Tiki Mug Design
Munktiki Imports Alibi Logo Tiki Mug - Red
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This is a mug shaped like a Tiki head with half circle eyes, an angular nose, and broad lips. Back features some palm fronds and the words: "The Alibi est. 1947" This mug was made by Munktiki Imports for The Alibi, a Portland tavern, with a long history, that turned Polynesian in 1947. These mugs were sold in 4 glaze color combinations in a wipe-away effect leaving the raised surface a beige ("Antique Lace") and the recessed areas either "Sunset Red", "Lime Green", "Denim Blue", or "Burnt Umber Brown" and later "Yellow".
*NOTE: This version was labeled "Sunset Red" but is probably more aptly labeled a deep orange. The 75th version of this mug produced with the same orange glaze was actually called "orange" in their marketing, so they eventually decided the same thing themselves.