Tiki Finds - Collecting Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Wed, Sep 11, 2013 1:55 PM On 2013-09-11 11:01, gabbahey wrote: Thanks for the help identifying the mug Trader Tom and Bigbro. I'll post some better pictures of the Witco-esque wall hanging in the Witco thread and check the back again for markings. gabbahey Despite the unusual surface markings on the piece... ...there is a possibility that this IS a piece of Witco because it seems to have been carved out of the same material than other Witco pieces: Swamp cedar RAIN GUTTERS. As I mentioned in Tiki Modern, William Westenhaver bought a whole truck load of those cheap, and turned them into abstract art with a few cuts. Best known is this guitar: ...but there were others like this "Nuba Totem" on the left: On the other hand, some of the Witco copyists actually used to work for Witco and then went into the carving business on their own, so it is hard to say.

On 2013-09-11 11:01, gabbahey wrote:
Thanks for the help identifying the mug Trader Tom and Bigbro. I'll post some better pictures of the Witco-esque wall hanging in the Witco thread and check the back again for markings.
gabbahey

Despite the unusual surface markings on the piece...

...there is a possibility that this IS a piece of Witco because it seems to have been carved out of the same material than other Witco pieces: Swamp cedar RAIN GUTTERS. As I mentioned in Tiki Modern, William Westenhaver bought a whole truck load of those cheap, and turned them into abstract art with a few cuts. Best known is this guitar:

...but there were others like this "Nuba Totem" on the left:

On the other hand, some of the Witco copyists actually used to work for Witco and then went into the carving business on their own, so it is hard to say.

Post #693190 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Sep 11, 2013 1:55 PM