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naugatiki
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Posts: 806
From: Port Angeles, Wa
|  Posted: 2010-01-18 2:22 pm Permalink
I found this one today at the Goodwill, it is 11 inches tall. I'm not sure if it's Witco or a resonable facsimile.
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Tikinomad
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Posts: 364
From: Outerspace
| Posted: 2010-01-18 2:28 pm Permalink
It's Witco, great find! 
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naugatiki
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From: Port Angeles, Wa
| Posted: 2010-01-18 3:45 pm Permalink
Thanks, when I saw it sitting on the shelf it was displayed upside down and had to flip it over to recognize the tiki.
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Brandomoai
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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada
| Posted: 2010-01-24 3:28 pm Permalink
Ok, folks, what have I got here? This was purchased as a "Witco Tiki". Is it? If so, it's my first! If not, it was pretty cheap and I'll hang it anyway. It's about 15" tall.
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uncle trav
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From: Kalamazoo
| Posted: 2010-01-24 3:46 pm Permalink
Looks like the Witco style of a war club to me. But with all Witco or Witcolike pieces sometimes it's hard to tell at first glance what it is your looking at. For me anyway.
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bigbrotiki
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From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2010-01-24 4:10 pm Permalink
That one got me stumped, too! But it is so organic, it definitely looks like Witco...but Witco What!? War club seems like a good guess....
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The Granite Tiki
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Joined: Jul 02, 2005
Posts: 785
From: Nashua, NH
| Posted: 2010-01-24 4:56 pm Permalink
I wonder if there was originally telltale paint on it.
I'm gonna go look at this book I have with a lot of witco pictures in it. 
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Brandomoai
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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada
| Posted: 2010-01-24 6:20 pm Permalink
Here are a few more photos. No identifiable markings that I can see. I'm inclined to believe that if the experts are stumped, it's probably not the real thing.
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Sweet Daddy Tiki
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From: Edmonton
| Posted: 2010-01-24 8:37 pm Permalink
It's a cat.
No, a turkey drumstick.
No, it's a....
sorry, that's all I've got.
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Brandomoai
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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada
| Posted: 2010-01-24 9:15 pm Permalink
It's a back-scratcher!
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Tiki Shaker
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Joined: Jun 28, 2008
Posts: 688
From: Oceanside, CA
| Posted: 2010-01-24 9:47 pm Permalink
The first thing I thought of when I saw it was a flower in a vase.
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Brandomoai
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Posts: 310
From: Edmonton, AB, Canada
| Posted: 2010-01-29 3:34 pm Permalink
Flower in a vase is as good a guess as any. I swear I've seen this design before, but I can't find anything on this site or in Tiki Modern that looks like it. I think I'll mount it on some kind of animal print and tell all my friends it's Witco (except for the ones who read this and know I'm a fraud...)
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Psycho Tiki D
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Joined: Oct 13, 2006
Posts: 1783
From: The river Styx, can you pay the toll?
| Posted: 2010-02-13 11:38 am Permalink
Today...
Later,
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10562
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2010-02-15 10:21 am Permalink
Nice find, man! Pretty rare, have not seen too many of those around.
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TennesseeTiki
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Joined: Jan 20, 2010
Posts: 10
From: The land of the Delta Blues
| Posted: 2010-02-15 6:24 pm Permalink
A couple I have in the home tiki bar
Found the stool in great condition, already re-upholstered.
The sword is 54" long with a 10" hilt. Paint is just about perfect. It hangs above the bar.
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