Tiki Finds

One just like yours

A few finds these past few weeks. A few from the thrift stores, a few from antique stores, and two that were gifted.

A) Coconut mug marked Trader Vics USA on bottom
B) Brown Orchids of Hawaii
C) Two Black Orchids of Hawaii mugs, show some wear (a gift from the drummer in my rockabilly band)
D) Hawaii Kai mug
E) Vintage mint Lucky Tiki mug, marked Florida on back

I got more stuff to post shortly.

"Knifey thingeys"

I'm glad Buzzy knows the correct name for these carvings!

Oh yeah, and NICE HAUL BUZZ!

Buzzy, what a beautiful collection of Marquesan carvings you found! Just outstanding, congrats. Glad you could take them home.

Found five floats like this one... the glass is 10 inches across. The rope work is more even that the picture seems to make it.

All green?

On 2010-03-04 10:52, Bongo Bungalow wrote:
Found five floats like this one... the glass is 10 inches across. The rope work is more even that the picture seems to make it.

Ah no, two yellow, one blue and two green. And I've seen them at the same shop for some time, but just now bought them as I figured out how to put them to good use and so justify the cost. I don't know how to judge them as old or authentic or what. I don't know much about floats.

3 vintage, unused post cards

a) Mai Kai 'The Hawaiian Room'
b) Oahu (dist. by Max Bakser & Sons, Honolulu in Curteichcolor)
c) Mai Kai, Mystery girl serving Mystery Bowl.

$2 bucks each

estate sale," Carter collected this in 1963"
"from New Guinea"

Tiki David,

Those are nice PNG pieces, great score. Expensive?

I found a bunch of this and that over the last few weeks,

Coconut Monkey (with glasses), Coco Joes Tiki, Dancer, and Ashtray, nice little Koa wood Tiki from Hawaii, Accoutrements mug and a cool clam shell thingy.

And, I got my first Tiki Bob mug from the Bali Hai in New Orleans on ebay for $29.
Stoked!

DC

Today's finds...

A couple of albums.

Outrigger canoe model

Frank Schirman Piece "Kanoa".

Stockton Islander pineapple mug.

Nicely carved mask.

Later,

PTD

Last Week:


Yesterday, (She wiggles when tipped!):

Today:
Bike Plate

A few Coco Joe's

Lots of great finds everyone! Found me a snazzy display shelf last week. Here's a corner of it:

Just matches this week, and not many at that:

On 2010-02-28 16:26, Atomic Tiki Punk wrote:
how about some info on some of the booty!

On 2010-03-01 13:38, bigbrotiki wrote:
Buzzy, amazing Marquesan stash, weird about the doubling up of items, almost as if someone imported these from Tahiti/the Marquesas to sell them here.

I went back and looked at some log books from the traveller who brought these pieces back from the islands. He had two different long range travel yachts over the years,in which he kept incredibly detailed notes of his journeys. The first boat he mostly just went up and down the coast of Mexico, starting in the late 70's. At some point in these Mexico travels he picked up a lady named Nikki, who seemed to be his partner/lover for the rest of his travels. After meeting up with her, they headed out to the pacific islands for several years. Distinct places mentioned that I remember include: Tahiti, the Marquesas, the Pitcairns, Tonga, Fiji, and a whole mess of others I'd ahd and hadn't heard of... the common link seemed to be that his home port was always San Diego.
He first went to the Tahiti Marquesas area in 1983 and again in 1989. This is when I presume that he picked up the items. As for the doubling up, the oars were probably made and sold as a set. They have the same tiki face on each, but all the other details are different. The small matching knives were all personalized. One each to the boat guy, Edmond, and the other one to Nikki. The other two were to "Edmond and amigo Nikki"; and then one looks to be a gift for "Mike and Maria" and is personalized to them.
Stuff I didn;t buy from the guy's estate were all the logs books and all his photo books. Some of the photos he had in Tahiti showed the stone tikis. There were about ten or so of those He also had a bunch of books and pamphlets he bought along the way. there were also several 16mm films labelled from different Pacific Islands. (I was in hurry, so I didn;t check out a lot of that stuff too closely) there were also all kinds of receipts and customs stuff. way too much to look at in the time window I had.
An interesting thing included in the pile of stuff were hundreds of pages of hand written journals by Nikki. They document all the trips almost daily. Unfortunately, they are all in Spanish, and my three semesters of college Spanish experience and years of stumbling through Bajasurfspanish are not suitable enough to decipher them.
I'l go back and grab some more info this weekend, if it isn't raining again...

Buzzy Out!

Aaaah, boat people!

I got this big Islander bowl today for $30.00 and this Trader Vic Book, First Edition printed in 1946, and its autographed! for $10.00!!

Found this hei tiki...

What do you think?

On 2010-03-10 19:05, abstractiki wrote:
I got this big Islander bowl today for $30.00 and this Trader Vic Book, First Edition printed in 1946, and its autographed! for $10.00!!

SCORE!!!

birthday thrifting

and

the worst picture I have ever taken :wink:

siesta ware mugs
coco joe
tiki keychain
trader vics salt and pepper shakers
tiki playing cards

I actually passed on 2 mugs...one that was $8.99 and one that was $10.99...I plan to go back next week when they are both $2 and buy them then. Thrift stores annoy me with their "collectible" pricing.

On 2010-03-12 12:47, leleliz wrote:
tiki playing cards

Happy Birthday Liz... Are there any other markings on those playing cards? That looks very much like the logo tiki that "Ren Clark's Polynesian Village" used.
Aloha,
:tiki:

Thanks for the bday wishes TR.

About the playing cards they are still in the wrapper and marked "Complete Playing Card Deck" with some Made in China writing too.

I do not think they are vintage sadly..prollie from a party supply place

Has anyone ever seen this piece before? Its clearly not Witco and on the back in pencil is the name Vy Wilhelm in several places. It seems to be mounted on some kind of acoustic/ceiling tile or drywall. Any info would be great. Thanks.

please,anyone have any ideas/thoughts on these?

On 2010-03-13 18:56, SuperEight wrote:
Has anyone ever seen this piece before? Its clearly not Witco and on the back in pencil is the name Vy Wilhelm in several places. It seems to be mounted on some kind of acoustic/ceiling tile or drywall. Any info would be great. Thanks.

It's very cool, and it looks very Witco to me: the face, the modernist shape...I've seen some like this in a Witco catalog before, but I am in Europe and can't get to my archive right now. The dry wall is very unusual though, so if not Witco, it must have been one of those defected employees.

Found yesterday...a few usual suspects (its tough in NE Wisconsin) and 10 decent LPs

This week's stuff:

An Outrigger bucket mug:

Wood Ku tiki frying pan:

Ceramic waii hanging male Tahitian dancer:

Signed "Rena"

From Bob Brook's 7 Seas, a pair of matchcovers:

Home of World Famous rain on the roof

A menehune sitting next to a conifer?

It's the same menehune as on the pineapples and such, but the tree makes no sense. At first I thought it was part of the forest elves, but it's all Menehune:

TikiDavid: All I know about those pieces is that I can see nothing on them inspired by any sort of Pacific Art that I'm familar with... Maybe hippie folk art?

Buzzy Out!

I bet the tree is for a Christmas tidbit tray.I have never actually seen one but that's my best guess. I think it's hilarious that they actually put the Menehune on it!

On 2010-03-08 04:40, Bongo Bungalow wrote:
Lots of great finds everyone! Found me a snazzy display shelf last week. Here's a corner of it:

Cool. I've got that same shelf. Perfect for little stuff.

Way behind on many things. Yesterday's finds...

Two Stockton Islander black lined peanut mugs.

Trader Vic's skull mug.

Coconut mug with "Coco Loco" raised letters, not marked, never seen one before.

And of course, more records...I think this is my fourth or fifth Yma Sumac "Legend of the Sun Virgin".

Later,

PTD

if you ever wanna get rid of those extra sumac LP's you can always send em my way! :D

[ Edited by: tikithomas08 2010-03-15 17:36 ]

I saw a Coco Loco mug for the first time just a couple of weeks ago myself. I didn't pick it up however. Where did you find yours? The one I saw was at the antique fair in Alameda CA.

last weeks tiki finds:

plastic Kona coffee mug, large Polynesian resort style mug, a pepper shaker, a large chipped headhunter and a karate punch bucket
not shown: the small chipped toothpick holder that came with the pepper shaker. my cat thought it looked better in pieces on the floor.

On 2010-03-16 10:57, Cool Manchu wrote:
I saw a Coco Loco mug for the first time just a couple of weeks ago myself. I didn't pick it up however. Where did you find yours? The one I saw was at the antique fair in Alameda CA.

I purchased the mug at the Sacramento Antique Fair last Sunday. The lady I bought it from does Alameda the week prior, she usually sells mugs along with other glassware. I have purchase many mugs and a few Witco pieces from her over the past couple of years, both in Sacramento and Alameda. She sold me the mug for $3.00.

Interesting item, wish I could find out more about it.

PTD

Given this, it must have been the same one I saw. I purchased a Zombie Village bucket mug from her.

I saw a the Witco "World" picture for sale at Alameda, but they wanted $450 for it and it wasn't really mint. I think the word is out. :)

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On 2010-03-16 14:59, Psycho Tiki D wrote:

On 2010-03-16 10:57, Cool Manchu wrote:
I saw a Coco Loco mug for the first time just a couple of weeks ago myself. I didn't pick it up however. Where did you find yours? The one I saw was at the antique fair in Alameda CA.

I purchased the mug at the Sacramento Antique Fair last Sunday. The lady I bought it from does Alameda the week prior, she usually sells mugs along with other glassware. I have purchase many mugs and a few Witco pieces from her over the past couple of years, both in Sacramento and Alameda. She sold me the mug for $3.00.

Interesting item, wish I could find out more about it.

PTD

found these two at an antique sale !

Nice Mai-Kai finds way up north.

My big find for the week is this Jim Beam bottle from 1974.

I don't usually post how much I've paid for items, I guess because sometimes I pay too much and I don't like others to know what a fool I can be. But, what collectors are paying for items is useful information for others. So I'm gonna change my foolish ways. I paid $15 for this empty bottle.

palm ,I'm told it came from Hawaii the 60's

[ Edited by: TIKI DAVID 2010-03-18 18:22 ]

i kinda lucked out these last few weeks!

first off, a polynesian palace menu.

second, a united airlines "royal hawaiian" menu.

third, i found a black moai mug from the tikis in monterey park!

and last, but not least, something i never thought i'd find...a trader dick's skull mug!!!

Noland

Anybody know anything about this Menehune shirt? The tag is torn but what's left says: "Made Especially For...YPO by Hawaiian Incentive Services." I was thinking maybe it was made for Trader Vics.

Anybody seen one like it?

Close-up:

Any good tips for removing crayons? Apparently this was in use as a pencil can...

I haven't seen anything 'tiki' except Coco Joes and Benihana 'tiki mugs' in the thrift stores for months. Nice to find something with Trader Vic's name on it. For 50 cents I can use it as a planter (or put it back into use as a pencil can).

[ Edited by: TeeKeeMan 2010-03-19 03:49 ]

I'd never seen a Trader Vic's pineapple mug before. A very interesting find.

On 2010-03-19 08:18, LOL Tiki wrote:
I'd never seen a Trader Vic's pineapple mug before. A very interesting find.

I don't remember ever seeing one either. I have seen many of the Coconuts that pop up in my tiki mug search results on ebay etc. but not this.

Found this odd guy for $1.25. Sorta looks like a westwood, but I think not. No markings. 7" tall.

[ Edited by: Bongo Bungalow 2010-03-19 12:30 ]

On 2010-03-19 01:36, TeeKeeMan wrote:
Any good tips for removing crayons? Apparently this was in use as a pencil can...

I haven't seen anything 'tiki' except Coco Joes and Benihana 'tiki mugs' in the thrift stores for months. Nice to find something with Trader Vic's name on it. For 50 cents I can use it as a planter (or put it back into use as a pencil can).

[ Edited by: TeeKeeMan 2010-03-19 03:49 ]

Goo Gone on a paper towel seems to work, without damaging any of the finish. I would always test an area first, to make sure though.

I don't think I'd be using that as a planter. I've never seen one of them, before. Nice find.

Based on the comments here and not being able to find any information about it, no I don't think I'll be using it for a planter. That was mostly a joke. The size, it actually feels really good in my hand. I'll probably be trying it out this weekend with a drink. heh.

(thanks for the goo Gone suggestion, btw. I will try that.. The marks are only on the very bottom and one of the green leaves where the surface is more of a matte finish. The crayon marks on the smooth interior have basically just come off with mild scrubbing with a wet cloth.)

[ Edited by: TeeKeeMan 2010-03-20 01:25 ]