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Help! Rare Trader Vics Piece? Any ideas?

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TR Tiki Royale Member The Aloha Room in Beautiful Belmont, CA! Joined: Dec 06, 2002 Posts: 891	TR Tiki Royale Posted posted on 07/03/2007 So I picked this little guy today... Never seen one like it before. It measures about 3.5 inches high, red clay with white glazed rim and inside and the raised faces on the outside are glazed. As you can see the bottom has "Trader Vic" stamped into it. Does anyone have any info on this one? Mahalo, :tiki: [ Edited by: Tiki Royale 2007-07-05 22:10 ]
D Digitiki Tiki Socialite L.A. baby! Joined: Jul 22, 2004 Posts: 819	D Digitiki Posted posted on 07/03/2007 Wow, interesting mug! You know, it seems that at one time in history Trader Vics actually had quite a number of mugs to serve various drinks in. I've never seen this one though!
PR Phillip Roberts Tiki Socialite OAHU/Seattle Joined: Sep 09, 2003 Posts: 1701	PR Phillip Roberts Posted posted on 07/04/2007 [ Edited by: filslash 2008-09-20 15:40 ]
TR Tiki Royale Member The Aloha Room in Beautiful Belmont, CA! Joined: Dec 06, 2002 Posts: 891	TR Tiki Royale Posted posted on 07/06/2007 Thanks for the tip filslash. The mug in Tiki Quest looks pretty much the same except for the glaze and that Duke says its "signed by the artesian who made it", which sounds like a hobby mug to me... Perhaps a copy of the Trader Vic one here? I can't beleive no one else has any input on this piece... Aloha, :tiki:
B bigbadtikidaddy Tiki Socialite Joined: Mar 24, 2002 Posts: 442	B bigbadtikidaddy Posted posted on 07/06/2007 Super nice piece there Shep! I dont know anything about the history of that design, but i have one in green that is unmarked. It has kind of a frankoma-ish glaze to it & I have seen others in white & black that i can remember. there are probably even more color variations out there. Yours has that frosty lava type glaze that was popular in the 60's/70's, but hell it might even be an earlier piece. Never seen or heard of one marked trader vics tho, that is tas-ty! flea or thrift?
TR Tiki Royale Member The Aloha Room in Beautiful Belmont, CA! Joined: Dec 06, 2002 Posts: 891	TR Tiki Royale Posted posted on 07/20/2007 On 2007-07-06 11:34, bigbadtikidaddy wrote: Super nice piece there Shep! I dont know anything about the history of that design, but i have one in green that is unmarked. It has kind of a frankoma-ish glaze to it & I have seen others in white & black that i can remember. there are probably even more color variations out there. Yours has that frosty lava type glaze that was popular in the 60's/70's, but hell it might even be an earlier piece. Never seen or heard of one marked trader vics tho, that is tas-ty! flea or thrift? Tanks BBTD... Score at the flea. Yeah, the Vics marking is what makes this a curious piece. It's the older, script style but it is incised or stamped into the clay not printed. Aloha, :tiki:

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