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BK

More stuff!
H

BigK- never seen those HU KE LAU SnP before
U are on a roll

[ Edited by: hang10tiki 2017-02-12 12:54 ]
BK

These are from the past few months. I do a LOT of hunting!
BK

Few more.
N''

All supercool Big K.Particularly dat Lulu from Honolulu matchbook
Mahalo for sharing
BK

More

Some additions to my library.
H

Kon Tiki spoon

An album I didn't have

2 Don Ho swiZZers

Tony's glass

And ran across another squatting tiki
It was a mess
Painted body and eyes :(
Cleaned it
Sanded it
Cleaned up great with Howard feed-n-wax
Looks much better

http://www.friendsoftobi.org/tobithings/monkeymen/wavellsacredsouvenir2002.pdf

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

[ Edited by: hang10tiki 2017-02-15 15:23 ]
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It's not a great, unusual Tiki find by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm just glad to have FINALLY gotten a Nautilus from Trader Sam's. I have some friends who go to WDW semi-annually but it's always been sold out every time they've gone. FINALLY they got their hands on one, and got me a couple other Grog Grotto mugs as well. And I am stoked about this because I am a huge Jules Verne fan, so this holy grail is the marrying of two great loves.
PP

Cleaned up at an estate sale in Erie, PA. A basement bar that was almost like a mini Kon Tiki Cleveland!
N''

Way to go PP! Congrats on a really nice find/finds. I wouldn’t mind looking at close-ups of those tiki’
s and dat menehune .
Cheers
D

Pittsburgh pauly that would make a great postcard. More close ups please. Wendy

PS I was just admiring the dish you made for us for the swap
S

picked up a couple new concrete "garden gnomes" at a statuary in a suburb of Tulsa - great detail on the moai
C

I moved to Reno 3 weeks ago. Here is about half of what I have found so far...

A gang of Trader Dick's OMC Peanuts, a couple of Trader Dick's Surfer Girls, a pair of Duncan Stackers dated 1971, a vintage Orchids mug w/ jewel eyes, an Orchids coconut, the usual Harvey's suspects...

But this guy is the one I'm most excited about:.

It was cast from a Trader Vic's Fogcutter, or it was a genuine TV mug that was marked "The Reef" and glazed over with a clear coat.

You can even see the where it says "Made For Trader Vic's 1963" underneath "The Reef". I was speculating that it might have been from The Reef here in Reno, but there are plenty of places with that name so who knows...
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Hamo posted on Wed, Feb 22, 2017 7:23 PM

I left work early on Presidents' Day afternoon to go flea marketing with friends and family. Wasn't expecting to find much tiki in northern Colorado, so I was surprised when my sister pointed out a booth with quite a few items, and then I found this "set" of two peanut mugs (at 30% off):

I really wanted the one from the Tonga Room, since I visited it nearly one year ago. I already have another (older?) one from Trader Dick's with different printing on the back (left):
BK

Still more!
L

Found this at a thrift store in Morro Bay. The gentleman working there told me that he got it at an estate sale where he was told it came from Harvey's Lake Tahoe. They do appear to match the figures on the Harvey's mugs.
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On 2017-02-25 18:19, lancelink wrote:
Found this at a thrift store in Morro Bay. The gentleman working there told me that he got it at an estate sale wher://tikicentral.com/uploads/76468/58b23adb.jpg[/img]

Nice Lance. What are the dimensions of your find?
Cheers
D

We had such good luck on our latest hunt. This ash tray has no markings. We had never seen one like it before.

The wooden carved bottle opener was also new for us as was the Coco Joes with a pearl in it's mouth. I'd seen those on this thread before but this was the first one in the wild.

It is so impossible to own one of every tiki ever made. This thread comes close to having them all! Wendy
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On 2017-02-25 23:00, nui 'umi 'umi wrote:

On 2017-02-25 18:19, lancelink wrote:
Found this at a thrift store in Morro Bay. The gentleman working there told me that he got it at an estate sale wher://tikicentral.com/uploads/76468/58b23adb.jpg[/img]

Nice Lance. What are the dimensions of your find?
Cheers

It measures 40 inches tall and 11 1/4 inches wide.
D

lancelink that's a wow item for sure. Wendy
S

Awesome find! Look for the Schwepps advertisement that was taking in the Kon-Tiki Montreal. I believe your lamp is on the table.
H

Today was mostly about the glass

And

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

[ Edited by: hang10tiki 2017-03-02 15:22 ]
E

I went to eight thrift stores and the only things I found were this trio in the first one.

[ Edited by: exquisitecorpse 2017-03-21 21:07 ]
UT

Great finds everyone!! I've been in a loooooong dry spell in the tiki finds department. Hopefully that means a good find is on the way :D
H

Go get em UnKa T
H

:)

Tiki Time Drummer

If you have never seen it in action
Google it
:)
T

On 2017-02-21 13:07, stevekh wrote:
picked up a couple new concrete "garden gnomes" at a statuary in a suburb of Tulsa - great detail on the moai

Far out! That's a copy of my Universal Statuary Corporation Tiki!
Which I'm slowly trying to restore. http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=51571&forum=18&start=15

Interesting. Very interesting...
B

Found a previously unlisted Brown version of the Luke tiki mug from Tiki's Grill & Bar in Waikiki at my local Salvation Army Thrift Store here in Colorado.
E

My wife's chance thrift store find of an old palette knife painting on tile...

Has become a fresh decoration for the impending King Kong-themed Tiki party we're holding soon...
D

EnchantedTikiGoth that was inspired. I can't stop smiling. Wendy
H

Nice Kong

Slow week here
E

On 2017-03-20 14:32, danlovestikis wrote:

EnchantedTikiGoth that was inspired. I can't stop smiling. Wendy

Thanks! I've been wanting to do something with a crappy thrift store painting for a while. This was a first experiment :)
D

EnchantedTikiGoth I think this was perfect.
MAM

tiki soap on a rope

apparently the same mold had been used for mugs...
MAM

Met a gentleman who ran an antique store. Said we were looking for tiki and he said he had a menu at home, that we should come back in a day to let him find it. Turns out he was here, the Hawaii Kai, and it was on a date way back when in the early 60s. He'd saved up all his money for it, he said it was expensive ... after he told us the story, we asked him to sign the menu!

Exotica on reel-to-reel...

This was a weird kind of mask. At first glance not even sure whether or not to pass it up, but it did have the bright colors we remember from some of the stuff at the Kahiki...

But the metal eyes were of interest... especially because when you turn it around, it reveals that one of them has a peephole!

Testing it out...

Whoah! Going to have to figure out where to hang this one...

[ Edited by: mike and marie 2017-03-24 09:31 ]
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mike and marie that is the creepiest tiki story ever told. I wonder if anyone else has ever seen one like it. Wendy
S

pretty good score a few days ago - 1963 Trader Vic's fogcutter mug, a bunch of TV coconut mugs, a 30s Mirro cocktail shaker and another 40's printing of Mr. Bostons!
MAM

stevekh, nice to see all that older stuff, shows it's still out there...

wendy we may never look at a room full of tiki masks the same again! and hopefully they won't look at us the same either!
D

Hunting for tikis is more fun than eating a good meal.

Dan was on his knees looking for records at a shop in Jackson, CA.

We didn't buy these we have no more wall space. They were $250 for the pair.

Our next trip was to Oakdale, CA were we found the matchbook on the left.

We waited on F street for a half hour until this store opened. This display was all they had for tiki. We didn't buy anything here.

Wendy
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This is more of a vintage item than Tiki, but it fits in the kind of Disney-inspired scattershot Enchanted Tiki Kitchen we have, as well as our love for vintage Canadiana. It's a mug from the now-defunct Bengal Lounge in the Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia.
N''

I Like that pachyderm ETG, I think it would sit well in most tiki bars’ Mahalo for sharing.
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8mm film marked
"Hawaii Dec 1962"
:)

And at first I thought I had Alfred Apaka on film
But again dated 1962
Unless the date it off

He passed away in 1960

Sure looks like him
D

hang10tiki I feel as if you are the Son of Sven. Another wonderful tiki archeologist. They way you find albums and film and deliver it to us is outstanding. I love the photo of the Royal Hawaiian without the other hotels yet there. Thank you for all the time and effort this took, you made my morning great. Wendy
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Jon, sure does look like Alfred Apaka. I too like that capture of the Royal H. Bout the way it was when I first saw it as a young Jarhead in ’66. Only a few years after statehood.
Tanks for sharing Jon.
H

Thanks guys
Glad u like em as much as I do
Fun to find images from the past
H

13 inch
T

Like the Maori find...where did you get him?
H

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