Tiki Finds

BigT- sent you a pm
Ex- great find

On 2014-12-08 23:10, Ragbag Comics wrote:
In fact, the same bar was used as a hostess stand long ago at the legendary Chin Tiki in Detroit;
Where did you find yours, out of curiosity? It looks like a great piece!

--Pete

it was posted on my local vintage shop's instagram.
witco pieces are pretty hard to find around here so i jumped on this even though all but one of two of the figures are missing arms.
it is 3 feet high and does not have the casters on the bottom.
i just cleaned it up as best i could and am rearranging my living room to have its haves flank the tv.

Anyone know about this Witco?

anyone know about these Witco's?

Yes Witco. Conquistador style bar w tiki stools. And seriously disturbing fabric

On 2014-12-09 20:30, hang10tiki wrote:
BigT- sent you a pm
Ex- great find

btw, I'm glad I didn't bust out the paint remover on that one! I thought there might be a Disney Polynesian logo under there some where...

Found these two albums last Saturday. Unfortunately, hole punched. I think they are library copies... but, hey, only $.75 each!

Then, found this KC Co. Hawaii mug yesterday. $.59!! YES

Hey Jon, Wheres that blu surfer mug from? Who made it?
I have that Mills Brothers album. Bought it cuz I liked the cover. Nice finds!

[ Edited by: nui 'umi 'umi 2014-12-15 18:27 ]

David- Orchids of Hawaii Surfer Boy Mug Blue
a.k.a. Orchids of Hawaii R-80

My computer was down and it was too much of a pain in the ass to post from my phone/Kindle so here's a catch up post of stuff I found since my last post(In no particular order)

7 foot by 15 foot tapa piece

It has some cool rose motifs:

3 foot by 9 foot tapa

It's got some great geometry gonig on there

3 foot by 4 foot fiji tapa

12" by 18" tapa

My grass looks way better since those photos, after those couple rainstorms rolled through. Bring it El Nino!

Plaster marwal tribute hula head:

took the dog a few nights to figure out she wasn't real:

Unfinished Guam carved wood stand thing. Guy told me it was for Pan American Airlines. He pretty much gave it to me...

even though I didn't want it. My sympathy buy.

1965 Paradise of the Pacific magazine

Leeteg ad when you open it:

didn't hook up the scanner yet so here's a blurry copy to read

A bunch more cool period ads and an article on Leeteg in it

Small big lots ETR tiki:

Pair of Hilton Hawaiian Village mugs

The price tag said "tiki" on it so I bought it:

I think it's a real tall PNG guy missing something on his head

Everthing but the head on it is PNG looking

I'm looking for a small wall hanger to fashion him a mask

I bought a pair of plastic (old halloween mask thickness)tikis with cardboard supports. They looked manufactured that way. After I brought them home, I noticed they had contact paper on the foreheads. Zaya looked at them and said she could see a logo underneath in the right light.

I peeled one off and found it was a logo for Hawaiian Surf for men aftershave

Found a piece to a waka, but didn't didn't find the rest. Paid $1 for it just on case it turned up later in the seller's mess. I checked back with the seller for 3 weeks and no luck. I had him looking for it for me but he never saw it

Then a week later another lady had a parted out waka that almost matched my piece:

Everything aligned for me on that one. Now i need the other prow piece...

Favorite find was this really detailed 20" easter island tangata manu. It was mixed in with a pile of junk asian carvings

PNG wall hanger. I think a shell fell out of the mouth.

If not, I'm still adding a shell to the mouth.

Old hand sewn hula head band

Neat shell clusters all hand stiched on

More head gear. Are white fezzes for chicks?

12" diameter plain carved maori plate/dish

A trio of peanut mugs

Two are marked and kind of rare:

Island Heritage handled mug and a pair of Chiki Tiki s+p from jamaica

4 Harvey's mugs I bought for good luck, hoping the tiki find floodgates would open after a month long drought

Moai tissue dislpenser:

Daga bamboo mug and Trader Sam's zombie mug

Trader Vic's Lady Menehune stirrer stick end:

Until I find more...
Buzzy Out!

Very nice finds Buzzy.

I picked up this shot glass recently and could not find it on O-M. Does anyone recognize it? Thanks.

Buzzy on fire

(nice buzzy peanut mug :) )

ukutiki I've never seen it before. Good find.

Buzzy that bird is on my bucket list. You are a rockin hunter. By the way I need the JPG of your pinup from Oasis this year. I need to hand one in the Buzzy Bedroom. Wendy

Hi Wendy: That's the second one of these I've found in the last few months.

Funny I never saw one in many years of hunting, and then I find two-more or less back to back...

I also have a pair of these guys:

Back when I printed this year's picture, I took one right off the top and put your name on it for you. Then I locked in the vault for safe keeping. Even if my house burns down, you'll get your picture(Unless the fire exceeds 5000 degrees, that is.)It needs to be hand delivered. Hope to see you guys soon>

Buzzy Out!

Buzzy you are one lucky dude. What about my jpeg? I need to keep the Buzzy Bedroom current. OK if you won't open the vault we'll try to make the March Marketplace. You better bring it! Wendy

PS good job on stamping the back of the peanut mug, I'm still not sure if that's a really rare find or you made it

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2014-12-20 13:01 ]

Found these today...

A copy of South Pacific. Okay, cool and all. But then, what's that in the top right?

Ren Clark's Virgin Lament mug!! Unluckily, it's been broken and glued back together on the bottom. Luckily, it's been broken and no one else bought it and it was cheap!! I suppose they're fairly rare? I see none for sale on ebay, none completed and none on ooga-mooga.

Here is the source of this shot glass for those with enquiring minds.

Guangzhou Donghan Ceramics Co., Ltd.

Drinkware Type: Mugs
Material: Ceramic
Ceramic Type: Porcelain
Certification: CE / EU, CIQ, EEC, FDA, LFGB, SGS
Feature: Eco-Friendly
Place of Origin: Guangdong, China (Mainland)
Brand Name: Bee Noble
Model Number: DH-A10906
food safety: yes
Eco-friendly: yes
quality: ABGrade
color: as you request
style: glazed
price: competetive
material: ceramic
size: as you request
design: lovely
microwave safe: yes

Found this Frankl-inspired waterfall coffee table at a thrift store just before they were gonna trash it. $13 rock bottom sale.

And some music to go with it.

On 2014-12-24 12:13, Zinctiki wrote:
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And some music to go with it.

And here's a Perez Prado video to go with the vinyl!
http://youtu.be/fGoLa3zDIRk?t=3m6s

Hey, thanks for that!

I remember first hearing this many years ago, thinking it was like Lalo Schifrin meets Desi Arnez. In a good way of course!

TheBigT your Ren Clark head is extra rare. Most were made in gloss glazes and few in the flat buff glaze. You found a treasure even if it is repaired. Congratulations. Wendy

I've been collecting Tiki stuff off and on for a couple years, mostly just a mug here and there. Since getting an actual kitchen to decorate, and a wife allowing me to do it, I've been taking the hunt a little more seriously. The following is a mug I found the other day at a local junk shop that was going out of business. I assume it's a knock-off though, since I can't find any reference anywhere to that torii gate design on the back.

Every year our local historical village has a Christmas event, at which they hold an antique and vintage sale. I picked up these two LPs for about a buck a piece.

And then I forget where I got this one from (might have been from the same historical village, from an antique/vintage sale fundraiser they did a year or two ago), but here it is...

In January or February I'm planning on ordering some more mugs (both for decor and a "mid-winter luau" we're thinking of holding :) ). Once I get those, I might post a few photos of our Enchanted Tiki Kitchen with that eye-splitting linoleum somewhere on the board here.

[ Edited by: EnchantedTikiGoth 2014-12-27 08:10 ]

Every once in a while (every few years, really) checking my local thrift pays off. Among the ususal bric-a-brac I was stunned to see two Mark Thomas Outrigger mugs side by side staring back at me. I didn't have one, and now I have two! They really are a beautiful design.

[ Edited by: ManFromT.I.K.I. 2014-12-27 13:33 ]

Found a set of four of these today!

On 2014-12-27 18:35, Tikisgrl wrote:
Found a set of four of these today!

Very cool find. Here is a press photo from the short lived TV show with cast members sharing a large cocktail. Other promotional items included S&P shakers and a cocktail pitcher and smaller mugs.

Great finds guys

Picked these up on the way back home from San Diego

10 inch Treasure Craft Drummer

Smiling Moai jeweled eyes S n P

On 2014-12-28 06:30, uncle trav wrote:

On 2014-12-27 18:35, Tikisgrl wrote:
Found a set of four of these today!

Very cool find. Here is a press photo from the short lived TV show with cast members sharing a large cocktail. Other promotional items included S&P shakers and a cocktail pitcher and smaller mugs.

wow i have two of these never realized they had lids.

[ Edited by: exquisitecorpse 2014-12-28 17:13 ]

This week's stuff:

(Slept in last week so I didn't hunt :( )

23" x 37" Scrap a Tapa

30" x 38" Scrap a Tapa II

24" tall PNG guy

17" tall (20" with the feathers/hair) PNG mermaid looking lady

Hawaiiana book with a chapter of Coco Joe's stuff:

Buzzy Out!

On 2014-12-26 21:19, danlovestikis wrote:
TheBigT your Ren Clark head is extra rare. Most were made in gloss glazes and few in the flat buff glaze. You found a treasure even if it is repaired. Congratulations. Wendy

Wow, did not know that. Thanks wendy!! Someone hit it just right on the back and knocked the bottom off. They repaired it pretty well I think. That "F" must mean "Fail!". :wink:

[ Edited by: TheBigT 2014-12-29 08:36 ]

Found these tiki bookends the other weekend at a local yard sale. They each appear to be carved from a single block of wood and just feel like they are from the 70's. I am sure they are nothing special...but they are a welcome addition to our tiki mug display.

Anyone happen to be familiar with these? I've searched the forum and around the web and have yet to uncover any bits of relevant info.

Thanks!

Never seen those bookends, but they're cool!

Finds today:

Was excited to find these Trader Vic's Big Shot glasses even in this extremely used condition.

SCORE! found this hidding behind junk...supposedly bought from an elderly collector who brought it back from papua new guinea in the 50's...stories are stories...but....def sepik region. old wood, damaged and bug damage....still probably a piece meant for sale but that doesnt make it any less awesome! 20 inches tall

Wow there sure is a lot of good things being found. This whole page is outstanding.

TheBigT you can putty that back hole with Elmer's Wood Filler. Overfill it and let it dry for several days then sand. It will stabilize the damage.

Tyber Tiki we have been collecting for around 17 years. We just now found a set of bookends like yours to add to the collection. I think you have a good find there.

Cheers and Happy New Years, Wendy

Scored a huge lot of matches
(Thanks for the lead CY)

This may take a while

I'll break it up over time so I can add
any that are missing from the appropriate posts

Next batch

Hang10,

Nice score on the matchcovers, several in there that I have not seen before, Where did you find the cache?

DC

Dusty- I thought they might catch your eye
Got a tip from CY the killer carver
It went well
Lots more to post

Here are the last of the narrow matchbooks

(Next I'll work on the big ones) :)

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hang10tiki that's a whole wonderful collection. I sure hope you find a way to display them like you do with swizzles. Congratulations, Wendy

Thanks Wendy
I have about 100 more to post
:)

Hang10,

Come on man, tell me more about the score!

What does the front of that Far East Imperial matchcover look like? That rendering on the back is one of the famous floor-to-ceiling Tikis from the bar (several of which are owned by folks on TC).

DC

Dusty- the matchbook is the seahorse restaurant
The Far East imperial is printed on the inside of the seahorse matchbook

PM sent

Jon

Ok, here come the larger 30 strike matchcovers

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5 slightly different versions
Of the Kon Tiki

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Another set of 5 with slight variations of the Lanai

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A different front with two variations of the Lanai

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Two variations of The Bahooka

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Two very close versions of the Hawaii Kai

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Two slightly different variations from A Samoan Village

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3 variations of Trader Dick's

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3 different versions

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3 versions of The Luau

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[ Edited by: hang10tiki 2015-01-04 09:44 ]

Nice matchbook score Hang10! I'm glad someone else is nerding out on collecting variations too. :wink: Did someone have to die for you to get all those? Because looking at that stash, I hoped someday when I die that all my crap will make some collector super happy! Save him/her 10-20 years of legwork and looking.

This week's stuff
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25" Oceanic Arts carving-catalog "#452 Polynesian Carved Figure"
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Reminds me of eating at Islands. Anyone know retail on this guy?

Usually expensive old book I finally found at a Swap meet price!
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Nicer and cheaper version than the one I own of this book too:
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Thor Haka Po'o Mug. Still has the Thor store Hawaii sticker on it:
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Buzzy Out!