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Buzzy, My wife laughed out loud when she saw how you used that TF stirrer.
Cheers

UT

Great stuff guys

BB

I am still surprised I found what appear to be glass floats this weekend. Maybe reproductions?

After some work, they will certainly do the trick.

T

Nice tie job on those floats.

BB

Thanks, Skip! 15 years later, I'm finally putting my Boy Scout knot skills to good use.

new stuff

Cooke Islands mini club

Maori print by Clint. Anyone ever heard of Clint?

Tahitian mini bowl

Maori carving

mini Tikinator

Truckload of floats and nets

Buzzy Out!

Buzzy again with the big scores!

Two great books

Oceanic mythology

And

The art of the south sea islands

I’ve never seen a book before that had the photos glued in

I've seen em glued in before Jon. Course I’m near 3 times your age.
Very nice finds!

:lol:

Found in a local thrift today. Only bout 12” long

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Hamo posted on Sat, Apr 14, 2018 5:02 PM

Just returned from a quick trip to Orange County with these “finds”: a mug and swizzles from Trader Sam’s, and shells from Sunset Beach on my walk to Don the Beachcomber.

New stuff

I left the swap meet a couple weeks ago, and a few hours later I get a picture message "Did you see this today?" My friend bought it, and I traded some stuff for it

She's a dirty girl

Pair of Guam Tkis found on separate trips

PCC mug

Driftwood pele

Tropics matchbook

kahiki stirrers

Buzzy Out!

Buzz- hang her up high

The Castaways low ball

S

Never seen anything like this before. And got it for what i think was an absolute bargain.

I was gifted this little guy (shooter) stamped Japan on the bottom. Now I have two.
Cheers

[ Edited by: nui 'umi 'umi 2018-04-18 14:04 ]

SwiZ- nice one

More eye candy
Another great book

Hang10tiki - just found this yesterday at the local used bookstore. Appears to be the same book as your "Art of the South Sea Islands" only titled differently. It is volume VIII of a 16 volume set of "Art of the World". This one titled "Oceania Australia", subtitled "Art of the South Seas". Same authors, same "glued in" photos, same cover art - only this one in a box rather than a dust jacket. I had read your post and thought the photos in this book looked awfully familiar. Now I know why!

Meanwhile, at the antique store, a curiously labeled "pencil holder":

Space monkey- awesome

BB

Had a good day scouring Gettysburg, of all places.

A gen-u-ine glass float with net, about 8" across.

And a souvenir brass bell from Hawaii.


I'm thinking this is more likely African in origin, but I thought it was interesting and the price was right:

Found this tapa print barkcloth tablecloth at a thrift in San Antonio yesterday for $3. Almost missed it but decided to walk thru the linens real quick on my way out. Boy am I glad I did! Just barely fits my kitchen table.

Today's find from Goodwill - thanks to Mrs. Monkey.
5-album version, copyright 1970. Marked $1.99 - but half-off today.

Found this lamp at a vintage shop in small town, Texas.

And some postcards.

On 2018-05-02 20:45, mikehooker wrote:
Found this lamp at a vintage shop in small town, Texas.

Wow! That lamp is so cool. Is each face different?
Congrats

[ Edited by: nui 'umi 'umi 2018-05-02 21:39 ]

BB

On 2018-05-02 21:37, nui 'umi 'umi wrote:

On 2018-05-02 20:45, mikehooker wrote:
Found this lamp at a vintage shop in small town, Texas.

Wow! That lamp is so cool. Is each face different?
Congrats

I concur, extremely cool!

On 2018-05-02 21:37, nui 'umi 'umi wrote:

On 2018-05-02 20:45, mikehooker wrote:
Found this lamp at a vintage shop in small town, Texas.

Wow! That lamp is so cool. Is each face different?
Congrats

All the faces are the same. I believe they're made of resin.

T

Well, obviously the faces are not all the same, unless you have two different lamps. But that (those) is (are) a great looking lamp (s).

On 2018-05-03 17:48, tikigreg wrote:
Well, obviously the faces are not all the same, unless you have two different lamps. But that (those) is (are) a great looking lamp (s).

Ha! Thanks for noticing cuz I didn’t! There are indeed two different faces as you could clearly see in the photos. I guess in my excitement I didn’t examine it closely enough. There are two of each face, not four different ones.

[ Edited by: mikehooker 2018-05-03 21:02 ]

After a couple slow weeks, things started picking up again

Pair of PNG gope boards, 3.5 and 4 feet tall

Tahitian adze

Trader Vics Suffering Bastard decanter

Hawaii Kai peanut mug and Moai aquarium piece

Upgrade cocojoe and a chiefly I didn't have

Buzzy Out!

Nice finds Buzzy!

BB

Omigosh that decanter. So jealous.

BB

Finds from the Louisville area last week.

A pair of Half-circle Ku salt & pepper shakers.

An hors d'oeuvres server / toothpick holder pineapple.

A huge set of generically tribal carved bongos. Thin skins, very sensitive to humidity.

Those bongos are the business.

BB

A couple pieces from hunting locally this afternoon:

A coco Joes' Kamehameha I.

A modern (I think Dynasty) Mai Kai mug.


T

great to see you're still finding awesome swag, buzz!!

Anyone know what this is? I found a pair of these last weekend - I think it's a toothpick holder.

They are both numbered "4466" on the bottom and also appear to have been marked in pen "1-R" or "1-B". The tiki is very similar to the Bob Lee's Islander logo tiki. Also similar to TV but not as mean looking as the one on TV menus.

T

A friend just gifted the same mini mug to me last week. It has the same numbers on the bottom - 4466.

The design is also similar to the Trader Dick's peanut Tiki mugs, although those are two toned.

Found this guy the other day, no markings, looks like Treasure Craft, but couldn't find it on OogaMooga. Any ideas?


Another good week, then a slow week...

Finally figured out that pic rotate deal!

Last of the horizontal posts

Pair of PNG hooks, 26 and 32" tall

I'm getting a pretty decent PNG collection now

Pair of Coco Joe lava plaques, blue tint versions

Couldn't remember if I had these in the blues anymore after a downsizing a few years ago. Came home after buying them and found I still had them both in blue...

16" Tongan style Hawaiian carving

On 2018-05-15 08:51, Bam Bam wrote:
Omigosh that decanter. So jealous.

It was $10!

Buzzy Out!

Today's antique store find - labelled as "Ink Well - English"
The glass portion is pretty well trashed, several chips, but the carvings are all in one piece. The tongues are carved to be a pen holder.

H

Nice find Coldwarspacemonkey, would look great mounted on a wall somehow without that glass
portion.

great piece spacemonkey....I'm jealous

One of those, and a fire bellow are on my hope to find it someday wishlist

I would left it behind because it was missing the ink lid tiki :wink:

Not!

Buzzy Out!

Thanks hiltiki and ErichTroudt - I appreciate it!

Buzzy - Thanks for showing me what it started out as. I had no idea there was a lid that went with it but it makes perfect sense. Too bad it has apparently been lost...
...But you still get all the good stuff.

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Hamo posted on Tue, Jun 5, 2018 9:38 PM

Technically not “finds” but rather gifts from my sister’s and brother-in-law’s honeymoon in Hawaii. It’s more than I probably would have brought back if I’d gone myself. I was really excited by the Waikiki Tiki book.

On 2018-06-05 21:38, Hamo wrote:
I was really excited by the Waikiki Tiki book.

Waikiki Tiki in finds? It is still in print, ya 'know!

I found a nice hei-Tiki this weekend and a lava incense holder last weekend.


Waikiki Tiki; Art, History, and Photographs.
Available now from Bess Press Hawaii.

[ Edited by: Phillip Roberts 2018-06-06 08:16 ]

[ Edited by: Phillip Roberts 2018-06-06 08:17 ]

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Hamo posted on Thu, Jun 7, 2018 9:38 PM

On 2018-06-06 08:15, Phillip Roberts wrote:
Waikiki Tiki in finds? It is still in print, ya 'know!

I know. I was excited because the “quasi-tiki” newlyweds found a book I knew about at the Bishop Museum and bought it as a gift for me.

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