Tiki Finds

A few recent finds... nothing too special.

I got lucky with an estate auction. 24" Moai with shell inlaid eyes and rongorongo script on his back, a club(?) from Easter Island with rongorongo script, a rongorongo tablet, a dancing paddle from Easter Island with feathers attached to it, 3 shrunken heads from Ecuador, a small Aboriginal painted saw fish bill, and a trio of Maori tourist weapons.

What I missed out on was a gorgeous carved RongoRongo bowl from Easter Island. This thing was about 30" beak to beak:

What a great score Cavemoai. I'm a sucker for anything from Easter Island and get excited when i find just one piece but to get that many different ones in one haul is amazing. It's a shame you missed out on the bowl, that thing is awesome. Do you know how much it sold for?

On 2018-11-05 17:22, swizzle wrote:
What a great score Cavemoai. I'm a sucker for anything from Easter Island and get excited when i find just one piece but to get that many different ones in one haul is amazing. It's a shame you missed out on the bowl, that thing is awesome. Do you know how much it sold for?

Swiz,

It sold for way too cheap, $75. I meant to put another bid in, but forgot all about it until it was too late.

Damn! That converts to about $110AUS but i'd happily pay that much (and more) for something like that. Not the type of thing that you're likely to see very often. If at all.

Spent the day scouring the Minneapolis/St. Paul area yesterday, and scored a small Mainlander mug, an Otagiri Moai mug, and a bottle of my favorite pastis (which I'm enjoying right now). What was unusual, was that every place we went to had mugs, masks, and other Poly-pop paraphernalia, so people must be unloading their collections, because I usually come up dry.

In the cold and wet Autumn here in The Netherlands I get around collecting stuff for my Bora Bora hut. Will not go up until spring. Here the last caches:
A set of 2 glass fishing floats that smell like sh*t (chain smoker previous owner)

A really tiny fishing float that I friend brought me from Oslo (Norway)

A fishing float lamp

A wooden mask (probably African but will do the trick) and 2 interesting wooden mask, those 2 are creepy and they have goats hair and 1 actually real goat teeth attach to it. They called Tschäggättä and they are for carnival. They will fit perfect with the little voodoo corner I want to create in the bar.

Trader Vic’s Hawaii

Kafe La Te mug

PS
Anyone have this menu for sale?

Black Friday Goodwill 1/2 price
Good day to find this
$7.50

Orange oil on
Cleaned up well
Next to remove the white paint off the eyes and umbilicus

Couple of finds from Saturday, a couple of towns over.

5-inch glass float, badly in need of a new tie job. The old rope is pretty brittle. Also a CocoJoe's lava Lono, a little worse for wear.

Normally I don't go in for Disney, but I made an exception for this pair of mugs, especially at less than a buck each!

PNG shield

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

[ Edited by: hang10tiki 2019-01-03 09:02 ]

25 Days with no finds? You are not trying.

Some pearl diver glasses. Some Salt and pepper shakers, A Disney bowl.

But I'm really curious about the Moai glasses. They say "Cloud Kahuna."

Anyone recognize them?

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

[ Edited by: Phillip Roberts 2019-01-21 08:46 ]

Good day for paper yesterday!

DC

Here's some of the choice stuff I've picked up over the last month.

A United Airlines Ku from and estate sale. A Cook Islands god, about 40" tall, from an antique store. A Pineapple mug from Trader Vic's Honolulu. A small (18"X30") piece of tapa cloth from a thrift store.

Some finds from this afternoon!

Pair of wooden Ku figurines, A small yellow glass float in a drawstring net, and an Orchids R-3 (unfortunately missing his eye rhinestones).

(unfortunately missing his eye rhinestones)

You can buy those at a craft store FYI.

Shown in my shopping cart at Goodwill: A Vicious mug by Benzart, Tiki Boy by Joe Vitale, Exotiki ny Doug Horne, Radar Vic, and Cheeseburger in Paradise Maui all manufactured by Tiki Farm. A Tussler by THOR. The big guy is a Waka Taua bowl by Gecko! The whole lot set me back a whopping $6.13.

[ Edited by: Cavemoai 2019-01-30 07:40 ]

New Zealand tiki door knocker:

nice knocker FranNL.
Wow! Cavemoai-instant collection.
Cheers

On 2019-01-28 07:01, tikiskip wrote:
(unfortunately missing his eye rhinestones)

You can buy those at a craft store FYI.

I thought of that - looks like the magic number is 3mm. Tiny. I'll have to check out the nearby Michael's this weekend and see what they have in stock.

Cavemoai what an amazing find.

FranNL I've never seen one of those before. Wonderful.

Wendy

Broke the dry spell

Nice post card with some tiki action.
"Paradise Park, fifteen acres of lush, green atmosphere in Manoa, Valley of the Rainbows. Fragrant flowers, orchids, gardens, streams, and rare and colorful birds."
Movie Supply of Honolulu, Hawaii.

Been a lot of rain and cold lately, but I still made it out here and there and grabbed a few things

30" PNG wall hanger

small maori tiki

Set of 60's Maori books

About a 6 foot tall png shield

Rattan Bar

More random wood

Cast resin turtle tiki piece

matchbooks

tiki trio bucket mug

Pile of Matson Menus. Two in front are from late 40's

Couple slabs of barkcloth fabric

Historical Hawaiian photo prints in some koa wood frames

Buzzy out!

Wow, so much good stuff! Love Hang 10's box & Buzzy's tapa print the most of the most recents.

You find such amazing stuff Buzzy. I tend to do okay here in Aus. but it's nothing like the variety of things you come across.

Bam- thanks

Buzz- wow
Like the 2 Moai carvings
And that 6 ft PNG shield
(did you pull that off the wall at the catamaran?)
:)

Trade Winds Matchbook - drooool

Buzzy strikes again - what a haul!

So there's this little thrift store in town that I pass by on my evening walks. Normally there's not much of interest on display - maybe some glassware or old appliances - but last night I noticed this marvelous Haeger clamshell bowl sitting in the shop window:

It is 14 inches from end-to-end and holds 40oz easily! I can't wait for the opportunity to stack it high with crushed ice and use it as a communal bowl. If anyone has some insight on this bowl I would be grateful. Cursory research has turned up next to nothing on this design or model number, So I can only guess at its age by the signs of wear.

After I grabbed the shell bowl I took another sweep of the window display, and caught sight of what looked like pineapple husk.

If I am correct, this is a relatively new boutique bowl, "life cast" from an actual pineapple. Not bad for $1.

On 2019-02-01 10:48, Bam Bam wrote:

On 2019-01-28 07:01, tikiskip wrote:
(unfortunately missing his eye rhinestones)

You can buy those at a craft store FYI.

I thought of that - looks like the magic number is 3mm. Tiny. I'll have to check out the nearby Michael's this weekend and see what they have in stock.

Update: the cornea transplant was a success.

Checked this off my list

Nice double Jon. Glad someone is finding something.
My bad Jon- i thought that it was a double old fashioned.

[ Edited by: nui 'umi 'umi 2019-03-17 20:50 ]

All good Bruddah
It be a lil tiny glass
:)

Two Hawaiian Discovery
Hawaii collection pieces
Only one has a tag
But both numbered

Nice, something else to keep an eye out for. Loving the grin on Tahiti Man.

Today's haul after scouring two big antique malls.

Asked a bookseller if he had anything on Oceania in his stall, and this is what he came up with: "Easter Island - The Mystery Solved." A pictorial follow-up by Thor Heyerdahl from the late 80s on Easter Island. Some great plates.

Red, likely decorative glass float. About 4 inches.

A pair of rather sketchy Ku(?) shakers orphaned from their base.

Orchids R-93 in nice shape.

Tall, possibly late 50's version of the Geisha Room mug made by Otagiri for the Hawaiian Cottage in Merchantville (now Cherry Hill) NJ. The domed bottom makes this a devil to clean out the years of accumulated gunk...

Great finds everyone... I picked up a pair similar to Hang10 not long ago..

BH- nice ones

Nutha good day

Thanks Hang10... nice addition to you as well.

Here is the label on one, made in Palau

And a few other finds

A pair of Trader Vics coconuts...

An odd scrimshaw piece, small vase from Hawaiian medical center and a pretty common mask...

A few mugs

And these masks

Cheers and happy hunting!

Picked from a small collection of matchbooks today.

I picked up this Otagiri Moai today. It is very similar to the Mark Thomas Outrigger (if not exact) except it has no restaurant name on it. Also instead of an OMC label it is stamped on the bottom in black ink IMPORT BY OTAGIRI CO. Has anyone seen this mug before?

Hello all-it's been awhile-still collecting and finding some cool things.

This one is puzzling to say the least-I bought some vintage paper placemats and this one was with them.

I cannot find anything anywhere about the Hotel Claremont in Oakland/Berkeley California pertaining to anything Tiki at all?

Then there is this-

Anyone know of any Tiki connection?

Mahalo,

Psycho Tiki D

[ Edited by: Psycho Tiki D 2019-04-14 11:15 ]

On 2019-04-14 11:14, Psycho Tiki D wrote:
Hello all-it's been awhile-still collecting and finding some cool things.

This one is puzzling to say the least-I bought some vintage paper placemats and this one was with them.

I cannot find anything anywhere about the Hotel Claremont in Oakland/Berkeley California pertaining to anything Tiki at all?

Then there is this-

Anyone know of any Tiki connection?

Mahalo,

Psycho Tiki D

[ Edited by: Psycho Tiki D 2019-04-14 11:15 ]

Nice PTD. Found this on the Bay OGR

Nice catch there OGR-someone else mentioned to me evidence they had Luaus there, so that makes sense. Wonder if they just served Luau food or if they had decorations and maybe even a show-now I will have to look through my matchbooks to see if I missed this one somehow-Thanks!

PTD, Also found this....The Terrace Lounge, although I suspect this is earlier than the Luau time period...this was 1950. OGR

New stuff

41" x 30" framed piece of tapa

Got turtles on it

Maori box

Coco joe, Disney, and unknown resin tiki

Tag on unknown tiki

Decanter and perfume bottle

pair of OMC Moai mugs

Maori wood painting

1940 Family Circle Hawaii issue

Matchbooks

Don's coasters

Buzzy Out!

I just got on my mail box this 2 little books:
-Know your Maori Carving by Glen Pownall printed in 1982 New Zealand.
-Oceanic Art by Alberto Cesare Ambesi for Cameo, 1970 printed in Italy.
Both with great pictures, here few highlights:

Recent op-shop find.