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T

Found some great pieces over the weekend...
Super rare find for Jersey or the U.S. for that matter, a Singapore Sling mug from the Mauna Loa in Mexico that I found at "Cobweb Corner" outside of A.C....

Mai Kai Decanter out at Columbus...

Coco Joes Tiki with the flower still on it, a nice touch...

and this great carving....

A nice early start to the flea market season here in Jersey...happy hunting! :)
Z
Zeta posted on Wed, Mar 31, 2010 3:42 PM

Whoa!!!
The Singapore Sling mug!!! You are one lucky guy!!! I have only seen it once in my life, in Mexico City, and I bought it of course, so, congratulations! I am happy you found it! a real Latin tiki collector!
T

Thanks Zeta, it's a unique mug for sure!
BPB

This week's stuff:

Hawaiian souvineer Tonga style wood tiki

It's real skinny:

A PNG ancestral tablet.It'ss about 25" tall

Unmarked little black tiki

Framed Covarrubias print of Pacific art styles

Hawaii pamphlets

One has the Trader Vic's ad:

Hawaii surfer plate:

Coconut mugs:

Tiki shots

Tiki mugs:








Buzzy Out!
BB

Buzzy- All that in one week? Wow!
BPB

On 2010-04-01 02:46, Bongo Bungalow wrote:
Buzzy- All that in one week? Wow!

I got most of those mugs when I was vending next to this guy while he had his 1/2 price tiki Mug sale at the Hula Girls Show/Tonga Hut parking lot sale on Sunday:

I just couldn't resist a good bargain!
And , I tripled my mug collection in one smooth transaction! I think I can join OOga Mooga now...
Buzzy Out!
L

[ Edited by: leleliz 2010-04-05 19:39 ]
T

Matt took me to SF this weekend for my birthday and we found a few things. Picked up the TV 75th Anniversary mug in Emeryville, CA. (and had a scorpion) Went antiquing and found a few others.







We stayed overnight in the city, walked to the Fairmont Hotel and had dinner at the Tonga Room. It's so beautiful. It looks like they cleaned it up nicely, unfortunately, the food was just so so (too sweet and bland) and I had a pineapple daiquiri which was ok. I ordered a mai tai with dinner and it was so bad I had to send it back!! Tasted like bad medicine... very disappointing.

Then we took some hair raising cab rides (I'm serious, they go at least 70 MPH flying down the hills of San Francisco - Think of the movie "Bullet" with Steve McQueen).

Made it safely to Smuggler's Cove, really fun place. I had a Test Pilot and Matt had the Smuggler Cove Rum Barrel and a painkiller. The bartender, Melissa, was a bar tending marvel! We ended the night at Bourbon & Branch, a 1920's style speakeasy, that requires a password to gain entrance, and some very talented bartenders.

(Our last cab ride to the hotel was unbelievable. Somehow we arrived unharmed. We stepped out and Matt leaned in to pay him and he was asleep, snoring. Matt had to wake him up to pay him. Have you ever heard of a narcoleptic cab driver?) Be careful in the city :)

Note to Duane:

I found the Harvey's Bowl at Midway!
BPB

This week's stuff:

I think this is my first found in the wild tiki stirrer stick:

So now that I've started my stirrer stick collection, how many more do I need until I have them all?

Kapu-Kai and Outrigger postcards:

New Zealand Maori napkins with a couple tikis and a club on them

Moai tissue dispenser:

I traded some of my matchbook doubles I got a couple weeks ago for these:

Buzzy Out!
M
McTiki posted on Tue, Apr 6, 2010 4:06 PM

Ok Ohana......What is this?

I know I have seen it before, but, I no can find. And yes, I realize that it is a lamp.

BOT? Nope! Google Images? Nope! Ebay history? Nope!

Is it even Tiki? I thought it more of an Aztec influence, but, wanted it anyways.
E

On 2010-04-06 16:06, McTiki wrote:
Ok Ohana......What is this?

I know I have seen it before, but, I no can find. And yes, I realize that it is a lamp.

BOT? Nope! Google Images? Nope! Ebay history? Nope!

Is it even Tiki? I thought it more of an Aztec influence, but, wanted it anyways.

It looks native american; specifically like a hopi or zuni kachina: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_Kachina_dolls
H

Don't see them that big that often, mostly carved wood under 12".
Atlantes statues-Toltec- Down Mexico Way

Not the same as The Atlantes...Different God maybe....The small ones I have seen had Made in Mexico on bottom...
"The games afoot" S.H.

[ Edited by: hottiki 2010-04-06 20:44 ]
H

I'm not so sure...
MR

I think I may have a decanter with matching shot glasses that is very similar.
H

[ Edited by: hottiki 2011-03-16 00:44 ]
H

Yes, now that looks like a match.
ATP

Clearly this is the origin of your lamp, but be warned, it is cursed....Brahahahahahahah....
Z
Zeta posted on Wed, Apr 7, 2010 4:32 AM

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=35270&forum=6&hilite=tiwanaku
PTD

On 2010-04-04 17:07, TikiMookie wrote:
Matt took me to SF this weekend for my birthday and we found a few things. Picked up the TV 75th Anniversary mug in Emeryville, CA. (and had a scorpion) Went antiquing and found a few others.

Note to Duane:

I found the Harvey's Bowl at Midway!

Melody,

Happiest of birthdays to a fellow Aries and it sounds like you had an amazing time on your adventure. It appears you hit all the appropriate SF locales and the sleeping cab driver just adds to the fun.

Thanks for the heads-up on Midway...I usually find a few things there as well.

PTD
KK

Found a new antique/thrift store today....made some good scores:

a bar stool for $8.00

a set of PMP bamboo mugs for $10

a fu manchu for $4

and a hula wahine for $4

It is nice to find something upstate ny.....and when you do they usually have no idea what they are selling....it is usually marked as a vase.

KK
M

Orchids R-3 mug with jeweled eyes

Stand-up table card from the Tapa Room at the Hawaiian Village and a Kodak Hula show postcard
BK

Love that table card. Have you ever posted pics of that cool home bar of yours? You should.
M

On 2010-04-11 09:53, Big Kahuna wrote:
Love that table card. Have you ever posted pics of that cool home bar of yours? You should.

Yeah, it was a steal at $0.20 too! Here's a close-up:

Yes, I posted my bar photos quite a long time ago. I should probably repost to the new home-bar forum though:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=17606&forum=18&hilite=hai%27deaway
BPB

This weeks stuff:

I was overjoyed to get this CocoJoe's plaque today. I didn't have it yet, and it was only $8!

This got me all happy and giddy when I stumbled upon it yesterday

He has a knot in his right eye that looks like a pupil

I'd been hoping to get one of these some day. The crack on his arm is only on the shoulder. It's still attached at the hand and was never broken off there. There's another small hairline crack in the back as well. The seller wanted $7 for it, I pointed out the cracks and countered with $5 and we had a deal.

Guam ashtray that looks like the HIP one:

Mugs:
Trader Dicks and Harveys

Daga Al harrington and UCSD cancer fundraiser mug from last year's Longboard Invitational


Daga bamboo mugs from the Fogcutter

PNG mini mask

Bali hai and Kona kai matches

Another of Cook's journeys book. This one had a few good tiki and art pictures it in, and of those, a few were not common stock ones most other books like this use

I bought it just because it had this picture in it

And finally, a Tonga after shower lotion tiki bottle by Amway:


So when did Amway get in on the whole Tiki devolution/revival thing?

Buzzy Out!
UR

I hit the outdoor flea market today and picked up a few things...CHEAP....
$1 each for the sharks jaws and the carved wooden mugs marked "Made in the Philippines...$1.50 for the Hula girl still in the box and 25 and 50 cents each for the Orchids of Hawaii Tiki and the black tiki candle holder marked:
"Tiki Isles Enterprises, Longwood, Fla.

And I got a rubber rat that appears to be stealing treats from the "pee-nut" bowl.
T
Tiare posted on Sun, Apr 11, 2010 5:14 PM

Been finding good stuff lately in the wild. Kon tiki mug for 25 cents, Tonga Room mug for $2, small westwoods $2.
1

On 2010-04-11 14:15, Bay Park Buzzy wrote:
This weeks stuff:

I was overjoyed to get this CocoJoe's plaque today. I didn't have it yet, and it was only $8!

This got me all happy and giddy when I stumbled upon it yesterday

He has a knot in his right eye that looks like a pupil

I'd been hoping to get one of these some day. The crack on his arm is only on the shoulder. It's still attached at the hand and was never broken off there. There's another small hairline crack in the back as well. The seller wanted $7 for it, I pointed out the cracks and countered with $5 and we had a deal.

Guam ashtray that looks like the HIP one:

Mugs:
Trader Dicks and Harveys

Daga Al harrington and UCSD cancer fundraiser mug from last year's Longboard Invitational


Daga bamboo mugs from the Fogcutter

PNG mini mask

Bali hai and Kona kai matches

Another of Cook's journeys book. This one had a few good tiki and art pictures it in, and of those, a few were not common stock ones most other books like this use

I bought it just because it had this picture in it

And finally, a Tonga after shower lotion tiki bottle by Amway:


So when did Amway get in on the whole Tiki devolution/revival thing?

Buzzy Out!

Late 60's early 70's Buzzy.They also did a Paul Marshall style soap on a rope.
Wish I still had a picture of it , I sold it several years ago new old stock in
original box.I should have kept it .
8T

You can see the soap and box in BOT page 182
B


[ Edited by: Beachbumz 2010-10-08 18:33 ]
D
Dan posted on Thu, Apr 15, 2010 6:58 AM

On 2010-04-11 16:57, USAF Retired wrote:
I hit the outdoor flea market today and picked up a few things...CHEAP....
$1 each for the sharks jaws and the carved wooden mugs marked "Made in the Philippines...$1.50 for the Hula girl still in the box and 25 and 50 cents each for the Orchids of Hawaii Tiki and the black tiki candle holder marked:
"Tiki Isles Enterprises, Longwood, Fla.

And I got a rubber rat that appears to be stealing treats from the "pee-nut" bowl.

Really great finds for KY, I have a hard time finding anything here. I usually have much better luck digging up Kahiki stuff in southern Ohio.
PTD

Finds...(and gifts) from last week...


Bahooka's T-shirt


Trader Vic's Wine Cellar Menu


Trader Vic's Menu 1996.


Vintage and new swizzles from Oceanic Arts and notepad.


Moai mug, unmarked.


Treasure Craft "Spirit of Hawaii" mug.


Witco tiki.


Box of swag from 1961surf.


Trader Vic's 75th Anniversary T-thirt from 1961surf.


Bahooka's mug from 1961surf.


50th Anniversary of Hawaii mug, gift from Kevin.


Sam's Seafood mug, from lunch.


DTBC barrel mug and swizzle from lunch.


??? Carved wood tiki.


The only duplicate purchase I already had, cement Moai.



Vintage Hula Girl mug from Ceramics Unlimited Honolulu.


Tonga Room SF Hurricane glass.


Biere de Tahiti, unopened.


Okolehao bottle, full.



Rincon Room mug, gift from bongofury.


Stuff from my room at the Kon Tiki in Pismo Beach.


Hoodie from the Kon Tiki, Pismo Beach. Gift from the Tikihammer!

Later,

PTD
1

Nice haul D ...very nice .
PTD

These two today...


PNG concrete mask and a wood carved tiki!

Later,

PTD
SDT

On 2010-04-15 16:43, Psycho Tiki D wrote:


Moai mug, unmarked.


Okolehao bottle, full.

Great finds PTD. The Moai mug looks like Beauce ware.

Are you going to taste the Okolehau? I would (that's just me).
L

Duane I have that same unmarked Moai mug.

All I found today was 10 freakin Harvey's bucket mugs.....lordy!
PTD

Liz,

I know what you mean. Today I passed on buying four Harvey's bucket mugs, two Harvey's hula girl mugs, two different Westwood mugs, two Leilani mugs, one larger Coco Joe's hula girl (the guy wanted $25.00) and a Jim Beam Hawaii State bottle, since I already have them.

This was my only find today...


A cement garden tiki.

Later,

PTD
UR

I found a pair of identical twins today. No markings except "Taiwan" on the bottom. Oh! and these dudes have a serious case of man-boobs.
BB

USAF, Ha, ha! Those are not men. Better to say your wahine twins have serious facial non-atractiveness.
T

Had good day of hunting today.

2 Witco pieces (my first 2..I've finally popped my Witco cherry....now it's open season !) ), a few Coco Joes, and and some odd Trader Vics glasses....

Witco Sailboat, and tiki

Interesting Coco Joes ashtray and Lighter set, bottle opener, and a HIP Tiki.

Trader Vics Glasses that I've never seen before...set of 5.

Monstera Leaf Ashtray (says "Aloha Hawaii" on it)

A very satisfying day of Tiki finds.
T

All off this stuff was from 1 garage sale, which is rare here in Vegas
UR

On 2010-04-18 19:49, Bongo Bungalow wrote:
USAF, Ha, ha! Those are not men. Better to say your wahine twins have serious facial non-atractiveness.

Well, I had thought of that but dismissed it as not probable ...Im new to the tiki collecting , So is there a history of ugly women tiki's? Obviously the 2 that I bought are not old, but there must be some history of them, afterall who would think it profitable to make and market ugly women mugs?
PD

On 2010-04-19 16:16, USAF Retired wrote:

On 2010-04-18 19:49, Bongo Bungalow wrote:
USAF, Ha, ha! Those are not men. Better to say your wahine twins have serious facial non-atractiveness.

Well, I had thought of that but dismissed it as not probable ...Im new to the tiki collecting , So is there a history of ugly women tiki's? Obviously the 2 that I bought are not old, but there must be some history of them, afterall who would think it profitable to make and market ugly women mugs?

They are modern copies of Orchids Of Hawaii mugs.
I sent one out in my last 'mug swap' package.
B

Here are my first finds of the "busy season":

Bookends (I think); tourist or home-carved tiki; cool ice bucket

Fitz & Floyd Nautilus; Trader Vic's Hawaii sea horse

Set of 3 medium-sized floats

Here's an interesting one. Looks homemade, and cheaply done at that. However, on the base is this inscription:

Could this be a genuine artifact from Edmonton's Tiki Tiki? Any locals remember them carrying any mugs like this? I'll post it on the Tiki Tiki thread, too.
BBS

Nice finds up that way Brandomoai!!

It's been slim pickings here in Denver for the last few weeks.

But today I did find these...

A R-72 mug that I didn't have, Esquivel's Other Worlds, Other Sounds and a Triton's Trumpet Shell that has the tip knocked off.
I knew all those years of Trombone lessons would come in handy some day...

[ Edited by: Beach Bum Scott 2010-04-21 13:43 ]
PP

Found some great stuff over the weekend, but I'll limit to posting my favorite:

Says "Hawaii 1967" in sharpie. I don't know if it's authentic, or how rare these are, but I was stoked! (and only $10!)
T

On 2010-04-21 13:35, Beach Bum Scott wrote:
Nice finds up that way Brandomoai!!

It's been slim pickings here in Denver for the last few weeks.

But today I did find these...

A R-72 mug that I didn't have, Esquivel's Other Worlds, Other Sounds and a Triton's Trumpet Shell that has the tip knocked off.
I knew all those years of Trombone lessons would come in handy some day...

[ Edited by: Beach Bum Scott 2010-04-21 13:43 ]

Scott,
That isn't a Triton's Trumpet Shell. It is a Florida Horse Conch. It is a great shell to have, specially that size.
PTD

All off this stuff was from 1 garage sale, which is rare here in Vegas

What is the story on the Haunted Mansion piece? Looks interesting!

PTD
M

PTD- The Haunted Mansion piece is a puzzle box. There are several steps to slide open the side of the box, the lid comes off, the other side slides open and there is a drawer in the bottom. There are a couple of different sizes. In addition, there is a Walt Disney World version with a different graphic on the front. The box dates from the early 1970s.

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