Post #338347 by Cool Manchu on Sun, Oct 14, 2007 7:56 AM

I have two the first one of mine comes from my early days of collecting. I went to an annual antique fair in Moss Landing, CA and came across a huge version of the Harvey's Hula Bowl and when I say huge, it was the size of a punch bowl...no joke. It must have been 16" tall at the very least.

My first thought was oh, it's a Harvey's (even in the early day I came across Harvey's bowls). Within five minutes I realized "What the hell am I thinking? That is huge, I won't ever see another one!" And went immediately back to the booth, but alas, it was gone already. The selling price? $35 bucks. Man, I can be an idiot.

The other one was a ultra-hip Witco tiki lamp with a shade that had three wood tiki's even spaced around the very large tapa-cloth-esqe shade and a full tiki at the bottom. I haven't seen one yet here on TC, but it was magnificent. It was still dark out at the antique fair in Alameda, but they wanted $350 for it and it would have completely wiped out my funds for the day. When I went back, it was still there, but the guy right behind me earlier bought it...and he came back to pick it up and I just stood there watching the lamp in all it's beauty walk away in the arms of another man...:(