Banyan Blue

This is the 'Papu' mug designed by Bai and manufactured in the U.K by CheekyTiki. According to the blurb it's "styled on a Papu New Guinea tiki. Terracotta red glossy glaze, will naturally vary. Dishwasher safe. 17cm tall x 8cm diameter approx. 10-12 fl oz approx."

Were my grandparents' - 1.35 on bottom of each

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one used & chipped

CheekyTiki have been refreshing their range by revisiting some old designs with new glaze colours. Here's their 'Papu' mug in "Oatmeal". Same size as the original so - "17cm tall x 8cm diameter approx. 10-12 fl oz approx."

CheekyTiki have been refreshing their range by revisiting some old designs with new glaze colours. Here's their 'Papu' mug in "Honey brown". Same size as the original so - "17cm tall x 8cm diameter approx. 10-12 fl oz approx."

Prize from a tiki party

@ Atlanta

CheekyTiki have been refreshing their range by revisiting some old designs with new glaze colours. Here's their 'Papu' mug in "Denim" (which looks just plain grey under the camera flash but does have a greyish-blue tint in natural light). Same size as the original so - "17cm tall x 8cm diameter approx. 10-12 fl oz approx."

Disney 'Mermaid' handled mug. A rather dubious addition perhaps... maybe it's made for 'The Little Mermaid'? ...but it was on sale in the Bou-tiki store at the Polynesian Resort and there are plenty of other tiki mugs featuring mermaids. Very tactile, it feels like a proper tiki mug... honest :-) 5" tall 3.5" wide (excluding the handle). All-over sea-blue glaze, the handle is fashioned from the mermaid's tail.

Porcelanas Pavon "Remolino" mug. Remolino translates as 'swirl'. Cat.# is HW-057D. Unusual lens shape. Holds 500cl. Height is 5" width varies because of shape widest diameter is 4.5" narrowest is 3". Tapa style design of sun ray, flower petals, or eyes (or whatever else they might represent) on the main body with circles around the rim. Yellow ochre/brownish glaze with black overpainting.

OK, this is clearly not a mug - but the central component is ceramic. It's CheekyTiki's 'Framed Ceramic Tangaroa Mask Lucky Dip'. Here's what they say... "Hand made signed and numbered ceramic mask limited to 250 random colour ways. CheekyTiki are using their stock glaze colours and combining them with some cool back grounds. Size : 12.5 inches square. Take a chance and see what you get." I'm not entirely convinced about the beauty of my 'lucky dip' - orange and red are a bit clashy... but some of the matting/barkcloth and brown/green ceramic combos on their website look mighty fine.

Don't know much about this one... looks rather more African than conventional tiki - but still quite nice. It's got a handle, it's made of a rather crude 'clay' material with a couple of dinks. Seems to have a bit of age. 8" tall and 4" wide not including the handle. Unmarked on the base but has some writing on the back - hard to discern, but seems to say 'Corza DP134'.

looks like it had a felt bottom attached at some point.

Not really sure what section to add this one - or whether it qualifies at all really... but anyhoo. It's the mug used to serve hot green tea at Benihana restaurants. Familiar white porcelain with classic oriental blue pattern - which in this case is a depiction of the safflower, as seen in the Benihana logo. A similar, different but smaller design is printed on the rear. These aren't really for sale... but somehow one managed to appear in amongst the bag of bona fide other mugs I drank from and purchased on my recent visit to the Coral Gables branch.

"The Hangover Mug" by Wim Thielemans' Flap's Tikis

Crafted by "Tiki Rob" in Maui - first run of 20

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The Crazed Mugs Tiki Mug

Marked 'Orchids of Hawaii R91 Korea' on the base rather than the usual 'Japan' or 'Taiwan' variants. The back is a mirror image of the front instead of having the usual 'plain, dimpled' design.

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double-sided, marked 'Korea' on base

This one was overpriced at the Hillsboro Antiques Mall in Pompano Beach, FL. - but since I'm from the UK and had basically wasted a couple of hours of my vacation dragging the missus round looking at old tat I felt I couldn't come away completely empty-handed...

Tapa Turtle Bob

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Honu on Back

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hairline crack on the back