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Little Coco Joe Tiki...

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Lake Surfer posted on 04/19/2004

My friend's dad recently passed away... he had a keychain collection that my friend went through and he found what he called a tiki. He gave it to me last week... sure enough, it is a Tangaroa tiki. I recently used it for inspiration for a carving. The little tiki has a metal loop on his head so I made it into a necklace. It has fake gemstones for eyes. On the bottom it reads "Lava" and "Coco Joe Hawaii..."

What might be the age of this tiki, or is it fairly new?

[ Edited by: Lake Surfer on 2004-04-18 23:20 ]

[ Edited by: Lake Surfer on 2004-04-18 23:22 ]

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Tiki Royale posted on 04/19/2004

Looks like older variety CoCo Joes to me.
Cool little piece.
Aloha,
:tiki:

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boutiki posted on 04/19/2004

Very nice! There is one without the gems at the top of page 169 of Tiki Quest. I believe it is an earlier piece, you don't see many of those.

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SugarCaddyDaddy posted on 04/19/2004

boutiki wrote:
...you don't see many of those.

I'll open up more competition to obtaining one of these be saying that about a year ago I was outbid on one of these with blue eyes, and about 6 months ago I was really bummed by getting outbid on one that had PURPLE eyes! Ugggh!

Oooooooo...purrrrrrple......

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Lake Surfer posted on 04/19/2004

Blue or Purple eyes.... Sweet!

I'm not considering selling this, (plus my friend would kill me since it was a keepsake of his father's) but SugarCaddy what was the price of the outbid if you don't mind revealing?

PM me if you'd like... or post up here.
Just curious...
Mahalo!

[ Edited by: Lake Surfer on 2004-04-19 11:25 ]

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