Tiki Finds

oh my god tiki1410 !!!!! Look at your ku carving and then goto my auction for a vintage pair of tiki bases and you will see they are the same!!!! I never knew where they came from but apparently some one back in the day made a mold of a similiar tiki and cast them in plaster for lamps!! ..Interested in a pair of lamp bases to match your tiki find??

Finally, I have a camera!!! Since I can now show what I found here is my Tiki Summer - to Winter:

Found these in Maine:

Goodwill, Salvation Army and Various Flea Markets in New England:

Not all Tiki's I know but a fun mix in any case...

Tikisgrl, You might already know about it, but there's a great little antique store right on Middle St. in Downtown Lowell who always keeps a few tiki items on his shelves! (it's right near the bar, the Old Court)

Check it out if you haven't!

my finds in Sweden from the Tiki Room

Sweet menu Trevor. I really love the inside pages with the various drinks (from the other thread).

My finds for Saturday!

The Tiki's Mug ($2), Harvey's barrel ($1) mug and Cocojoes Lono Statue ($1)

Polynesian Restaurant Redondo Beach, Playboy Club Miami (bunny on other side), Princess Kaiulani (Sheraton) Hotel, Trader Vics Beverly Hills, Funny Hawaii (see next picture). All for $1.00

Ui Maikai Hawaiian shirt $2.50

does any one know anything about UNITED AIR LINES traval posters? scored one yesterday ,mounted and framed "UNITED AIR LINES HAWAII" it has a painting of a girl in a long dress holding a couple leis.the artist name was STAN GALLI.i was told it was from about the mid 60's thanks.

Vancouver's Hawaiian Village mug... found in Pickering, Ontario! Price was under a buck.

This is probably a dumb question but: Is this a pu pu platter platter? I mean, it looks like one but where does the hibachi go? You can remove the pineapple and put a hibachi there but then where do I stick the pineapple? I ask you WHERE can I shove the pineapple while I'm having pu pu?

Anyway, Mom got it for $6 and I got it free.

Pappy, Pu-Pus are just nibbly dibblies, some places have the hibachi & some don't. What you have there looks like a lazy susan-based Pu-Pu tray, hibachiless-style.

Thanks!

Pappythesailor, B.A.

the pineapple is meant to have toothpicks placed in the holes, so your guests can pull them out and spear the horse au derves.

Chisel Slinger, MAHALO!

I have a pineapple filled with holes, and I've been wondering what they were for. That's been driving me nuts for about a year, and at last the mystery is solved.

ACTUALLY it is my belief that the pupus themselves, skewered onto the toothpicks, were then stuck into the holes to present the tidbits, to be picked off and put into the mouth. This came from skewering real pineapples first as part of Luau table presentations, of course.
I have a vintage monkeypod Tiki screwed on a leaf shaped platter with toothpick holes in his head, and between his teeth. He looks like an African nail fetish when when made up with pupus.

A couple of things I found today:

A mug from the Hawaiian Inn.

A wooden bowl with tiki. It's a big bowl, about a foot by foot and a half. I'll probably sand it down and refinish it.

A friend of mine was going through some old boxes containing papers, books and other assorted stuff from his grandfather who used to live in Hawaii. He sent me an amazing piece of tapa cloth thats about 5' square and and old menu from the Kau Kau Korner. In addition, there were these two tasty items...

A beautiful pin-up doll with her uke...

and this very interesting print of abstract tiki faces. It looks to be silkscreened...

Aloha,
:tiki:

[ Edited by: Tiki Royale 2005-12-12 22:20 ]

I got a Molokai Mule mug the other day for $5. Not exactly a great steal, but I've seen other local dealers selling these for as much as $14. In fact, there's another local shop selling regular old Orchids mugs, nothing special for $20 apiece. Damn! I'd buy 'em too, if they weren't so much.

As usual its weird when I collect. Last time I scored some Bob's in the wild then had our baby 2 days later. Anyway, I didn't think there would be much out there in NO as my regular haunts aren't around but I scored these in one day:

Two of the mugs are those Johnny Sens which made for some interesting reading for research purposes.

Then I scored on this ebay auction for six Bali Hai Bob's for $88 with shipping $100. These are in great condition except that one was broken and reglued. I've promised some of these to individuals here if I came across Bob's for cheap. I have a tendency to do that. Try to spread the tiki wealth. Anyway, when I got them in last night 2 didn't make the journey:

I still shouldn't complain some glue and they will be smiling again. It's kinda like how we are down here smiling but broken.

410 those are wonderful finds! I hope everything is fixed up and back with a smile inside and out in no time!

Here's my smile for you, with a couple of recent e-bay finds(tree & fez), I hope it rubs off on a few folks today!

That fez is HELLA cool!

I found these at salvation army.
A Trader dicks for
$1.00
and 75 cents for the original kona coffee mill plastic tiki.
And there is still a daga molokai mule mug there. I didn't grab.

picture provided by j$.

haven't posted in a while.. seems i get my finds all at once!
a set of 3 plastic nesting bowls, Kon Tiki S&P, Treasurecraft Menehune, Hawaii Pennant

from an Estate Sale ~
giant velvet painting, 27 x 32

it's signed by "Walker" anyone have any info on the artist??

other things i got:
Fantastic Shriner Tiki Shirt, cotton barkcloth

WalMart-ish vest with 30+ shriner pins.. ten bucks!

shriner shirt
pocket detail



pins:

coco joes
the rest of the Shriner & assorted pins can be seen Yahoo Photo Album ~ i'd be happy to trade pins or the coco joes for other stuff.. just let me know!

Great finds Dogbytes, i especially like the first shirt.

Yesterday was a good day... Mele Kalikimaka.

Trader Vic's Hawaii "Peeping Tom" mug and a small Lattitude 20 barrel.
I've never seen the small barrels... anyone have any info?

And this sweet Hawaiian trophy... The plaque is missing so I don't know what its from. There was also something on the little flat part that is now missing. Might be a good spot for a CoCo Joe.

Aloha,
:tiki:

Had a good weekend... First Two are from Honolulu but not really!

Just a Sun God

Louie B

Coco Joe Moai excuse the lousy photo but he was really hard to photograph!!

dang. some really good finds. I actually located something in a local thrift shop. I found a Les Baxter LP, The Primitive and the Passionate for $3. All the songs are new to me, none made it to the Exotic Moods of Les Baxter collection.

On 2005-12-19 21:52, TikiJosh wrote:
dang. some really good finds. I actually located something in a local thrift shop. I found a Les Baxter LP, The Primitive and the Passionate for $3. All the songs are new to me, none made it to the Exotic Moods of Les Baxter collection.

that's the one.

The Hanukkah guy visited me a little early... He brought me some cool presents!

He seems to be made of wood but he is not marked in any way

This one is wood for sure

Can't wait to see what everyone got from Santa etc.

Tikisgrl

[i]On 2005-12-25 10:40, Tikisgrl wrote:
Can't wait to see what everyone got from Santa etc.

I got a rock.

Nice finds! I gotta hit the antique and junk shops more...

A Rock? It seems like Santa was busy in his workshop with paint & bamboo... I thought that Maybe Santa had brought you a new baby but I noticed that you are still waiting. Maybe the Rock is a Tiki face in a strange place did you look at it really hard or maybe squint a little? Maybe the rock is really Coal and if you apply pressure it will become a diamond by next year?

Tikisgrl

Found some pretty good stuff over the last two months.

Thrift Stores
1 Mint condition, vintage Mr. Bali Hai mug, complete with lid!
1 Unmarked, ceramic handled cup (I found another almost like it, but made of plastic)
2 Wooden tiki, handled cups. There were paper labels on these cups, but were removed.
3 Black Coco Joe figurines, of different sizes and designs.
1 Unmarked, 15" hand-carved, wooden tiki statue.

Ebay
1 Set of Treasure Craft pineapple salt/pepper shakers
1 Orchids Scorpion bowl with matte finish
1 Harvey's black Sneaky Tiki cup

Roadtripping
2 Enchanted Tiki Room mugs, one green and one purple (picked up at Disneyland)
1 Tiki Farm-made, Kon Tiki mug (picked up at the Kon Tiki, Tuscon)

This concave-bottom Mr. Bali Hai mug is in almost mint condition, just some wear on the nose-bone

Just like to show you this mgazine i got from my sis this x-mas.
It´s from 1948!

Part 1

Part 2

Makutiki - Those are beautiful covers! Someone should make full-size posters out of those if they haven't already.

Sabu

While browsing through the paper ephemera collection at our local antique mall, I found a whole folder full of illustrations from articles about Polynesia and Australia that'd been torn out of periodicals and books. I bought the ones I liked best (for dirt cheap, I might add), scanned them, and put them up on this webpage called Vintage Oceania.

Here are smaller versions of 2 of the images on my website. I just love the Moais in the engraving of the "Idol Festival in Easter Island", the artist got their faces completely wrong. In fact, the 3rd one from the right looks like a caricature of a real person! Maybe it was the editor of Harper's Weekly where this illustration appeared back in 1873...:D

I also dig this engraving of Tahitian maidens reclining on the beach. This came from an 1881 article called "The Last King of Tahiti" that was written by Lady Constance Gordon Cumming, a famous travel writer of the 19th century. She was quite an accomplished artist, but this engraving doesn't appear to have been done by her.

Very interesting stuff. I hope to find more of it in the near future.

Happy New Year!

Weblog: Eye of the Goof

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[ Edited by: MrBaliHai 2006-01-02 18:38 ]

[ Edited by: MrBaliHai 2006-01-03 07:05 ]

That is funny! But wouldent it bee more natural for the moais to look like that?
They did have long ears on the island, but the rest of the moai design is totally cartoon!

Here are another mag I found.
From 1964. Some tourist pics inside but no tikis...

...the rest of the moai design is totally cartoon!

Actually, the more I look at that 3rd Moai, the more I'm convinced it's Bob Hope! He was probably alive back in 1873...:D

I had to look that up...
he wsent born until 1903... but...his father whas a stonemason!

Isnt that a guy hwo carvs stone?
:D

Good finds today!

Tahatis LP with DOn the Beachcomber ad on the back. Otagari mug from the Hawaiian Room Emerson Hotel in Baltimore and the United Airlines tiki fountain with the catch basin. $4, $8 and $65 respectively.

Anyone know how I can take the tube in him and make him into a fountain again?

On 2006-01-02 18:55, Swanky wrote:
Anyone know how I can take the tube in him and make him into a fountain again?

You can get a small fountain pump and the tubing at any Lowes store. Home Depot probably sells the pumps too. I bought a pump for my fountain at Lowes. They usually carry them in the outdoor gardening portion of the store.

any large craft supply store link michaels crafts or hobby lobby sells all types of pumps for fountains....probably have more types in stock than a major hardware store chain....check out larger garden shops too.....or your local pet shop that sells fish tank supplies....

Wow Swanky what a super swell find, I love all of the United Airlines tiki promotional goodies...gauging from the size of how big that bad boy looks next to the mug, I bet it might make a really cool cocktail fountain if you rigged it right. You Lucky Duck!!!

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More fun stuff found:

2nd picture is not Tiki but it is Orchids of Hawaii & it made me smile

Love those Menehunes

& a mug:

But best of all, inappropriately labeled Totem Tea Pot - Note first picture is original price. No mugs to go with it though:

Made a tall guy reach over a big stack of junk, but I think it was worth it!!

i didn't exactly find these at a thrift store, but i am proud to own these great pieces by tiki tony. "death of pierre riviera" and the mug it inspired, fatutu artist proof #002.

Very cool picture above, and very cool fountain on the previous page too, WOW!

On 2006-01-03 16:48, Tikisgrl wrote:
More fun stuff found:

But best of all, inappropriately labeled Totem Tea Pot - Note first picture is original price. No mugs to go with it though:

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On 2006-01-04 20:45, filslash wrote:

...It's in BOT on page 157 in various incarnations...

I wish! Slight correction here, fil, that'll be the TQ (as in Tiki Quest), not the BOT, I juss got the Westwood set.

[ Edited by: filslash 2008-09-15 15:31 ]

On 2005-12-08 19:08, chisel slinger wrote:
the pineapple is meant to have toothpicks placed in the holes, so your guests can pull them out and spear the horse au derves.

At the Value Village in University Place, WA I found one of the pineapple toothpick holders. In relatively good shape. I was so suprised to see one since they were just mentioned within the last month. Super cool. No other good finds in the 6 thrift stores from the Renton area.