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On 2010-10-11 17:45, kustomculture73 wrote:
i found these in a field near my work and it took 10 years to convince the owner to sell them to me. Oriental gardens in haverhill ma.they weigh in at about 1000 lbs each,9 feet tall and 3 feet wide.the best part is that i paid $300 for the pair.

Please tell us more! I'd love to hear the details on how you moved these.
K

i built a cradle and strapped them in one at a time.i had 3 friends help me lay them down against the tailgate of my truck.we were able to pick up the bottom and slide it in.my 1 ton truck was sagging pretty well.when i got them home,i backed up to my deck and got a bunch of 2 inch pipes under him and slid him out.i had to use a bottle jack,come along,and pulleys to stand them back up.they are on my deck now and will get moved on to platforms overlooking my driveway in the spring
AS

[ Edited by: Aquatic Safarinaut 2010-10-15 16:48 ]
L

$300! Awesome!
AS

On 2010-10-09 14:12, Beach Bum Scott wrote:
Thrift store find today but can't find any info, nothing on Ooga Mooga.
Bottom of the mug has Don Edward & Company in raised letters.

have one of these mugs too. If you set it side by side with either the speckled white or speckled colored Trader Vic's 1963 Fog Cutter you would swear that all three have to be from the same mold...
K

On 2010-10-15 16:49, leleliz wrote:
$300! Awesome!

i went in real low figuring the owner would come back really high.when he said yes,i paid him on the spot and removed them the same day.i was thinking about selling one and keeping one,but i don't think i could part with either of them
L

Kustomculture73 where do you have these on display now? Would love to see those pics as well
BK

On 2010-10-16 15:21, leleliz wrote:
Kustomculture73 where do you have these on display now? Would love to see those pics as well

That looks like the deck of a Hampton Beach cottage to me.
L

BK I thought the pic he had posted was where he bought them from...I think you are right :)

NOt very quick on the photo placement connection !
K

On 2010-10-16 17:30, leleliz wrote:
BK I thought the pic he had posted was where he bought them from...I think you are right :)

NOt very quick on the photo placement connection !

they are across from boars head,where hampton beach and north beach meet.here are a few more pictures
L

thanks for the pics...bummer you painted them though..they looked awesome in their original state (but that is just my opinion!)
B

My most recent finds...

A bunch of Mugs, a cool ship's compass, my first real Japanese float, a Shag clock and a vintage dashboard Hula girl...
PTD

Pretty good day today...


Pirate grog mug.


Vintage Hawaii travel brochures.


Coco Joe's petroglyph astray.


Stockton Islander hula girl mug.


Stockton Islander pineapple mugs.


Larger Harvey's hula bowl.


Lanai San Mateo peanut mugs.



Fairmont Tonga Room San Francisco drum mugs.


Tiki shaker, came with the drum mugs, supposedly from the Tonga Room, I have never seen this before.

Later,

PTD

[ Edited by: Psycho Tiki D 2010-10-17 12:27 ]
L

Duane how nice you found 2 of the Islander, Lanai and Tonga Room ---1 each for you and 1 for me ,right?

Such a good friend you are !

:wink:

great finds today. Have not seen anyone post that Tonga Room mug in a long time. Glad to see you found the pair.
ATP

On 2010-10-15 16:52, Aquatic Safarinaut wrote:

On 2010-10-09 14:12, Beach Bum Scott wrote:
Thrift store find today but can't find any info, nothing on Ooga Mooga.
Bottom of the mug has Don Edward & Company in raised letters.

have one of these mugs too. If you set it side by side with either the speckled white or speckled colored Trader Vic's 1963 Fog Cutter you would swear that all three have to be from the same mold...

I have one of these from "Trader Vic's Toronto" mid 60s
D

pppppppppppffffffffffttttttttttt......

3 Orchids of Hawaii (I left two on the shelf)
1 Tommy Bahama

And one not so pppppppppffffffffffffttttt.....

Hawaiian Village Tampa (near and dear to my heart). 99.9% of the paint is intact, OMC sticker on bottom.
B

A few Tiki finds from around Middle Tennessee and we had dinner at the Omni Hut with some fellow Tikifiles as well.

Thanks for looking,

Paul
K

Here's a few of the cooler "tiki-related" finds I've come across in the last few months. Just got a new camera, so finally got some time to post.

BOT...little chunk out of the cover, but got it for next to nothing. Now when people want to know more about tiki, I've got a loaner book.


Original Don's coconut mug. Ironically enough, I found this within 2 days of the new mug release.

Some old japanese floats.



One of the cooler rattan piece's I've found in a while. Has a nice modern feel to it. I refinished everything but the feet. The only problem is that the shelves are about half an inch short of holding records standing straight up.



This is my favorite recent find. An old sawfish rostrum. It measures about 24" long. I'm not quite sure of the exact species.
STCB

Garage sale finds from Saturday:

I've been looking for the African Sounds lp for a long time.
D

I've been looking for the In The Raw lp since your post today.
HT

My wife and I spent the last 2 weeks in the Northwest, Oregon and Northern Calif. Finding Hawaiian and Tiki items in that part of the US is difficult. We found a few mugs, Islander, volcano bowl, and Hawaiian cottage, large Japan float, and some stirring sticks from Hawaii. Also a couple of odds and ends. It was a lot of fun.
S

A few recent finds: Hawaiian Inn paddle-sucking mug, Kon Tiki fogcutter, and (much to my surprise) a Trader Vic'c Seahorse for $8.
K

witco tiki bar?
H

About two years ago i bought this wooden Moai figure on a flea market in Basel / Switzerland.

and I recently found this picture of Sophia Loren with the "premio Moai" (or Moai award) on the cover of a magazine from Chile.

My Moai figure looks very similar an has the same size, only the base is missing, but there are remnants of glue where the base was.
Probably a copy of "premio Moai" as a souvenir...?
PTD

These trinkets today...

And a few records I will post in Tiki Music!

PTD
B

On 2010-10-19 15:47, kustomculture73 wrote:
witco tiki bar?

Nope: Witco Conquistador bar
PR

On 2010-10-21 05:25, HelveTiki wrote:
About two years ago i bought this wooden Moai figure on a flea market in Basel / Switzerland.

My Moai figure looks very similar an has the same size, only the base is missing, but there are remnants of glue where the base was.
Probably a copy of "premio Moai" as a souvenir...?

Looks the same to me. Wow what a great find... tikibars needs to see this...
BPB

On 2010-10-21 05:25, HelveTiki wrote:


Probably a copy of "premio Moai" as a souvenir...?

Looks the same to me.

Hmmmm....Really?
other than they are both Moais carved from wood, I see virtually nothing that is same between the two.

To my eyes, those two look as different from each other as these mugs do...

To quantify my opinion, I'll provide some observations on the different pieces.
Here's my list of what looks different between the two carvings:

  1. The backs of the heads. One carver used a curved line, while the other used two straight lines meeting to form an obtuse angle.
  2. The concave on the backs are opposite of each other. One curves inward, the other curves outward
    3.Chest line is parallel to the jaw line on one, they're at an angle on the other.
  3. The high ridge line on the face extends to the nose and lips on one, it ends before that on the other one
  4. The way the neck forms to the chest on the award one is done totally different from the other. Top one- the shoulder line is horizontal, while the other is askew.
  5. Arms-One has the arms at the back of the torso and they are well defined, the other is in the middle of the torso and carved with no detail
  6. The cheeks next to the noses are different: One straight and parallel to the nose, the other is curved to the nose.
  7. Ear goes to the top of the head on one, the other is below the top of the head.
    9.top of the nose line is parallel to the ear on one, it's at a 45angle on the other
  8. The nose curves on one and forms an arc to the forehead, while the other is a continous flat line.

However, they both have glue on them, so based on that fact alone, I'm going to say that both of those pictures are of the EXACT SAME TIKI!

On to my finds...
Here are some trinkets that used to be owned by King Kamahemehaha himself:
A sandstone HIP tiki with the tag

Two Coco jOe's tikis

A Hawaii themed yearbook from some jrsr High school between Glandale and Pasedena:




I looked at the school's current site and it looks like that school is there so that Glendale and Pasadena can keep their API scores a little higher. :wink:

Rotorua silk scarf:

Buzzy Out!
8T

S&P set, Candle Holder and what I think is a newer Aquarium decoration.
H

On 2010-10-24 17:17, Bay Park Buzzy wrote:

Hmmmm....Really?

To quantify my opinion, I'll provide some observations on the different pieces.
Here's my list of what looks different between the two carvings:

  1. The backs of the heads. One carver used a curved line, while the other used two straight lines meeting to form an obtuse angle.
  2. The concave on the backs are opposite of each other. One curves inward, the other curves outward
    3.Chest line is parallel to the jaw line on one, they're at an angle on the other.
  3. The high ridge line on the face extends to the nose and lips on one, it ends before that on the other one
  4. The way the neck forms to the chest on the award one is done totally different from the other. Top one- the shoulder line is horizontal, while the other is askew.
  5. Arms-One has the arms at the back of the torso and they are well defined, the other is in the middle of the torso and carved with no detail
  6. The cheeks next to the noses are different: One straight and parallel to the nose, the other is curved to the nose.
  7. Ear goes to the top of the head on one, the other is below the top of the head.
    9.top of the nose line is parallel to the ear on one, it's at a 45angle on the other
  8. The nose curves on one and forms an arc to the forehead, while the other is a continous flat line.

However, they both have glue on them, so based on that fact alone, I'm going to say that both of those pictures are of the EXACT SAME TIKI!

thanks Bay Park Buzzy... of course you're right.
please excuse my bad English :wink:

I meant not exactly the same ... only that it is quite similar, or may have the same origin, maybe.
who knows how many of those were ever carved.
a friend of mine has bought one too and that one looks slightly different.
BPB

On 2010-10-25 00:06, HelveTiki wrote:
I meant not exactly the same ...

I had what you said right. I was just wondering what Phil was seeing. It looks like I cut his name out when I quoted him. Sorry about that. "Same" is different than "similar" to me. I see them as similar, but not the same. You see them as similar, and not the same, like I did. I put the point by point so eyes untrained to the minute differences in similar carvings could see if they agree/disagree with
what I see/think. It was kind of wordy,so I figured most people woild skip over it anyway and get to the pictures.
I'd get a vintage surf trophy and glue it on to it. then I'd make a fake bronze plaque for it like "1st Place Rapa Nui Pacific Surf World Champinship 1955" for it. That'd be double neat! tiki and surf go together like tropical drinks and tiki mugs.

Buzzy Out!
T

Some finds on our recent trip through Tennessee.
S

Found two Kon Tiki Ports covered coconut condiment jars last weekend

[ Edited by: sputnikmoss 2010-10-26 09:13 ]
BB

This candle is about 12 inches tall, bought for $2.50.
A

On 2010-10-26 03:41, tedtiki wrote:
Some finds on our recent trip through Tennessee.

Two Don the Beachcomber long necks, you lucky chap!
UT

Been way way to busy lately working 7 12's and finally had a day off to hunt. I have been looking for a war club in the wild for years and found two within a half hour on Saturday. The first is from Fiji made of heavy wood and about 2 1/2" long.

Love this one. Nearly two feet long and hand carved and painted from 1945. Probably a memento from a vet's time in the Pacific.


A nice carved Moai about a little over a foot tall.

And this small carving. Looks to be similar to the kamanggabi figures from New Guinea.

"Anyone who has ever seen them is thereafter haunted as if by a feverish dream" Karl Woermann

[ Edited by: uncle trav 2010-10-27 09:51 ]
BB

Nice Trav!
M

You found those in Michigan,nice score uncle trav.
BK

Great stuff, Trav!
UT

Thanks guys. And yes, all found close to home here in Mi.
B

That paddle especially! That belongs in a museum.
T

GREAT FINDS TIKITED
P
Paipo posted on Fri, Oct 29, 2010 3:30 AM

TT


Nice vintage velvet for $7...
L

Nice velvets ..the both of you :)

Kahiki Salt & Pepper Shakers


[ Edited by: leleliz 2010-10-30 11:26 ]
T

On 2010-10-27 05:31, atomictonytiki wrote:

On 2010-10-26 03:41, tedtiki wrote:
Some finds on our recent trip through Tennessee.

Two Don the Beachcomber long necks, you lucky chap!

I think I peed a little when I saw them.
P

On 2010-10-29 08:59, leleliz wrote:
Nice velvets ..the both of you :)

In case you don't know ATP pointed out the following to me yesterday so I plan on reposting this comment above every Tiki Find entry from now until the end of time...

Seriously...why drag this crap into this forum too now? Did you really need a whole page of self-serving waffle for a pair of S+P shakers? You're trying to bait someone, who may or may not respond and thus turn this thread into yet another TC trainwreck. I'm sick of this tit-for-tat stuff that seems to be infesting various corners of TC...if this really is your favourite thread, why not keep it on topic, post awesome stuff with as much or little info as you care to share...and leave your conflicts with other members in the threads that started them?
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Paipo posted on Fri, Oct 29, 2010 8:58 PM

leleliz
Posts: 1800
From: NorCal
Posted: 2010-10-29 12:16
Hey don't ruin the tiki finds thread by being a little complaining bitch.oh and I will do and post what I want.thanks!

I am not going to respond via PM as I'm really not interested in stooping to your level. If you feel justified in spoiling a perfectly good collecting thread with a gripe you've dragged halfway across the forums from a locked thread in "General", please post your reasoning here for everyone to see and do not PM me again. You seem to have a habit of personally attacking people on TC when you don't agree with their opinions.

On 2002-09-16 21:24, TikiGuy wrote:
Hey let's start a bit of a brag board where you can show what great finds you got on the weekend from yard sales, parents attics, junk shops, deals with the devil, etc....

Just to get things back on track, here is some stuff I picked up some time ago but never got around to posting. This is the leftover stock from a souvenir business that closed down in Auckland...6 of the wooden original carved masters and about 70 resins. The company was called "Bird Hill". I have no idea who the carver was, but the work is top shelf.

When I find the folder of the individual carvings, I'll post those too.

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