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Swanky posted on Sun, Jun 6, 2004 1:51 PM

Love that record! The guy up front is having a damn good time!
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TNTiki posted on Sun, Jun 6, 2004 2:05 PM

[ Edited by: TNTiki on 2004-11-06 16:35 ]
J

I think I found the mother or all giant tiki spoons and forks at the local Goodwill - these babies are 3 and a half feet long! The spoon is about the size of a shovel!
JD

great! i like the tiki cordless drill too :)
8T

I can "dig" it!
K

Hey JonPez, I like that album cover, "Man what a swingin' audience!"

I found this at an antique mall. The tip is broken off but the price was right. According to the people at the cash register the guy whose booth it came from is a missionary whose been all over the world.

more detail

Thrift store finds: mug from Hala Kahiki & Treasure Craft Cypress Gardens dish.
D

We took a little road trip from Seattle to Medford ~ did some thrift store shopping (yay no sales tax!)

6 mugs = $20.00

4 Wedgwood mugs = #3.96

Hand carved and painted plaque $16.00

Ice o matic (10 bucks) harvey’s mug , moai candle holder, coconut birdhouse = 12.79

and this beauty, I found at a yard sale in Seattle today, thousands of people must have passed by this mug at the Fremont Festival.. but now its mine all mine Outrigger mug = $4.00

FINALLY having something to post to this thread… priceless!

elicia
T

[ Edited by: TNTiki on 2004-11-06 16:37 ]
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Moki posted on Sun, Jun 20, 2004 10:59 PM

My latest tiki find.....

Found at an estate sale. Approx 30 pieces. They were pretty rough, but a little mineral oil brought them right back into great shape.

The lazy susan tower is missing the top pineapple. Just have to find another one. Anybody have an extra? :)
:drink:
D

woo hoo. look at all that wood
(insert lame joke here...)

great estate sale finds!
V

Here's my latest finds from the last couple of months. From my swap meet I got the following: A (new) mug from the Nugget $2.00, strange Asian-type OMC mug $2.00 and the ever-present Harvey's Rum Barrel at the right-price of 50 cents. I also picked up four of the hand-carved tikis from Hawaii at $10.00 for all four. Not bad considering they usually sell for around $15 to $20 on eBay apiece. The best thing is the Toby Designs Mug I found hanging out with the other cups and mugs at the Salvation Army for 25 cents. Hail Tiki, Hooray!!!

[ Edited by: vegastikidude on 2004-06-27 21:43 ]
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Unopened bottle of Tahiti Joes drink mix. I go to estate and garage sales all the time and this is the only thing I've found in quite awhile.
Mahalo,
Al
F

I went to an Estate sale up the hill from me & found 3 HIP/Coco Joe's tikis for 5 bucks total. I'm going to have to get my scanner out of storage soon so I can post pictures again.

All of the Tikis were "Lava" black. 2 were HIP, the first was a 4" tall Ku-ish statue sticking out his tongue He looks like the one on the right in this picture, only with Turquoise colored eyes:

The second HIP is a Tiki-head pendant with a sort of African looking head dress/hat, also with Turquoise colored eyes.

The 3rd is a Coco Joe's neutered Tangaroa pendant with some sort of artificial pearls for eyes. He's much heavier than the other 2, possibly he's "Real" Hapa Lava?
B

KC Tiki beautiful stuff. What is the big Bug in the Cypress Gardens Dish? Looks wierd. Do you have a bigger picture?
K

On 2004-06-28 12:34, Benzart wrote:
KC Tiki beautiful stuff. What is the big Bug in the Cypress Gardens Dish?

It's a little ceramic plaque that says "Cypress Gardens".
B

Looks neat, thanks
M

Got these fabulous salt and pepper shakers for 50 cents at an unadvertised estate sale:

Also got a Hamilton Pacer Watch for $1 too!!!
T

[ Edited by: TNTiki on 2004-11-06 16:46 ]
M

they are still in soft & supple condition....
TDH

well after a long dry spell i finally got a few decent finds to post.

there are two sets of treasure craft shakers, a weird set of plastic and aluminum shakers, a cool coco joes tiki with a flower in the base, a 4-5 inch float and a vintage float that is about 14 inches in diameter.
F

On 2004-06-30 11:51, the drunken hat wrote:
well after a long dry spell i finally got a few decent finds to post.

there are two sets of treasure craft shakers, a weird set of plastic and aluminum shakers, a cool coco joes tiki with a flower in the base, a 4-5 inch float and a vintage float that is about 14 inches in diameter.

I made the pictures bigger (you change the 3rd from last digit a "6").
JD

On 2004-06-30 11:51, the drunken hat wrote:
well after a long dry spell i finally got a few decent finds to post.

there are two sets of treasure craft shakers,

daaaammnn hat, i got a set of the tiki treasure craft shakers about amonth ago too! but i think mine were never used coz the tag was still on it... j$

[ Edited by: Johnny Dollar on 2004-06-30 12:50 ]
D

argh. i got the S&Ps last month, but no base!

upside down, they look like owls. i was going to put them back, muttering "damned those Owl Centralites".. then i turned 'em over..viola. tiki!

nice finds. esp that float!

elicia
T

I just got these five wood tiki poles; I don't know quite what sort of wood they are. The four taller ones are 43" and weigh about 25 lbs.

Yeah, I know they are just the garden variety tiki, but they do dress up a few places rather nicely.
D

Tikijackalope-great idea to use them on the fireplace-very inspiring!!!
A

Do you think there is a machine somewhere that you put in a long piece of wood and the wood comes out with tiki carved on it?
JD

On 2004-07-04 08:51, atomictonytiki wrote:
Do you think there is a machine somewhere that you put in a long piece of wood and the wood comes out with tiki carved on it?

looks kind of like this bookend i found:

GECKO has the same one too. he sez it's machine carved. as you say, probably a automatic "wood in one side, tiki out the other side" machine...
M

Where can one purchase such a machine???!!!

Matt
JD

"TIKI-MATIC 2000" :)
M

Wouldn't that be da bomb!!
K

looks kind of like this bookend i found:

GECKO has the same one too. he sez it's machine carved. as you say, probably a automatic "wood in one side, tiki out the other side" machine...

I have one of those as well...hard to believe a machine could carve this. They must be cleaned-up by hand after being machined.
B

I have an Old Sears Router/Duplicator that will duplicate in 3-D, any carving you put into it. However it only produces rough blanks and I haven't gotten it to work yet. One of these days if i can get ti to work I'll sell benzart blanks.?
JD

On 2004-07-07 20:28, kingslod wrote:

looks kind of like this bookend i found:

GECKO has the same one too. he sez it's machine carved. as you say, probably a automatic "wood in one side, tiki out the other side" machine...

I have one of those as well...hard to believe a machine could carve this. They must be cleaned-up by hand after being machined.

interesting... compare and

you can see how the overall design was worked out, but the longer one must have been from a longer blank, so they added the "XX' design... i must agree with kingslod's theory...

although now comparing them side by side, they are slightly different designs... sigh...

[ Edited by: Johnny Dollar on 2004-07-08 06:35 ]
JD

oops

[ Edited by: Johnny Dollar on 2004-07-08 06:35 ]
F

I just got a set of 4 of these Paul Marshall mugs from a friend's estate sale after his Mom died. She knew I liked Tiki & wanted me to have'em:
K
Kono posted on Sat, Jul 10, 2004 8:59 PM

I'd taken a break from serious thrifting and antiquing but I did a little bit of hunting the past week and a half and found:

A two foot tall moai torch lamp. He's made of fiberglass or something similar and he has a metal screw top that opens to a container that holds your torch oil. I first spotted him months ago but he was finally marked to half off. He's not vintage btw but he was in an antique store. Also got an old polynesian painting with some guys in outrigger canoes and a hula wahine in a grass skirt. The natives are dancing restless around a fire in the background.

A Les Baxter and two Esquivels in near mint condition at a sweet price. The mug looks just like Cool Manchu's "The Tikis" mug that he put on ebay recently but it has no markings. Got it real cheap cuz it's got a ding in the back. Displays nice though.

EDIT: I forgot, I also got a tablet of stationery from the Mai Kai. There's a little scene from the restaurant on the bottom of each page.

[ Edited by: Kono on 2004-07-11 14:06 ]
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On 2004-07-06 10:22, mattfink wrote:
Where can one purchase such a machine???!!!

Matt

In the Phillipines! These guys churn out tons of this stuff!
JD

On 2004-07-10 21:14, FreakBear wrote:

On 2004-07-06 10:22, mattfink wrote:
Where can one purchase such a machine???!!!

Matt

In the Phillipines! These guys churn out tons of this stuff!

mega supreme props to the first person who posts pictures or more info on phillipine tiki carving machines!!! my research brought up nothing...
V

I got by someone who was going to trash it 2 framed pictures from tahiti (Tahoa island and Bora Bora), with no dates but the lady told me it was from the 40's. the pictures are signed Pierre Landry.
TR

Great pictures Virani,
They're beautiful.
Aloha,
:tiki:
UJ

is that a picture of Sabu?!
T

Johnny Dollar wrote:

mega supreme props to the first person who posts pictures or more info on phillipine tiki carving machines!!! my research brought up nothing...

Labor is cheap enough in the Philippines that a manufacturer might not feel the need for the cost and maintanance of such a machine. I've always thought of such economies as machines.
T

Avert your eyes or turn off the color on your monitor. These are things I got in the bulk purchases that netted me the lamps from Aloha in Springfield MO.

I think I'll like these once they are repainted. The palm wood masks are 5', the free-standing palm wood tiki is 4'10". I think all three are Orchids of Hawaii. When I see big masks with eye and mouth openings, I think about red backlighting and dry ice:

The 3' wood masks are probably also Orchids of Hawaii. Check out the nose on the one in the middle. The other one is Philippine.

Some other Philippine stuff:

I got the unfortunately painted Witco boy and girl discussed elsewhere ( http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic=1295&forum=5&start=0 ) as well as these masks. The masks are 2" thick surface burned wood with lots of nice texture. Would anyone know who made them?:

Fiberglass masks, probably 1980's Orchids of Hawaii:

I also got the pair of much-derided 7"6" fiberglass Orchids of Hawaii totems. http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=9415&forum=1&2 The fiberglass stuff should be good trading material the next time my local antique dealers come up with something I want from a miniature golf course.

Hey, I got a van full of grass:

The wood tikis I posted previously ( http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic=1099&forum=5&start=780 ) and the Witco bull and Western scene ( http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=5588&forum=6&start=60 ) also came from Aloha. I must confess to an act of field collecting as I bought and removed the Witcos before they closed. Given their ongoing painting of things, I felt justified.
D

tikijackalope: yow! you bought out the whole darned place.. nice finds... please please take pics when you get them up in your home!
UJ

yeah it's been awhile since I posted on this thread, a now for the goodies I've got :)

First off: Swizzle sticks ($1.00) from an estate sale. Some from Trader Vics, Kahala Hilton, Hale Koa hotel, The Playboy, and more plus weird riffles.

Next: Two Tiki candles, $2.00 each (i think they are resin or plastic with a candle insert) and an empty bottle of Pisco shaped like a Moai $5.00. Also estate sale finds.

Then: The "wee-ones". A CoCo Joes lava hula gal $2.00, Three Ports o'Call salt shakers (I couldn't leave the third wheel alone could I?)$5 each but on sale so I got all three for $5.95 and an unknown tiki (I got for a few cents at a thrift store) that might be a salt shaker or a toothpick holder. He only has one small hole in the top and a hole and a hole without a plug on the bottom. He reads "Hawaiian War Gods copywrite 1967. Zenith (unreadable) Hanaki HI and a code (A67 5 Japan)??"

Also: Sharks teeth a couple cents at a local thrift store, a bottle of sand from Galveston (because I used to vacation there) a few cents more, and a beautiful pineapple ash tray from Treasure Craft, also a few cents.

And Finnaly: Two beautiful cobalt blue mugs and volcano bowl IT"S FREEKIN' HUGE! from oriental trader $8 for the three (and VERY well packaged i might add)

And those are my finds... if anyone has any infor on some of those rare items please speak up!


-one man aspiring to be everyone’s favorite unkle.
http://www.unklejohn.com

[ Edited by: Unkle John on 2004-07-14 21:13 ]
K

Unkle John you suck!!! That's some great stuff...especially those Ports O Call shakers and that Moai bottle. Those shakers are probably from the Ports O Call that used to be in Dallas. I haven't found crap all summer. BTW when's your Luau?
UJ

On 2004-07-14 21:44, Juno wrote:
Unkle John you suck!!! That's some great stuff...especially those Ports O Call shakers and that Moai bottle. Those shakers are probably from the Ports O Call that used to be in Dallas. I haven't found crap all summer. BTW when's your Luau?

I found ALL of those items (sans Oriental Trader)in Waxahachie. My turf buddy-boy :) . I have a feeling the shakers are from Dallas. As for the Luau.. maybe next year (if I'm still living here.. long story to get into here, email me if you are curious. I have a pair of eyes from my job that are spying on me). I need to save up for a cement mixer to finnish the fire pit or cut it down and take it with me. My friend who owns his is moving to Colorado to be with his gal, and is taking it with him. I'm not sure, just going with the wind right now.

Keep checking my message board. I'm keeping a secret.. it maybe revieled next week.


-one man aspiring to be everyone’s favorite unkle.
http://www.unklejohn.com

[ Edited by: Unkle John on 2004-07-15 19:45 ]
FZ

On 2004-07-13 04:47, tikijackalope wrote:

I found one of the mask on the left last year. Mine is not painted, but someone took a black marker to the horns & put a diamond shape on the forehead. Other than that, it has a nice wood finish.

-Z

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