Welcome to the Tiki Central 2.0 Beta. Read the announcement
Tiki Central logo
Celebrating classic and modern Polynesian Pop

Tiki Central / Collecting Tiki

Tiki Finds

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 11,558 replies

mytiki.life – The best place to build and manage your tiki collections.
UT

I have a small version of that tiki. Nine inches tall, cool design.
BPB

This weeks stuff includes a crappy vintage tiki cup made in the Phillipines that says "Hawaii" in the mouth, a crappy wooden tiki dish set with sideways tiki prints, and a newish Shag hardcover book.

Buzzy
UT

After a long dry spell I hit it big today. Mauna Loa Detroit ashtray!! Shaped like a canoe. Found in the wild for five bucks.
T

Aloha all!! I have not posted in a little while so I figured I'd show a few finds that I have dug up lately. Mostly here in the wild but one or two off ebay.

On the left front are three Coco Joe Menehune's, behind them a nice green Mt.Fuji Moai Mug, a small "Discover Hawaii" United Airlines plaque/coaster, an old Moai Salt dispenser which I just couldnt leave by himself, and a nice PMP Peanut mug.

This photo shows a cool Okolehao Bottle on the left, one coaster from a set that I found which I thought was cool as it has the names of quite a few old Hotels that are no longer on the strip in Vegas including the Tropicana where Aku Aku was located, and a 1972 Jim Bean Decanter used to "Commemorate the 25th Anniversary of United Air Lines service to Hawaii" along with the 1972 Hawaiian Open Pro-Am golf tournament. I dont know how many years they made these decanters but there are atleast three designs with different years on them that I have seen along with the common and very cool tall Tiki one shown in the book, Tiki Quest by Duke Carter on p.154.

This photo shows an awesome mug from The Beachcomber Bars that were run by Butlins across England. In the center is a rare Frank Schirman piece called "Madonna". It is quite a bit different from the more commonly known Madonna piece. The more commonly seen one is a tall figure showing the Madonna standing with a baby as opposed to this one which is just from her waste up with her hands centered together and no baby. The top style above the Madonna is also different. I also find it unusal because most Schirman pieces have the name or model number that corresponds to that partcular figure. This one is clearly different from the other Madonna. On the right side of this photo is the "XXX Big Shot" glass that was used at Trader Vics as well as a couple other Tiki/Polynesian restaurants.

This last shot is of a really cool and unusual Tiki carving that I picked up. I haven't seen this style locally before and was pretty stoked to grab it. He stands about 18" tall.
Thats about it for now. Happy Hunting!! TabooDan

[ Edited by: TabooDan 2007-03-27 16:58 ]
V

Some very nice finds indeed, and thanks for the detailed description...helps idiots like me. :D
V

This goes back a ways, but is this a Carlo of Hollywood? It's not big enough to see the "Carlo" signature if there is one. It looks to be about the same aspect ratio as a few other Carlo's I've seen. If it is a Carlo, it's a pretty cool one and I'd like to get a better detailed photo of it. $8 is a great price too.

On 2006-10-28 07:16, uncle trav wrote:
Just picked this outrigger print up at a sale. Couldn't pass it up for 7.98$ Nearly five and a half feet long! Running out of wall space fast.
LD

Here is the result of one day's work

I think it was the largest haul we've made in a single day.
V

Wow...pretty impressive...I still need to hone my tiki shopping skills...I don't do well in the wild. That is a good haul!!!
UT

Here are a few close-ups of the outrigger print. It is by an artist named Dietrich. Lots going on with the earth tone colors splashed all over in the print. At first I thought the print was trashed or screwed up , but no, this is how it was made. Very mid-century modern. A cool piece with the mood lighting in the lounge.
R
rupe33 posted on Sun, Apr 1, 2007 4:29 PM

Here are some of my recent finds...
Great condition Webley Edwards (an entire book in the gatefold), and a 50 Guitars LP with gatefold sleeve die-cut cover:

This neat wall hanging that matches something we have in 3-D form; the notes on the back indicate it's from Bolivia. It's kinda Aztec, but since it matched our other piece, had to have it:

Burl Ives on Waikiki...(the cover alone was worth the dollar!)

An Orchids Head Hunter mug in yellow - have seen green & brown, but not yellow - and a neat bar lamp: "Have a drink with the Johnsons," which is great because that's the girlfriend's last name...

This tiki barware set, missing its corkscrew, bottle opener and tongs (Sven informed me that's what should be on the left side - while the corkscrew goes in the nose hole):

And also this superswell still in the shrink wrap (although it has seen better days) deluxe 3LP of Webley Edwards' Hawaii Calls with burlap album cover!

Good hunting down here in the DC metro area lately!

Cheers,
Rupe
BPB

This week's stuff

In addition to two sheraton molokai mule mugs, I got a super huge ashtray


This was for people who smoked a lot and probably bought their smokes by the carton

Treasure craft flower vase or something

Castaways Las Vegas ashtray

That was it...

Keep looking people
Buzzy Out!
S

4 of these for 5 bux ea.

To drown sorrow, where should one jump first and best? "Certainly not water. Water rusts you." -Frank Sinatra

[ Edited by: Sneakytiki 2007-04-06 23:19 ]
K


Six resin Tikis. Three ceramic Tiki votive candle holders. A set of ceramic salt and pepper shakers. Because you can never have too many Tikis, or too much rum, or too many cocktail umbrellas, or....
P

I almost hate to admit it, but those resin tikis are really really awesome looking. Great haul!
BPB

Stuff I found this weekend:
A flat wood tiki, a New Zealand map tray, and a pair of ceramic s+p shakers

the NZ map rolling tray has a little moko dude on it

Also, another made in phillipines Hawaiian tiki and an unmarked lava King K

This is a nice piece

I usually pass on newish tiki stuff I find in the wild, but I bought the s+p shakers because they were the same design as two older mugs I found a while back. I posted the mugs on finds and found out they were ones you go and get at a ceramics shop and decorate yourself. Here are the new made in China salt and pepper shakers that I just got and the original mugs:

Long lost cousins reunited? The only real difference is that they used the same hands for both of them on the shakers, but the one on the right has them upside down. Shaka Brah!

Buzzy Out!
I

A recent find ..... a set of four Hawaiian Inn paddle licker mugs.

3 of them are shown here.

I almost passed up on the fourth one, as it was a duplicate color, and the glaze was imperfect and running in spots. I looked at it, placed it back on the shelf, and walked away.

But I came back, looked at it again - and realized that the imperfect glaze made it look as if there was blood dripping from the knife and hand of the tiki figure. It is actually kind of creepy .... so of course, I had to buy that one too.

Vern
T

I love Disneyland and the Enchanted Tiki Room. This print I can hang on my walls and enjoy looking at it everyday with out the wife saying its a dust collector!

[ Edited by: TikiArtHunter 2007-04-08 12:51 ]

[ Edited by: TikiArtHunter 2007-04-08 16:31 ]
T

I recently picked up the wakahuia pictured below at an aauction in the East(US). A paper with the box said the it was made of Totara and the carver was named George Bryenton (I think). Does anybody out there know anything about the carver, or have an estimate of the approximate age of the carving? Thanks, Timid

Top View -

Bottom View -
M

Timid,

That is one fine Maori peice you have there, and I have never seen a box quite like that one. There are some folks here that should be able to give you some pretty detailed answers on the origin, approx date, and about the artist. Nice treasure!

Mahalo

McTiki
T

On 2007-04-07 10:11, khan_tiki_mon wrote:

Six resin Tikis. Three ceramic Tiki votive candle holders. A set of ceramic salt and pepper shakers. Because you can never have too many Tikis, or too much rum, or too many cocktail umbrellas, or....

I was going to post about finding those resin Tiki's, and the S&P shakers, at the local Eckerd drug store here in Pittsburgh (pretty much the last place I expected to find Tiki in the wild), but you beat me to it. The one's with the protruding lower jaw rang up as birdfeeders on my receipt -- I'm using one as a soapdish myself and another as a paperclip holder at work.
TGT

Those are all available at Brooks Drug Stores in the North East. (US)
A

Isn't that red resin tiki on the far left a ripoff of a Tikifarm mug?
T

Not just the red one, but a couple of the ones next to it.
JD

anyone ever seen this bizarre mug before?

sorry the shot is over-exposed, i tried to fix it in photoshop.

i can't figure what the design is supposed to be.
UT

Cool find. Kinda looks like an earless chocolate easter bunny on crack!
T

Nice mug . . . to me it looks like an attempt to join the "tiki" form with the Pacific Northwest (US) Indian "beaver" totem. Where did you find him?
P

it looks like a "vizzerdrix"

except toned down ALOT....
PR

On 2007-04-11 17:36, timidtiki wrote:
I recently picked up the wakahuia pictured below at an aauction in the East(US). A paper with the box said the it was made of Totara and the carver was named George Bryenton (I think). Does anybody out there know anything about the carver, or have an estimate of the approximate age of the carving? Thanks, Timid

Top View -

Bottom View -

Family History

[ Edited by: filslash 2008-09-20 15:20 ]
T

Thanks filslash - I did find the Suffolk line in NZ but was not able to pin down the dates as you have. I haven't been able to attach the name to a wood carver in New Zealand. I did find a George B. who was a wood carver in the US about 1930 but I don't know where he came from and I cannot find any examples of his work. Timid
K

On 2007-04-12 12:51, Johnny Dollar wrote:
anyone ever seen this bizarre mug before?

sorry the shot is over-exposed, i tried to fix it in photoshop.

i can't figure what the design is supposed to be.

Yep. Very rare and quite old. It is from the long gone Tiki Trapper up north. That one looks odd though. Like it was spray painted or something. Normally they were brown.

And it is a tiki beaver.

Here's a matchbook from there:

Is it yours? Where did you find it? I have only seen one other one before.

Ahu
SDT

On 2007-04-12 17:30, KuKuAhu wrote:

It is from the long gone Tiki Trapper up north.

Could you be more specific about "up north"? Do you mean like North Dakota up north? Or the "real" up north like Canada or Alaska?
K

Hamilton, Ontario (according to the matchbook).

Ahu
SDT

Thanks for the info, KuKuAhu. Never heard of it (Tiki Trapper i mean - not Hamilton Ont.). Technically speaking, it would be "down south" if you live in North Dakota.
S
squid posted on Thu, Apr 12, 2007 9:23 PM

On 2007-04-12 10:23, atomictonytiki wrote:
Isn't that red resin tiki on the far left a ripoff of a Tikifarm mug?


3 of those resins are early mugs I sculpted for Tiki Farm, albeit with some minor modifications. My copyright on those designs still remains in effect. (Even after I'm dead! I strongly recommend living trusts.) Tiki Farm was the exclusive licensee, which makes these reproductions illegal. I'll post some pix of the originals as soon as I hunt them down (The photos that is) :)
S
squid posted on Thu, Apr 12, 2007 9:27 PM

Oh, looky what I found!
T

On 2007-04-12 12:51, Johnny Dollar wrote:
anyone ever seen this bizarre mug before?

sorry the shot is over-exposed, i tried to fix it in photoshop.

i can't figure what the design is supposed to be.

J$, did you get that at Oh Said Rose? I saw it, but wasn't quite sure what to make of it. I just thought it was part of their kitschy easter display. Damn, I'm kicking myself now. Good score. When are me and the Mrs. coming over to see this?
JD

On 2007-04-12 22:32, Turbogod wrote:

J$, did you get that at Oh Said Rose? I saw it, but wasn't quite sure what to make of it. I just thought it was part of their kitschy easter display. Damn, I'm kicking myself now. Good score. When are me and the Mrs. coming over to see this?

yeah that's where i got it, kelly actually made my buy it ~ i thought it was spencers/target tiki but when i looked on the bottom under the paint that someone had painted there was a sticker. i'll heve to see if i can scrape it off to expose the sticker.

i'll bring it to powerofthetiki's place on may 5th or vern's on the 21st if that pans out.
B

On 2007-04-12 12:51, Johnny Dollar wrote:
anyone ever seen this bizarre mug before?

Damn Johnny $! How come we never find anything like that? That's truly a unique design. I'm impressed.
-Duke
S

Jdollar, that prolly is supposed to be a bunny tiki? It looks to me like a beaver on a NW totem pole crossed with a hawaiian tiki though. I think that's where they got the idea from.
Notice the eyebrow ridge is the same too.

.

tiki beaver, heh heh.

S T

To drown sorrow, where should one jump first and best? "Certainly not water. Water rusts you." -Frank Sinatra

[ Edited by: Sneakytiki 2007-04-13 15:38 ]
SDT

It's been about 4 months since I've posted any finds. It seemed like a really long dry stretch at the time but when I gather it all together it doesn't seem so bad.

L to R: Carved NZ piece with Tiki and kiwi bird, NZ wall piece, (back) wooden Tiki lamp my sister brought me from Florida, anatomically correct Tangaroa carving, Tiki wearing pukka shell necklace marked Tahiti 1977, crying Tiki candle.

Closeup of Tangaroa.

All 4 mugs in the back row are Chinese-made copies of Orchids mugs. Coconut is by Frankoma.
CM

When it comes to finding tiki mugs in the wild, I really cannot complain and have been fortunate overall in my opinion...

However, looking over Sweet Daddy Tiki's (and others) latest finds, I realize that I hardly ever, and I mean ever, find carved tikis (aside from the Ku-headed mug, which I think are related to rabbits because they are everywhere) or lava scupltures, like Coco Joes and the like.

Great finds one and all. I think this is my favorite thread, cause I get to live vicariously through you guys here. Y'all are the best and I am proud to be one of ya.

Also, I keep threatening to post my tiki finds since my last posting in the thread (March 06), but it will be a big task and I don't want to come across as pretentious. :wink:

-CMC
JT

Cool Manchu, you live in Capitola, and we haven't met you yet? What's up with that? You coming to F.I. for the 1 yr. Ann. Shindig? Dig your handle.
P

I like that last photo of finds. Really nice pieces in there! Good stuff, man, good stuff.
T

origional bali hai ashtray. a coupple chiped corners, but other than that its in perfect condition
M

On 2007-04-13 20:55, Jungle Trader wrote:
Cool Manchu, you live in Capitola, and we haven't met you yet? What's up with that?

My folks have a "beach house" in Capitola, up on Depot Hill. I make it out there a couple times a year. Met up with Chongolio last visit. Shootz we could get a real group together next time.
PTD

TCer's,

For your viewing pleasure, I present this week's tiki finds...

Old ceramic tiki ashtray.

Brown unmarked jewel-eyed handled tiki mug.

Two Daga Fisherman's Wharf Kewalo Basin-Honolulu Hawaii Bamboo mugs.

Shorter brown Treasure Craft handled tiki mug.

Bug-eyed Moai, Made in USA.

Two Trader Vic's Green Big Shot and Two Trader Vic's Green Sure Shot Glasses.


Set of six Orchid of Hawaii R-12 Short brown handled tiki mugs with original box.



Witco table or stool?

See you soon,

Psycho Tiki D (I know I am and there will be more)!
F

On 2007-04-12 17:30, KuKuAhu wrote:
Yep. Very rare and quite old. It is from the long gone Tiki Trapper up north. That one looks odd though. Like it was spray painted or something. Normally they were brown.

And it is a tiki beaver.

Here's a matchbook from there:

Is it yours? Where did you find it? I have only seen one other one before.

Ahu

Oh, God! And the Beaver's PINK! :lol: That's gotta be the topper to the old "Rubber Nipple" Matchbooks!

I can just imagine the the bar having stuffed Beavers "Carving" Tikis with their teeth, Bamboo "Beaver Dams" to separate Booths, and Northwoods inspired drink names! "I'll have a 'Beaver Slap' and my friends want to split the 'Moose Slobber Bowl'..."
S

On 2007-04-12 12:51, Johnny Dollar wrote:
anyone ever seen this bizarre mug before?

sorry the shot is over-exposed, i tried to fix it in photoshop.

i can't figure what the design is supposed to be.

I saw one of those in a shop in Georgia last year and passed it by. Just too weird for my taste. I thought it was an Alaskan thingy anyway...

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 11558 replies