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D

maybe witco? love it no matter what.
TR

Well the Tiki drought was beginning to take its toll... Then I found this

It's a Reyn Spooner repro of the "Okole Maluna" design, but a minty good one none the less.

Detail

Now I have strength to search another day.
Aloha,
:tiki:

[ Edited by: tiki royale 2009-04-18 09:44 ]
T

I don't ever seem to find anything for this thread. Yesterday I stopped at an estate sale and found this.

This looks like its never been used!

8 Half Shots

8 Big Shots


I really only collect mugs, not really glasses. Anyone have anything they want to trade for some or all of the Trader Vics stuff?
TM

here's some of the witco i found that i mentioned a few posts back....finally got some pictures....

here's the horse magazine rack

and the table lamp with shade....

and the dragon coffee table

more pics to come of the other items soon!!
PTD

More Witco, Tipsy! Nice finds everyone, especially the lamp, Tiki Room shirt and little Witco tiki!

Beautiful day for hunting, hundreds of people selling, but not much to glean tiki-wise! Today's finds...


Not as common as they once were, a tiger striped Trader Dick's Moai, Coco Joe's Lava Lono tiki, brown Daga surfer mug, unmarked on the back and one single Trader Vic's war club swizzle out of about 100 I fished through.

A few albums...


Second copy of Aloha from Norman Luboff, The Norman Luboff Choir. Much better condition.


Hawaiian Favorites, Ray Kinney and His Coral Islanders.



Lovely Hula Hands, Music of the Hula recorded by Waikiki Records Co. in Honolulu.


James Michener's Favorite Music of Hawaii.


Lehmann Book of The Tales of South Pacific. Hardcover book of the production of the movie.




Great artwork throughout!



Vacationland Magazine Summer 1961. Only mentioned because of some of the cool ads, like the ones for Bali Hai in San Diego and Sam's Seafood in Surfside.


Another Trader Vic's Menu from Oakland and San Francisco.


Different size from my other two!

Later!

PTD
S

I'm currently in PA dealing with family and here is what i found at one shop in one stop. Paid 40 for all.
L

On 2009-04-19 15:43, spiked wrote:
I'm currently in PA dealing with family and here is what i found at one shop in one stop. Paid 40 for all.

Looks like PA has some untouched hunting grounds. Good haul for a great price!
TD

last couple weeks,

![](https://tikicentral.com/uploads/1828/49ec83a7.jpg[/img

[img]https://tikicentral.com/uploads/1828/49ec83de.jpg)
TD

L

Usually on Mondays I hit a trifecta of thrift stores. Today they done me good!
Happy to see some signs of mug action today. Had a mini dry spell these past 2 weeks so glad to at least see 2 Harvey's Bucket Mugs each $0.50:

Not bad, not bad. Decide to hit store #2 even though I never find tiki there. Walking along the shelf and what do I see:

Oh YEAH! Stockton Islander baby for ... $1.50 ! Even has its OMC sticker.



Decide why not and hit my 3rd store. The same store where I had found those 4 jewel eyes not too long ago. See 2 more bucket mugs--most likely Harvey's. Flip em around...Stockton Islander AGAIN . Each mug was ....$1.07!

I was just drooling over Tikisgrl mug exchange from PTD so I am feeling the Islander love today!
TS

I found the pamphlet recently. It's for the Pottery Village that was located at two places in San Diego. They had a section called "Polynesian Hut and Sea Shells". Not sure if both locations had this or not. But it appears the tiki was at the Mission Valley location, according to the paphlet. The tiki looks about 20 ft tall!
BPB

This week's stuff:

A Maori doll with a hei tiki and moko. It has written in pen "Rotorua 1989" on the back of the box.

Tiki shot glass:

HIP Lava Nude Princess

I was glad to pick this one up because I was planning on bidding for one on ebay that was coming up later on the very same day. I ended up paying less for the one at the swap meet than the shipping would have been on the one on ebay. Usually, I would overpay for the one on ebay first, and still buy the cheaper one in the wild the next week to bring my average cost per unit down. Some times doing that helps me rationalize my overspending on ebay for stuff.
Speaking of overspending on ebay: Here's my Hapawood version of the Nude Princess next to the lava version I just got

Seems like one version is nuder than the other nude version.
Now I need a hapawood vesion with a skirt and lei, and a fully nude lava version. Then my collection, and life, will be complete.

Buzzy out!
TD


anyone know this place?
TM

here's two more pieces from that witco trove i discovered a few weeks back......the nightstand and the tiki/turtle bench....stool or whatever it is..

" In a perfect world...Elvis would still be alive ....and all the elvis impersonators would be dead!!"

[ Edited by: Tipsy McStagger 2009-04-22 22:15 ]
H

Found a nice lamp at lunch today.
B

KIL-LER lamp! Tipsy, the grain on those two pieces is weird, the footstool does nor seem to have any! Definitely Witco, though. Buzzy, good find, as you soitinly know, bare-breasted Coco Joe's girls are hard to find, this one is a close contender to that bare-bottom ashtray.
TD

is this WITCO?
TD

anyone in the know, feel free to tell me/us about what you think this piece might be
BPB

On 2009-04-23 11:31, TIKI DAVID wrote:
anyone in the know, feel free to tell me/us about what you think this piece might be

It's a Taiaha, which translates to "large wooden tiki stirrer stick."





Buzzy Out!
A

On 2009-04-23 11:31, TIKI DAVID wrote:
anyone in the know, feel free to tell me/us about what you think this piece might be

That's a Maori Carved Wooden Taiaha (Spear), a tourist piece by the look of it, good crisp detailed carving though, nice score.
TD

alright, thank you. very much.
L

I was so irked about the Witco/Oakland debacle of 2009 (this is what I am calling it !) that I just went to a thrift and here are my finds...nothing exciting but made me feel better and only $6 outta pocket
S

[ Edited by: surfalaia 2009-08-05 07:28 ]
BB

Leleliz has magic! Good magic... not scary magic.
S

[ Edited by: surfalaia 2009-08-05 07:29 ]
L

On 2009-04-23 15:23, surfalaia wrote:
You know leleliz, I just can't feel sorry for you. I look at "Tiki Finds" nearly every day and most days days you've got a table full of great stuff that you scored for less than a tenner! Here in crappy Phoenix, I have to spend 3 weekends driving up to 50 miles each way across town and walk through at least 12 different thrift or antique shops before I find a single mug (usually a Tiki Leilani or Trader Dick's Peanut) that the A-Hole seller wants $20 for!

Really, I have no animosity towards you :)......I'm just jealous.

[ Edited by: surfalaia 2009-04-23 15:23 ]

Oh I know you aren't throwing the daggers my direction, Surfalaia, but you are right. I guess I really shouldn't be complaining--which is definantly not my intention--because I know that others have harder luck in their neck of the woods. I guess its just that trying to find stuff out in the wild is so addicting that I have such high expectations these days. I just need to put it all in perspective and be thankful of when I do find something no matter what it may be :)
TS
SB

Finding anything in Atlanta is hard....ugh! I see these photo and drool!
God I miss Thousand Oaks......LOL!
D

two cocojoes keychains (estate sale) & mauana loa S&P
PTD

This was all for today...


Stockton Islander Headhunter mug with OMC sticker.

Now his friends have someone to play with...

Later! WOW, I just noticed, only 5 more posts and I reach one thousand!

PTD

[ Edited by: Psycho Tiki D 2009-04-24 14:28 ]
V

Thift Store Score today!!!!
I'm so stoked. I found the fricken coolest Ice Bucket on the planet!
It's old, I took it home and polished it. I bought it for 15.00!!!
I'm easily amused. I totally dig it. I did'nt even realize this makes my 5th ice bucket. Does anyone else collect ice buckets? I'll bet no one has one like this. Or do they?
V

I was so excited about my ice bucket, I forget to mention that I scored a mug today too! It's a new thrift store that just opened up in Ventura. I don't know anything about this thing. Is it old? It looks like it might be. It says made in china on the bottom, It was only a buck.
BPB

On 2009-04-24 23:04, VonTiki wrote:
I'll bet no one has one like this. Or do they?

Old thread about it here. But no pictures on that thread any more...
I've seen a couple on finds but can't remember who had them

In real life, I saw one for $20 at the swap meet a couple months back, but passed on it.

Buzzy Out!
W

Passed up a similar ice bucket for $25 at a flea market in Ohio a couple months back. They are neat, just a little age.
UT

On 2009-04-24 23:04, VonTiki wrote:
I'll bet no one has one like this. Or do they?

Well yes I do. Mine was made into a lamp when I found it for five bucks. It now lives in the Captain's Cabin area of my home lounge. Nice score!!
F
Fugu posted on Sat, Apr 25, 2009 10:44 AM

I've got one too, but mine has a dent in the top like the diver got into a harpoon fight. I agree that this is the coolest ice bucket ever; I was really excited when I finally found one.
H

I found this Orchds of Hawaii R-15 at a thrift this morning.
H

And a cool shirt today.
K

Found these barstools today at a yard sale for $5 each (score!). Now I need to find somewhere to put them! This is my first tiki bar purchase. I will need to build a tiki bar now. That is our dog Bob Marley Cinderella inspecting the new furniture.
BK

Any mug that says Made In China is a newer mug. The older ones were made in Japan.
L
Liana posted on Sun, Apr 26, 2009 1:33 AM

As I never see tiki mugs in Australia it is always VERY exciting to me when I come across this:

Rum Demon Glass float 3/100 mug for AU$20 (around US$15) which is pretty cheap when it comes to tiki mugs in Australia - as I said before now I have never seen any tiki mugs at any thrift stores or antique centres.. this was in a shop of an antique centre which looked like someone was selling off all of their tiki collection.. the rest of the stuff was overpriced..

I thought you guys might get a laugh out of the price of this mug:

There was another one there which was definately an orchids peanut mug and it was $65.. :o

[ Edited by: Liana 2009-04-26 01:52 ]
PTD

Kind of a slow weekend...found a few things. With the exception of the Westwood shots, everything else was a first time find....


Two small Westwood shots.


Unmarked coconut mug "made in Japan" label on the bottom.



Small Coco Joe's Tiki pen set with about 40 years of dirt. Same tiki as the larger set and looks better cleaned up.


Al Harrington The South Pacific Man Waikiki, Hawaii Daga handled mug. I do have one without the handle.


Vintage Hawaiian sarong from the 60's (folded in half).



Vintage Liberty House Aloha shirt. Nice pattern, I tried it on and it is a tad bit small for me! Crap!

Later,

PTD
L

Time to start fasting PTD to get that shirt to fit! hehe

Only 1 place I go to is open on Sundays so I picked up a few things.

CoCo Joe's (or is it HIP?) dish and a large volcano bowl (the one I found the other day was a small version) $3.00 for all :

Trader Vic's coconut, Iolani beer stein and ugly modern tiki nodder that was only 25 cents so why not - $1.50 for all:

Hey Tiki-Kate I picked these shirts up with you in mind, but noticed you already have them. Oh well...I will keep trying for ya! - $2.50 for both :

older:

newer:
STCB

Some recent garage sale finds:


:up: A couple of Pearl City Tavern monkey mugs for a quarter each and a Pee Wee's Playhouse Colorforms set (which has a tiki in it)

Some past links about the Pearl City Tavern:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=28588&forum=5
http://www.k12.hi.us/~lehua/classrooms1999_00/a24/pc_project/business/past/pc_tavern/pc_tavern.htm


:up: a closeup of the Colorforms Tiki


:up: Someone's beachcomber project from the 70s - a textured, clay-covered bottle with a postcard of The Warehouse incorporated. Would look good hanging with some cork floats and nets. Also some matchbooks for 25 cents each.
L

I have so much Pee Wee stuff including that colorforms set as well! Unusual scores-sweet!
BPB

This week's stuff:
A mug from Japan with a handle

A mug from the USA with a handle

This guy was lonely all by himself on a big table piled high with junk so I brought him home with me

I had an urge for the last couple weeks to dig through a big pile of matchbooks. I finally found a big cheap gallon bag full of them this weekend. I didn't open the bag, but could see a couple Hawaiian matchbooks form the outside. I bought the whole bag and found these Hawaiian ones(and three others):

Here are the rejects:

Mostly from Vegas, NoCal, Canada, and Texas

My favorite is this one:


I think he's cooking out of one of those Tiki Bbq hibatchi things on pg 184 of the BOT. It looks just like one to me.

Buzzy Out!
L

Not much today. Don't know what the last one is but it looks like a homedone glaze job.
S

Great day of thrifting but mostly non-tiki stuff, except this

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