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VampiressRN
Grand Member (5 years) 
Joined: Nov 23, 2006
Posts: 5093
From: Sin City Lincoln Hills (NorCal)
|  Posted: 2013-03-06 8:46 pm Permalink
Great job...it is coming along nicely. 
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Thurston Howell IV
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Apr 08, 2013
Posts: 23
From: Hervey Bay Australia
| Posted: 26 days ago; 5:09 pm Permalink
Hi, 'm coming to this post a little late but I like what you've accomplished with the space. That black figurine you picked up from the garage sale is a piece of Australian kitsch by a guy named Barsony. He was a Hungarian immigrant to Australia after WWII and was popular in the 1950s-70s. Here's a pic of a Barsony piece we own.
His stuff is quite collectible and fetches $200-300 on the east coast. Great find.
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Hale Tiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Oct 19, 2004
Posts: 1414
From: Pittsburgh
| Posted: 25 days ago; 03:44 am Permalink
To ebay I go!
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komohana
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 08, 2010
Posts: 348
From: western australia
| Posted: 25 days ago; 9:06 pm Permalink
aloha guys, thanks for stoppin' by.
yeah, i often thought whether or not to expand on the lamp, but eventually decided not to,
i'd already stretched the non-Tiki with the dog etc., besides, i wasn't sure if his work
was all that well known, although i understand that quite a bit of it was exported and was
popular in europe, i believe, but probably not america? and as no-one else commented until
yourself, Thurston, another australian, this kind-of confirmed my thoughts.
anyhow, as it has been brought up, here's a link to a segment the collectors produced a few
years back which i guess would be a good introduction to anyone interested who may not be
familiar with his work.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/collectors/segments/s3077643.htm
cheers, bob
edit:
p.s. these lamps appear fairly regularly on gumtree, one of our online classifieds, for anyone
looking for an example.
[ This Message was edited by: komohana 2013-04-30 21:21 ]
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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10566
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 24 days ago; 12:33 am Permalink
Beautiful stuff, thanks for the video. There was a similar style of ceramics popular in Germany in the 50s, often made in Austria (close to Hungary):
It is telling that these kind of Exotic portrayals seemed to flourish in countries that did not have a large indigenous population of that kind, just like Tiki flourished AWAY from the Pacific Islands:
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=34744&forum=1&vpost=496554
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Gibbo
Tiki Centralite
Joined: May 02, 2007
Posts: 21
From: Far off Western Australia
| Posted: 21 days ago; 12:33 am Permalink
Hey there Bob,
How about some updates on that wonderful bar extension old mate!
Cheers and Mahalo,
Gibbo
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