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TikiRootsRocka
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From: Los Angeles, California
|  Posted: 2012-07-02 4:10 pm Permalink
Very nice Tipsy!
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TIKI DAVID
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From: North Coast
| Posted: 2012-07-02 4:37 pm Permalink
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The Quiet Village
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Joined: Mar 17, 2012
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From: Fort Worth, Texas
| Posted: 2012-07-08 10:23 am Permalink
I saw this sitting on a wall at my local antique store. The wood grain made me wonder if this is Witco. Anyone seen anything like this piece before? Thanks yall for any help you can provide. I didnt pick it up because it kinda just screams random tribal mask to me,but if it is witco I will run and get it because I have zero witco pieces, and this will be the first one I have ever seen.
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Dustycajun
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Posts: 3923
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2012-07-08 12:30 pm Permalink
This is a really long thread, so I didn't look at every page. Don't remember seeing this Wilrongo ship before.
DC
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TIKIBOSKO
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Joined: Oct 17, 2004
Posts: 297 | Posted: 2012-07-10 3:14 pm Permalink
Hey DC, I think that one is called the "Sea Witch"
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bigtikidude
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From: Anaheim,Ca.
| Posted: 2012-07-10 7:40 pm Permalink
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On 2012-07-08 10:23, The Quiet Village wrote:
I saw this sitting on a wall at my local antique store. The wood grain made me wonder if this is Witco. Anyone seen anything like this piece before? Thanks yall for any help you can provide. I didnt pick it up because it kinda just screams random tribal mask to me,but if it is witco I will run and get it because I have zero witco pieces, and this will be the first one I have ever seen.
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It's a rare Witco -Tiki- Jackalope.
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
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From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2012-07-11 2:57 pm Permalink
Yup, it's Witco - Witco was doing a lot of "random tribal mask" stuff in their day, I call it "modern primitive". They did a bunch of African-named pieces, yet their classic African bar has a Papua New Guinea mask on the front - it's a melange called "Tiki Modern".
Not so much stemming from the Polynesian restaurant fad but from the appreciation that modern artists had for ALL "primitive" art early in the 20th Century, which made its way into middle-class living rooms in the mid-century. Though Bill Westenhaver acknowledged that the Polynesian craze gave Witco its major boost, he as a typical mid-century modern artist was not married to the Polynesian theme. Plus, most of his business was in home decor, not bar decor.
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SilverLine
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From: Kansas City
| Posted: 2012-07-16 12:38 pm Permalink
Well it isn't MY Witco, and likely won't be, but this stuff is SOOO rare around here that I have to post it!
Found this complete set of living room furniture at a new antique mall in town. Sofa, chairs, tables tamps AND 4 barstools (not pictured).
No tiki, no animals, but pure Witco.
Fabric looks original (as does all of it) and the whole thing is in pretty nice comdition. They wanted $2,500 for the set, if I remember right.
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Sabu The Coconut Boy
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From: Carson, California
| Posted: 2012-08-24 12:09 am Permalink
Flaire Furniture ad from 1967
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Tipsy McStagger
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From: HELL
| Posted: 2012-08-25 3:15 pm Permalink
scored this tiki shield and spear recently....
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Dustycajun
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From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2012-08-26 6:16 pm Permalink
A Witco Port and Starboard light carving
DC
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Tikisgrl
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Joined: Aug 03, 2005
Posts: 861
From: Lowell, Mass
| Posted: 2012-09-02 1:34 pm Permalink
Witco, available in Maine... About 4 x 5 feet.
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tikijackalope
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Joined: Oct 23, 2003
Posts: 814
From: KS/MO
| Posted: 2012-09-03 02:03 am Permalink
I can't be sure, but that looks like a set that was at Retro Inferno (another KC antique store) back in the early 2000s.
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On 2012-07-16 12:38, SilverLine wrote:
Well it isn't MY Witco, and likely won't be, but this stuff is SOOO rare around here that I have to post it!
Found this complete set of living room furniture at a new antique mall in town. Sofa, chairs, tables tamps AND 4 barstools (not pictured).
No tiki, no animals, but pure Witco.
Fabric looks original (as does all of it) and the whole thing is in pretty nice comdition. They wanted $2,500 for the set, if I remember right.
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TIKI DAVID
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Joined: Apr 07, 2004
Posts: 1904
From: North Coast
| Posted: 2012-09-17 09:47 am Permalink
Estate Sale find in SHARON PA.
VERY reasoable.
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Hale Tiki
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Joined: Oct 19, 2004
Posts: 1395
From: Pittsburgh
| Posted: 2012-09-17 6:03 pm Permalink
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On 2012-09-17 09:47, TIKI DAVID wrote:
Estate Sale find in SHARON PA.
VERY reasoable.
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What the heck are you doing in my neck of the woods buying awesome Witco!?
Also, is it still available, or did you pick it up? Looks great!
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