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Tiki-Kate
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Joined: Sep 21, 2003
Posts: 1700
From: Yucaipa, CA
|  Posted: 2007-10-14 3:27 pm Permalink
Picked this up today.
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tikicar
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Joined: Feb 19, 2005
Posts: 106
From: York, Pa.
| Posted: 2007-10-14 3:45 pm Permalink
Nice!!! Looks like the front piece off my African Tiki Bar.
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Tiki-Kate
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Joined: Sep 21, 2003
Posts: 1700
From: Yucaipa, CA
| Posted: 2007-10-14 5:12 pm Permalink
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On 2007-10-14 15:45, tikicar wrote:
Nice!!! Looks like the front piece off my African Tiki Bar.
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It is indeed. It still has the screws in it that connected it to the bar. It has been rigged up as a wall hanging.
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uncle trav
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Joined: Apr 27, 2005
Posts: 1531
From: Kalamazoo
| Posted: 2007-10-14 7:22 pm Permalink
Looks kinda like the Trader Vic's logo on a few of the matchbooks
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Tiki-Kate
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Joined: Sep 21, 2003
Posts: 1700
From: Yucaipa, CA
| Posted: 2007-10-14 8:07 pm Permalink
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On 2007-10-14 19:22, uncle trav wrote:
Looks kinda like the Trader Vic's logo on a few of the matchbooks
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Yep. It's a PNG Abelam mask.
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10561
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2007-10-15 2:11 pm Permalink
Kate, that is a fine example of that Witco piece, I have seen some that looked much more slapped together.
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Psycho Tiki D
Grand Member (5 years) 
Joined: Oct 13, 2006
Posts: 1783
From: The river Styx, can you pay the toll?
| Posted: 2007-10-20 6:33 pm Permalink
I picked up the Witco "Tiki" lamp today. However, much to my surprise the lamp looked suspiciously allot like the one I purchased a couple of weeks ago...
The one on the right is the new one, the one on the left is the one from two weeks ago.
I guess I was paying more attention to the lampshade to notice the lamp wasn't a true tiki?
Still, I like it and it looks good!
The lady I purchased this from has had it since the late 60's or very early 70's and brought it over from Hawaii. She says this is the original shade that came with this lamp.
PTD
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10561
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2007-10-20 9:50 pm Permalink
I always loved that shade, it came on its own as a hanging swag light too....that one and the fire dancers one. Cool find.
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SilverLine
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Joined: Mar 02, 2004
Posts: 608
From: Kansas City
| Posted: 2007-10-24 6:54 pm Permalink
Just found this today at our local Retro shop. It's priced at $600. Looks really nice!
And he also has these chairs:
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10561
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2007-10-24 9:03 pm Permalink
Only if you find the gun rack, too!  As much as I love Witco (well, obviously) I must say that it works best for me when they do modernist stuff (because Westenhaver had such a knack for it) OR Tiki stuff, because the primitivism of the chainsaw carving style complements the primitive art is was supposed to represent. When it comes to antique European styles, which, back in the day, were usually carved more intricately by trained craftsman, Witco tends to look...cheap.
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martini kings
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Joined: Nov 10, 2005
Posts: 507
From: anthony marsico
| Posted: 2007-10-27 09:40 am Permalink
has anyone ever seen this witco toilet???
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Murph
Grand Member (4 years) 
Joined: Jul 11, 2006
Posts: 671
From: SoCal
| Posted: 2007-11-05 4:01 pm Permalink
Quite an impressive bar on Ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Polynesian-Hawaiian-Huge-Oak-Vintage-63-Tiki-Bar-Set_W0QQitemZ190169039759QQihZ009QQcategoryZ29460QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Is it Witco?
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nimereht
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Sep 08, 2002
Posts: 30 | Posted: 2007-11-07 6:24 pm Permalink
that is definitely witco...i have one of those bar stools except it has orange shag instead of that pleather...it also has the witco label still attached...
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Sneakytiki
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Joined: Mar 31, 2003
Posts: 1795
From: Boise, Idaho
| Posted: 2007-11-09 12:56 am Permalink
That witco shitco (toilet) is great!
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Kenike
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Joined: Jul 24, 2003
Posts: 1201
From: McKinney, TX
| Posted: 2007-11-28 11:47 am Permalink
My recent Witco score:
It had the matching stools when I bought it. The antique store I bought it from accidentally sold it to someone else before I
could pick it up. That person took the stools and refused to return them, saying it was “on hold” for them before I bought it
(it wasn’t). A huge fight ensued between myself, the owner of the store and the other buyer. After considering legal action
(and my blood pressure) I decided just to remove myself from the equation, and told the store owner that I’d walk away from the
whole situation if they would meet my price for the bar without the stools, taking into consideration the hassle they put me through.
My final price for just the bar: $50.
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