Tiki Finds

That's a sweet bowl. Is it marked?

No, but it's speckled.

Was that one of the ones on eBay that was for sale?

No, it was a flea market find.

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Then that is a major score. In case you didn't know, chances are its from the Islander in Stockton or Trader Dicks.

I believe Cool Manchu is correct. Here is the critiki link to the Islander. There is a picture of the bowl there. http://www.critiki.com/cgi-bin/pictures.cgi?loc_id=182

Got to stop in at Kowloon Today & look what I found...

It has two of the coconut girls & the picture looks like a reproduction of the front entrance.

Bowl is made by Kowloon Products, maybe there will be more new items? Not pristine but it was fresh from the dishwasher!!!

Tikisgrl

Wow, everyone's had such amazing finds lately, people must be spring cleaning or something.
Way to go!

Hi, I'm new here and figured I'd jump in. I was at a Value Village here in Toronto and found a Mai Kai Shrunken Head mug and an Orchids of Hawaii R-93 mug. I am very happy to have found them! Cheers everyone!

Tikisgrl - nice grab at the Kowloon! We're heading there next Saturday and I'd love to grab one of those bowls. We'll see...

On 2006-03-15 09:19, DanOVillano wrote:
Hi, I'm new here and figured I'd jump in. I was at a Value Village here in Toronto and found a Mai Kai Shrunken Head mug and an Orchids of Hawaii R-93 mug. I am very happy to have found them! Cheers everyone!
Lucky man, DanOVillano!!
I had to settle for a re-ish, China-made headhunter from the Mai Kai Gift Shop during Hukilau.

But while your mug is better, I'll content myself with knowing that I had more fun getting mine!!!

I went to an antique paper show in Southern California last weekend. Here is what I came away with:

Postcard from The Aloha Room in the Heathman Hotel, Portland, Oregon

1939 postcard from the Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California

1967 postcard from a Don the Beachcomber luau, Honolulu, Hawaii

1957 postcard from a Don the Beachcomber luau, Honolulu, Hawaii

Postcard map of Hawaii

1961 Matson Cruise Lines dinner menu for "Bavarian Night"

Northwest Orient Airlines menu/postcard

1954 postcard from the Surf Bar at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii

Postcard of the Tahiti Longhouse at the Prince Kuhio Resort, Kauai, Hawaii

Speak Hawaiian - a phrasebook published by South Sea Sales, copyrighted by Scotty Guletz (AKA South Sea Scotty), Honolulu, Hawaii

1967 postcard of The Waikikian Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii

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Killer finds at that antique paper show....

The Waikikian postcard is one of my all time favorites

Killer finds at that antique paper show....

...and the best part is that paper is relatively cheap compared to other collectibles.

Yeah, I love that Waikikian postcard too. It's a real shame you can't see the "Hyperbolic Paraboloid Lobby" except in photographs nowadays.

Tikisgrl, Cool find on the Kowloon Bowl, I need to have you score one for me!!

our finds from Oahu and Maui.
cheeseburger in paradise mug purchased at the restaurant, Braddah Kimo's Mo' Bettah Gold Rum, Silver Rum, Da' Bomb Extreme Rum and MAUI Dark Rum, 2 Daga mugs from the Sheraton, a small treasurecraft-like planter and decorative cup. we also bought 20+ hawaiian shirts, nothing vintage ~ but we liked them nonetheless!

On 2006-03-15 22:58, dogbytes wrote:
We also bought 20+ hawaiian shirts, nothing vintage ~ but we liked them nonetheless!

Let's see them!

Just got this original table from the kahiki. It is one solid piece of monkey pod!

Tikiskip, Very cool Kahiki setup! great score.

the mysterious tangaroa monk?

Huzzah! The box of tiki schwag I shipped from L.A. last Monday arrived. Here are 3 items I found in antique stores. L to R: Tangaroan tiki statue, Aztec mask (mislabeled as Hawaiian), Moari tiki mask.

Here are the masks in their new habitat:

When one wants to dance the hula,
bashfulness should be left at home.

some things i found over the week:
an old tropical paint by numbers , its actually two put together
2 stone bookends
a cocojoes hula dancer
a handcarved and signed boat(from new zealand?)
a fuji en Denver OMC mug

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Found yesterday:

A Daga Hawaii drum mug from the Islander, New Smyrna Beach Florida.

A smallish Wayne Coombs carving. Says Mai Tiki on the bottom front.

A painting of a topless lass.

EDIT: Here's a post by puamana with a postcard from The Islander. Here.

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Great finds. I saw the painting yesterday. I really like that it is painted on burlap, the way Flounder paints some of his tiki mugs.
KG

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Hulakowlooni, good finds there. Do the old tropical paint by numbers have any identifying markings on them that show the company who made the kits?

It has been a fruitful week at the thrift store. Normally we only find a mug about every 6 months.

In one day my husband got the hawaiian god mug, the peanut mug and the Harvey's. I own a harvey's already but the other 2 mugs are new to my small tiki mug collection. Of course the thrfit store worker dropped the hawaiian mug and now it has a hairline crack in the handle! At least this isn't rare, since I saw it for sale new, across the street for $7.

Yesterday we got the small hawaiian statue, the god of fertility.

And today we got the small wooden slit drum that says bora bora, no stick thought. This is my fave thing we got all week since I really wanted one. With all this stuff this week, it probably means we have blown the tiki karma till at least October.

I pulled the back off to see if there were any marks....and...no marks but underneath was an original 1920's R. atkinson Fox print!! (very simular to maxfield Parrish) I guess this was my lucky day! Now i can sell it to further promote my tiki collection!!! SWEET I'm going to have to find a witco-esque new frame for my 2 paint by numbers.

I went to the Long Beach Swapmeet again. There were several new lots of brochures, magazines, and postcards, so I made a pretty decent haul. Here are my paper finds. Everything was about a dollar apiece:

:down: Kona Village Resort brochure

:down: The Marineland Restaurant postcard like the one that Tangaroa posted a few weeks back:

:down: A couple from the Coco Palms in Hawaii

:down: A couple of these awesome Kava-drinking certificates from a 1964 trip to Fiji

:down: The Korolevu Beach Hotel, Fiji

:down: A bungalo in Tahiti

:down: An ad I hadn't seen before for the Tropics Hotel in Palm Springs

:down: An article about a society-luau at the Kona Kai club on Shelter Island, San Diego.

:down: Arthur Lyman perfoms at the Bali Hai on Shelter Island:

:down: And finaly... The Half Moon Inn

Sabu

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Great paper finds, Sabu ! And that Kava-drinking certificate was issued on my exact birthday !

Amazing finds, Sabu! Congrats!

Man, Sabu, you find the good finds!

Just today I found (and bought) this Witco bar stool. It was labeled "Polynesian Totem Plant Stand"!! Decent price, too. My first Witco purchase! He's not in the best shape; somebody drilled a hole through his belly as if to make him into a fountain.

Now, some leopard-print fabric and VOL-AH!

i bought some witco. dhl destroyed it in shipping. bummer.

anyone know anything about this:

just bought it.

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Looks like the Trader Vic's Fog Cutter mug pictured in TikiQuest without the hand painting.

I went to the Long Beach Swapmeet again. There were several new lots of brochures, magazines, and postcards, so I made a pretty decent haul. Here are my paper finds. Everything was about a dollar apiece:

Great stuff, Sabu!

Wish I could've stayed in L.A. long enough to go to the Long Beach swap meet. I visited several in the San Gabriel Valley and found nothing.

Some finds from the wild. Not a lot but some interesting pieces.

L-R:

OMC moai mug (I've never seen one like this before)
Easter Island wooden statue
Jekyll & Hyde club R-1 lookalike
Quan-Quan tiki cup

REally nice haul. Does the Moai carving have anything carved on the BAck?

Does the Moai carving have anything carved on the BAck?

No carvings or markings on the back.

On 2006-03-21 10:02, Kenike wrote:

Does the Moai carving have anything carved on the BAck?

No carvings or markings on the back.

So that's one piece? The moai and the kavakava are on the same carving? That's very unusual and a heckuva find!

So that's one piece? The moai and the kavakava are on the same carving? That's very unusual and a heckuva find!

It's all one piece...I've never seen anything like it. Here's another view:

That's a nice carving Kenike!

Here are some recent finds...

A couple of small stacking cups w/ faces on both sides and one that is double height and a tall Bumatay style mug. All homemade and from the same estate sale.
Heavy samurai helmet mug from the thrift. What's the story on these? Are they old Benihana? this one has the old "Made in Japan" sticker on the bottom.

New mugs from my recent visit to the Mai-Kai... What a place!!!!

Aloha,
:tiki:

Insane homemade Bumatay mug! I'm so jealous. Great haul!

Sabu

Holy crow! Now there's a haul of mugs.
Great finds, something to aspire to.

Non-restaurant homemade mugs are a topic within themselves, ranging from the laughingly crude to the elaborate. My favorite is this one with a tiki in a robe pearched on the head of another one. This is the midsection,I'd show the rest but for some reason Shutterfly seems to have been cutting up my pictures as of late.

Here are some of my finds over the last month or so.

Vintage aloha shirt, circa 1970 or so from a vintage clothing store.

This one also around 1970. From the same shop.

A couple of Trader Vic's menus, both from the Chicago Palmer House and both from around 1957. Drink menu (left) and food menu (right). Both eBay buys.

Left to right... Moai mug from eBay (ooga-mooga says identical to a Beauce Pottery mug, but unmarked -- anyone have any idea who made it and when?). Orchids of Hawaii R-74 (eBay). Lucky Tiki from the Mai Kai gift shop.

Finally, a couple of new wall hangings from a shop in Orlando.

TikiJosh wrote:

I've got a pair of those exact cuff links. I even wore them when I got married.
I got mine on eBay so the story isn't as remotely cool as yours, but let's see,
I think I've got a photo here somewhere... Here it is, it's one of those weirdly
contrived photos that wedding photographers take, I'm supposed to be adjusting my
Dad's tie....

Your father is John Cleese? (Sorry, I know he doesn't REALLY look like John, but
it DID strike me as a BIT of a resemblance.)