Post #185076 by exotica59 on Wed, Sep 7, 2005 1:13 PM

I too love the coconut monkey and heads. I picked up my first one when I spotted him at a old thrift store. As soon as I saw that face, I flashed back to when I was about 7 or 8 yrs old. Our neighbors were world travelers and brought back all kinds of neat stuff to hang in their huge home bar and lounge. I'm not sure where the coconut head came from, but I remembered staring at it from it's place on the wall next to the bar.
Since then I pick up any type of coconut head I can find if it is cheap.
Last winter we were poking around up in Milwaukee WI. at a rather expensive antique nd curio shop. I almost fell over when I spotted a floor lamp made from coconut heads stacked one on top of the other up the pole and then they had Sawed the faces in half and affixed them to a heavy shade. They wanted several hundred for the thing! Someday I hope to have enough to make my own lamp.
For now here is what I have found.