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Recent purchases...

Can anyone identify the name of the Frank Schirman piece - i'm presuming it's Pele?
HT

I scored this bad boy for a measly $20. I'm very excited about it, and can't wait to mold it to make more!
HW

Major locks
AT

On 2013-05-08 05:24, Hale Tiki wrote:
I scored this bad boy for a measly $20. I'm very excited about it, and can't wait to mold it to make more!

YES !! Those are sweet I have one as well, different color glazing.
http://www.ooga-mooga.com/cgi-bin/all/mug.cgi?mode=view&mug_id=124&ind_mug_id=36456
Anyone have information on who made these originally?
HT

On 2013-05-08 12:18, Alii Tiki wrote:

On 2013-05-08 05:24, Hale Tiki wrote:
I scored this bad boy for a measly $20. I'm very excited about it, and can't wait to mold it to make more!

YES !! Those are sweet I have one as well, different color glazing.
http://www.ooga-mooga.com/cgi-bin/all/mug.cgi?mode=view&mug_id=124&ind_mug_id=36456
Anyone have information on who made these originally?

Nice. I was under the impression they were from a home mold. Mine has a signature on the bottom, an indent, and a hole. I think they're fantastic, and have wanted one for awhile. I've also seen a lot of them made into candle holders, which fortifies my home mold theory. But I could be totally off.
AT

There's one up on eBay right now with the eyes & mouth cutout.
It's listed as a candle holder and painted with what looks like spray on truck bed liner trying to be passed off as a Lava type glaze.
Not bad looking actually but with the freight it would be over $80
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mid-Century-Tiki-God-KU-Statue-vintage-Fat-Lava-finish-Candle-holder-Totem-/170993469636?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27d00148c4&ssPageName=RSS:B:SHOP:US:101
FT

On 2013-05-08 05:24, Hale Tiki wrote:
I scored this bad boy for a measly $20. I'm very excited about it, and can't wait to mold it to make more!

I got one of those Ku molds too. Got it from Mooneyes car show awhile back and it is custom painted. They are very cool. :D
R

Duncan mold...
R

Duncan mold...
HT

On 2013-05-09 10:34, ron-tiki wrote:
Duncan mold...

I figured it was probably them, but am surprised. Anyone have a catalog page?
T

Here are 2 recent finds from Arizona that my in-laws sent up.

Bucket mug

Candles
H

Lots of good finds everyone

Today's

Old photo album

Seller also had a lot of slides from Hawaii
Wouldn't sell them until they checked with the family. :(
But I did buy the slide projector to up my odds :)

Worst sound ever, slurp of an empty tiki mug through my straw!!!

[ Edited by: hang10tiki 2013-05-11 11:52 ]
K

Thanks so much Hang10Tiki for posting the photo album. I especially LOVE seeing old holiday photos of folks in the islands, clothes, hair, etc. Groovy.
H

Kaiwaza- glad I found them so I could post em

Went lookin for more today...
:)
T

Yesterday I met with Mike, a seller from craigslist. He had listed a few things that caught my eye. His former neighbor was a ninety one year old WWII veteran, Herb Wahl. Herb recently passed away from cancer. Herb started collecting tiki as soon as the war ended. Mike said many of the tiki items were sold to antique dealers but there were still many items left including the war club that I was interested in.

This is the Oceanic Arts war club that had caught my eye on craigslist. It is the same type that I found the pair of last month. It is 32" in length and was made in the 60's.

These war clubs and weapons were hanging on the wall.


Some tiki found hanging on the wall.

Some found on the counters.





This decanter is a strikow made for Kahlua between 1958 to 1960





The decanter is an original vintage Mai Kai.

Before I left, Mike offer me over twenty albums (78's) from the 30's through the 60's. Most of the albums were Hawaiian. Here's my favorites.


This inside cover reminds me of Shag's style.

I also liked the the white outline of the tiki on the album cover.

A close up of a WWII supporter of the war effort.

Mike is going to try to get photos of Herb in uniform and other details of his service to our country so that I can dedicate these findings to an early pioneer of tiki collecting. RIP Herb.

Mahalo,

TikiVato

[ Edited by: TikiVato 2013-05-11 19:22 ]
S

TikiVato loving these additions to your collection.

Thanks for sharing!

Have yet to find a Mai Kai decanter so I love seeing that .
BK

Great stuff, TV! Looks like you've hit your good juju quota, for the year, already!
N''

Wow! Instant collection. Folks, I was fortunate to see this stuff up close yesterday evening.All of it was first cabin. You done good little brother!
HT

WOW. Nice find Vato.
H

Vato- wow, awesome score

Jon
BPB

A few new items:

Cast resin Alan davey Studios Maori Patu:

Mugs:

Never had the MGM Grand one before...

More Luau matchbooks:

Buzzy Out!
H

Buzz- nice
Been lookin for the MGM and Ballys ones for a while.

Jon
BPB

On 2013-05-13 07:43, hang10tiki wrote:

Been lookin for the MGM ones for a while.

Jon

It even has the OMC sticker on it. If you don't find one for real cheap out there before your next trip to SD, you can have this one. I'll set it aside for you. Stop by for a visit and grab it next time you're down here...

Buzzy
H

Wow
Thanx Buzz
U the man
:)

Jon
TM

here's this past weekends flea market finds- a mug from the nugget casino in sparks nevada and a home ceramics tiki mug made from an old hawaiian village mug or some such thing- you know the one- it's a yellowish mug with black lines and white eyes. I forget the name of it, but this mug was most likely cast from a mold of it.
D

*On 2013-05-13 20:46, Tipsy McStagger wrote:*a home ceramics tiki mug made from an old hawaiian village mug or some such thing- you know the one- it's a yellowish mug with black lines and white eyes. I forget the name of it, but this mug was most likely cast from a mold of it.

That would be the one and only mug made for the Hawaiian Room at the Hotel Lexington in New York.

DC
PP

wow what a great thread!! the new GF and I spent all day mothers day going to the swap meet and then 10 thrift stores and hit the Mother load of hawaiian shirts, 30+, along with a boatload of tiki items......
Did I mention shes a mom and wanted to spend mothers day looking for tiki stuff with me?? God I love her!!!!

luckily, the thrift store Good Will does a great job of keeping "Like" items together, so I'll usually find hawaiian and african items lumped together, which makes it easy
PP

I think some thrift stores put out "seasonale" stuff per season, seems like mine always have Xmas items out all year round, but Im noticing more Summer related items lately

Id better change the photo of the two dogs in the frame before my dogs get jelous!!
PP

does anyone know anything about the two 1960s plastic hula girls in the last picture? I found four of them at the swap meet for $1.00 each and would love to find out if they are anything special
HT

Ugh, all these gorgeous Maori clubs make me sick. I would LOVE to find one. The best I've seen are the pathetic examples on ebay.
S

On 2013-05-14 08:43, Pele Paul wrote:
does anyone know anything about the two 1960s plastic hula girls in the last picture? I found four of them at the swap meet for $1.00 each and would love to find out if they are anything special

They aren't very valuable but they are vintage. From the 60s and were one of the popular souvenirs of the period. I have over 100+ hula girls and I have around 15 of this style. Lots of them came on bases that played music (generally a Hawaiian melody of course)

Even though they aren't valuable (like the chalkware ones are) you can still sell them for $15-$25 depending on the market of selling them.

Still...always a good find :)
PP

thanks so much, that helps alot. 15.00 is still a deal, awesome!!!
SDT

In the past month I've been the recipient of the following booty from people divesting themselves of their tiki collections or downsizing.

Trader Vic's Hawaii seahorse.

home crafted salt & pepper

knitted tiki from etsy

1952 edition of Erik Hesselberg's "Kon-Tiki And I" given to someone as a Christmas present in 1953. Text and drawings are totally charming.

"Pineapples, Passion Fruit and Poi: Recipes from Hawaii" by Mary Lou Gebhard and William H. Butler (1967).

drink recipes.
PP

that knitted tiki is tooooo cute!!!
CP

Here's my latest find, a pair of Tiki-ish wooden Cats. We went drinking with the kitties. Like all my pictures so far, they just relax and take the beachbum credo to the extreme. :drink:
PP

Not much in the hills around here lately, except this:

Oh, and it was $2.00

[ Edited by: Pittsburgh pauly 2013-05-20 10:48 ]
PP

found these at a cool little shop on sunday, so of course my GF wanted them so I HAD to buy them they were tooooo awesome
H

Made a few stops on the way to Tiki Caliente

IS IT?
D

hang10tiki, 8 tracks, I forgot those existed. That's one thing Dan can't play. He listened to one of the 78's you gave him yesterday and it played well. He's looking forward to the rest.

Here is our haul from Tiki Caliente. A wonderful party and shopping spree.
Lots of Eric October and John Mulder. We also shopped with Mahalo Tiki.
We received gifts from MadDogMike. Dan's having fun tiki arraigning in the house.

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2013-05-28 17:25 ]
HT

Dan, I'm so jealous that you got not one, but TWO of Mulder's mugs, AND the bowl.
PP

so cool!!! wish Id gone!!!!
I need to find a cheap hobby like collecting hats I find on the highway or something
K

Found this guy a couple of weeks ago. He looks Maori to me. It's one piece with back to back tikis. Someone seems to have tried to convert it into a candle holder and drilled a hole down the center and added an electric plate to catch the wax. That's my guess anyway.
HB

those are the lights on Trader Vic's tables
B

It's a vintage Trader Vic's table lamp. The original, not the new Poly-Asian import. It's famous :) It appeared in movies and in books.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aT3Ii3hWM0
FT

That video is too cool Sven. :D
K

On 2013-05-22 14:49, happy buddha wrote:
those are the lights on Trader Vic's tables

Wow, so I stumbled onto some real vintage swag? Cool! Thanks for letting me know!
K

On 2013-05-22 14:55, bigbrotiki wrote:
It's a vintage Trader Vic's table lamp. The original, not the new Poly-Asian import. It's famous :) It appeared in movies and in books.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aT3Ii3hWM0

Thanks for the info and the clip! That was a fantastic song.
B

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