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Trader Vic's Speckled Fogcutter.

Found stocked with the vases at a local thrift store. $8

gabbahey
BB

This is a glass candle holder with three faces. Hard to tell in the photo, but the faces are red glass and glow when the candle is lit. I wonder where this tiki item came from. I'm thinking it's a cheap item from someplace like Spencer's Gifts.

[ Edited by: Bongo Bungalow 2011-04-08 11:34 ]
PTD

Bongo,

Nice find, I like it. Not sure if it is old or not but it looks pretty cool!

PTD
PTD

From today...


Some more matchbooks.


3 Coco Joe's and 1 HIP tikis


This looks like another Tiki wood project, marked 1969 on the back.


Vintage speargun.

Later,

PTD
D

Had to take Mrs. DC to pick up her car at the repair shop, decided to stop by the thrift on the way home.

Being the month of the Fez, it was appropriate that I found one of the Bud Baird Shriner mugs that Doctor Z had posted before. Also a nice pineapple mug.

The real score of the day was this AMAZING 3-foot long Marquesan carved canoe pretty much intact. Looks like the one at the Bali Hai.

Needs a little TLC but when it is polished up and put back together it is going to be awesome. Still has some original feathers attached to the canoe. Will post better photos in Tiki Boats when I get it put together.

DC
E

What, doesn't everyone fix some slight leg trauma with rubber bands? Damn tribbles.

On 2011-04-04 12:35, vegastikidude wrote:

What happened to the Mego Dr. McCoy?

On 2011-03-31 22:24, ErkNoLikeFire wrote:
Found this before I came in to work.

This is the first one I've ever found!!!!

[ Edited by: vegastikidude 2011-04-04 12:41 ]
HOK

On 2011-04-08 11:33, Bongo Bungalow wrote:
This is a glass candle holder with three faces. Hard to tell in the photo, but the faces are red glass and glow when the candle is lit. I wonder where this tiki item came from. I'm thinking it's a cheap item from someplace like Spencer's Gifts.

Is this built around a glass shot glass? I have a vintage Coco Joe that is built around a shot glass, looks like it held a candle. A battery operated "candle" works really well in it....
BB

Mine is built around a glass alright, but bigger than a shot glass, more like a tumbler. The glass texture looks a lot like yours HoKu. I'd be pleased to find out that it's a CocoJoe.

Dusty that's a FANTASTIC canoe! Wow!

[ Edited by: Bongo Bungalow 2011-04-09 03:45 ]
B

Thais is an awesome find!

Thanks for sharing,

Paul
B

New Tiki Finds, Omni Hut Tiki Farm 50th Anniversary mugs in Brown and Purple.

They will ship these anywhere in the world, we love em!

Paul
PTD

Starting out this morning pretty early and low and behold who do I see checking out a couple of Mark Thomas Outrigger Moai mugs, my pal rugbymatt. I thought I was the only one who was up at 6:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning to hunt and now I know better! Good to chat and walk with you Matt and thanks for the help loading the Witco bench!

Here are my finds from today...


More matchbooks...anyone heard of the Lanai Room in Merced California?


Fisherman's Wharf Hawaii seahorse mug and a bucket mug from Sun Wung Heung San Francisco.


Witco bench, thanks again Matt for helping me carry and load this!

At the beginning of this morning, I asked Matt to come over to check out this box of stuff I found. I could not place the style on some of the pieces. Matt and I thought they were PNG and when we spoke to the seller he confirmed they were and were brought back to the US by a gentleman stationed there during WWII. Not sure if all the pieces are PNG, so any experts that can help me identify these pieces, I would appreciate it immensely:


Shell neckpiece?


Smaller head made out of bone.


Another necklace made out of shell and bone or tortoise shell.


Necklace made of shell and boar's tusk.


Not even sure what this is supposed to be, looks like Felix the Cat on acid.


Wood carving.


Hook piece.


And the face looks familiar, but I can't remember the name?

Thanks,

PTD
BB

Outstanding Psycho! I'm still mostly collecting Leilani mugs and you're bringing home stuff like that!
B

PTD, where is all this gonna GO!? :D I bet you have a space problem similar to mine...

Never seen anything form the Merced Lanai, that is a cool matchbook! Looks like Balinese palm front masks. "Lanai" always sounds like those hotel lounges that jumped on the Polynesian train to me. And there seem to have been quite a few Fireside Restaurants too...

That stuff - sorry, those artefacts - all looks PNG to me. Tourist pieces, but WWII tourist pieces! I never understand how scholars draw the line with PNG stuff between tourist and museum pieces, when there was no break in the carving tradition and the manufacture from ritual to souvenir art was seamless. There are turn-of-the century tourist pieces in museums, so why not mid-century.
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PTD

I have been scouring the internet trying to identify the pieces, but the last one I have been able to pinpoint to a PNG Dream Face Mask...here is one found that is similar to mine:


Description:

Dream Face Mask, Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, Tambunum Village. The design for this mask came many years ago in a dream to a man who was a member of the Sago Clan. Eventually he allowed other clans to use his “mark” and so they can now made by all four clans in Tambunum. They generally include clan symbols on the forehead and/or chin. This remarkable mask shows two totemic animals, a bird of prey capturing a snake. Snakes are universally hated in New Guinea and so are not commonly depicted in the art. A beautifully carved mask with lots of incised detail. The places where they left the natural color of the wood gives this mask a stunning look. 30.75 inches tall.

Interesting the snake is universally hated in PNG. Not sure what the symbolism is on mine with a snake eating a frog?

Later,

PTD
T

Grandpa from The Munsters.

[ Edited by: trutiki 2011-04-12 16:18 ]
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On 2011-04-12 16:16, trutiki wrote:
Grandpa from The Munsters.

Why not? After all, PNG tribesmen also portrayed "The Phantom" on their shields:

"...The Phantom worked his way into Papua New Guinean consciousness via the comic books left by American soldiers fighting the Japanese along the coast back in the '40s. The books eventually made their way into the interior of the country and the phantom started popping up on shields some time in the 1960s. Presumably the tribesmen who painted the images came into contact with other superheroes, but The Phantom seems to be a favourite..."

:D
PTD

Nosferatu, not so much...but Grandpa Munster, now you are talking!

Now if I could only find the PNG Dragula or Munster's Coach??

PTD
A

More matchbooks...anyone heard of the Lanai Room in Merced California?

Never heard of it, but it appears 17th Street is now Main Street. And at 350 W. Main St. is some place called DeAngelo's. Building looks like it's been there a long time so I presume it's the same place.
TM

On 2011-04-08 21:50, Dustycajun wrote:
Had to take Mrs. DC to pick up her car at the repair shop, decided to stop by the thrift on the way home.

Being the month of the Fez, it was appropriate that I found one of the Bud Baird Shriner mugs that Doctor Z had posted before. Also a nice pineapple mug.

.

DC

whoa !! you are not suggesting a connection between shriners, fezzes and tiki are you ??? :)
S

My workmate found this at a place he gets his lunch from. There's a couple of other flavours with different coloured cans. I might get them all.
LL

Found this candle holder at the thrift store:

My wife brought this guy home from thrifting, a little while back. Is it supposed to resemble some pre-columbian style? Really not sure what to make of it. Could be an 10-year-old's clay art project. Or,... what? The clay has some little pieces of limestone, here and there, and it might have been smoked.
PR

I stand corrected

[ Edited by: Phillip Roberts 2011-04-16 10:48 ]
SF

Looks like a Gauguin.
LL

On 2011-04-15 21:16, Slacks Ferret wrote:
Looks like a Gauguin.

Yes, it's one of Gauguin's Tahitian paintings ("Eu haere ia oe"), though the image is reversed.

"The rum's the thing..."

[ Edited by: Limbo Lizard 2011-04-15 22:16 ]
PTD

Not much today, lots for sale, lots of the usual suspects, but this was it...

Later,

PTD
W

This lovely lady has been gracing our walls for a number of years now. My husband found her in the trash. He spoke with the man throwing her away and asked if he could buy her, to which the man replied "it's trash, you can just have it". My husband feeling it wouldn't be fair just to take her, gave the man $5.00.

"Kama" is part of the family. We tell her story often and have shared her with many. I just found this site today and thought a few of you might appreciate her as well.

We've seen many Tyree's and we believe Kama is among one of his best.

She's in great condition, complete with the original carved wood frame, signature, title and date.

Enjoy!
E
KK

Found this little set hidden on the back of a shelf in an antique shop.

KK
KK

This album was a gift from a friend who knows what I like!!! Has a complete booklet built into the album cover. Excellent condition from 1968.

KK
S

I love that ETR album Kraig :)

Save the suffocating menehuenes!!

Those female ones are top heavy and won't stand up
N

I haven't been out looking much the past few weeks. Luckily, the yellow mug appeared at my door in the latest swap. The other is the plastic Kona Coffee mug.
TS

Went to the flea market Sunday and all I got was this lousy CocoJoes #109 for $5.00........
SM

My daughter found this set of 8 Port and Starboard glasses while thrifting today!
They are minty fresh from box.
SM

[ Edited by: Sparkle Mark 2011-04-20 18:18 ]
S

Holy Crap Sparkle Mark! That's an amazing find! I've been looking for years and have never even seen ONE anywhere.
E

very nice set of glasses!!!
T

Those glasses are a great find. Congrats.
PTD

Nice, nice find on the port and starboard light glasses, I have yet to find the clear ones myself.

Garden tiki...


Kind of along the lines of a Target or Big Lots, not sure who sold these originally?

Later,

PTD
DZ

On 2011-04-20 18:17, Sparkle Mark wrote:
My daughter found this set of 8 Port and Starboard glasses while thrifting today!
They are minty fresh from box.

Those are niiiiiiiiiiiice! Too bad they're not sellin' for what they used to 'back in the day'. I sold a pair in 2003 to a guy on eBay for $1,600.00!
PTD

Today's finds...


Tiki Farm Warrior mug from the Wailea Marriott in Maui, Hawaii. I have seen the brown one but not this color tan. Daga Petroglyph mug from the Sheraton Royal Waikoloa and a small Harvey's Sneaky Tiki swizzle.

Later,

PTD

[ Edited by: Psycho Tiki D 2011-04-22 14:24 ]
BK

Other than my amazing trip to SoCal, I didn't find much stuff this winter. The Spring has already been good to me, but I'll start with my finds & acquisitions from SoCal.:
A killer Big Toe print I picked up from him at the GNRS:

My trip to Oceanic Arts yielded a pair of Crazy Al door knobs & a Crazy Al switch plate:


Also, this swag lamp for a mere $22.50. How can you beat that?:


Finally this nice little Marquesan Tiki:


My new friend & favorite bartender, Kelly was nice enough to give me one of her menus. Thanks, Kelly!:

How's this for a line-up? A mug from my trip to Don's, A pendant from hottiki, a Zombie mug from Kahuna Kent, the first mug in the Sven Kirsten collection from Bahooka, a Rumpus Room pendant, Thanks Kirby! & a killer mug by AtomicTikiTony from OA & a set of GROG's Moai S&Ps. What a great trip! I should be back in November!
BK

The rest of my winter finds just consist of a few mugs:
BK

So far, Spring has started off well!
A few good matchbooks for free:

This amazing photo album from a serviceman's tour in the South Pacific in 1944. I'll post more pics of this in my WWII thread in Beyond Tiki.




On the same hunting trip I scored the photo album, I also found this guy. I'm gonna have to create a special space for him.

[ Edited by: Big Kahuna 2011-04-23 20:59 ]
UT

Nice full court press in your finds BK. It has been slow here but slowly starting to ramp up. Thanks for sharing.
H

Wow Rick you covered a lot of territory in your visit! Thanks for including my menu in your tiki collection. It will be fun to visit again very soon, you need to move to Ca. :)
BK

Hey, Kelly. I had a great time on my trip, but I missed Tiki-Ti, Trader Vic's & Tiki No, as well as a bunch of Hot Rod places I wanted to visit, so I'm just gonna have to come back in November. :D I've got a list of things I need to get done before I can make the move, but I'll be living there for sure within 5 years, hopefully sooner. Til then, you'll probably see me twice a year.
TM

Picked these up recently- finally got a set i can hang up and use. Now i can sell the set I have in original packaging. I didn't want to open the package up and compromise it's collectable value so look for a mint set in box of these soon on ebay.....
B

On 2011-04-28 09:02, bongofury wrote:
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