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Is This The Elusive Cobra's Fang Mug? |
bongofury
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Joined: Oct 15, 2002
Posts: 1473
From: Ventura County
|  Posted: 2008-06-02 4:34 pm Permalink
I found a couple of these a while back. No markings and does not look like the mug in the Islander menu.
Any help out there would be appreciated. Mahalo....
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Tiki-Kate
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Joined: Sep 21, 2003
Posts: 1700
From: Yucaipa, CA
| Posted: 2008-06-02 6:33 pm Permalink
It certainly looks like the one in the case at Oceanic Arts.
A couple of months ago, Bob was telling us how they were selling them at OA years ago. They just weren't moving, so they marked them down to $.39 a piece.
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bongofury
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Joined: Oct 15, 2002
Posts: 1473
From: Ventura County
| Posted: 2008-06-02 9:49 pm Permalink
Thanks Kate for that info. It's been a while since I was at OA and I usually look at that case but I must be blind as I don't remember seeing them. I found those mugs a couple years ago and It only dawned on me what they might be after looking at the menu today.
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Trader Tom
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Joined: Jan 26, 2006
Posts: 744
From: Hillsboro, OR
| Posted: 2008-06-02 11:49 pm Permalink
I also think the one you found is an example of the Oceanic Arts mugs, as Tiki Kate was saying.
Bob still has most of the original mold for those mugs and a couple of months ago I started a list at the counter. He said that if enough people expressed interest and signed in, he might see about making some more! I only got about 5 people to sign up, though. I really need to start a separate thread to get that going, but I've been really busy lately...
There is another Cobra's Fang mug sitting on a shelf at the Tiki Ti which is closer to the menu depiction. It can be seen on their website. It has the head that coils over and appears to be spitting venom over the lip of the mug. Here's a shot from their website:
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bongofury
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Posts: 1473
From: Ventura County
| Posted: 2008-06-03 06:19 am Permalink
Now that's a cool mug!
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Al-ii
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Posts: 248
From: Oceanside Ca
| Posted: 2008-06-03 09:05 am Permalink
These aren't very good pictures, but, you can see the mugs.
Taken at OA
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bongofury
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Posts: 1473
From: Ventura County
| Posted: 2008-06-05 1:53 pm Permalink
Thanks Al. The other mug is a darker green. No chips or cracks.
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Unkle John
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Joined: Oct 22, 2003
Posts: 1216
From: Middle-of-the-Ocean, TX
| Posted: 2008-06-06 09:42 am Permalink
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A Semi-Sweet Dink?
Is this correct or a type-o?
I envy you, I've been looking for a Cobra's fang for years.
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Humuhumu
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Posts: 3536
From: San Francisco
| Posted: 2008-06-17 8:18 pm Permalink
That's so cool! I've been curious about potential snake mugs out there ever since I saw this menu from the Mauna Loa in Mexico City:
The mug pictured above it actually exists, so I've been hopeful that the snake one does, too. Best I've been able to figure, the Mauna Loa Mexico mugs were manufactured by a unique manufacturer (some mugs are marked "Enrique Gerra" which was a ceramicist in Mexico City). The menu design is very stylized, of course, but I'd love to see a snake mug like that one, with the head sticking straight up. This mug gives me hope that one of these babies really exists!
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Bora Boris
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Joined: Mar 25, 2005
Posts: 2401
From: Boogie Wonderland
| Posted: 2008-06-17 9:20 pm Permalink
Here is another shot of the Tiki-Ti Cobra's Fang mug that I've borrowed from their website.
www.tiki-ti.com
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teaKEY
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Joined: Nov 09, 2004
Posts: 3663
From: The thumb !
| Posted: 2008-08-22 05:13 am Permalink
On Ebay right now, I bet someone would bid on this.
Here
Buy It Now only $12.50
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Trader Tom
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Joined: Jan 26, 2006
Posts: 744
From: Hillsboro, OR
| Posted: 2008-08-22 09:01 am Permalink
Cool mug...but it's a rattlesnake, not a cobra.
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Unkle John
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Joined: Oct 22, 2003
Posts: 1216
From: Middle-of-the-Ocean, TX
| Posted: 2008-08-22 2:40 pm Permalink
Man that would be a cool mug to have....
Especially where I live.. I've killed over 3 dozen rattle snakes since I moved out west.
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pa'akiki
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Joined: Mar 26, 2005
Posts: 70 | Posted: 2010-02-22 6:45 pm Permalink
I found this it has no makers mark but you can tell it's old. has anyone seen one could this be the real thing.
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10561
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2010-02-22 7:00 pm Permalink
Wow! Never seen this baby before in my Tiki life! I never thought that that famous menu illustration was such an accurate rendering of the real thing! --That, or some fun-loving mug maker here has made one directly from that illustration, to elicit reactions such as mine. 
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