The salt and pepper shakers that are not the regular men that we see are sometimes labeled as tiki. I don't think they are but they go great with my Westwood toothpick holder. I ran out of places to look for items. |
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