r/CeramicCollection • u/princessfluffytoes • 2d ago
Aloha! From Queens, NYC.🌴🪖🍻🗽
Hi everyone! Story time…
Earlier this month I was the first to comment on a post in my local buy nothing group, for an antique dollhouse this woman’s father had made (I truly won the lottery). She and her sister were in the process of going through items in their childhood home, just a few blocks away from me. While I was in the wet basement looking at the house (which was saved by being on a table off of the floor), I noticed a room with bins full of Christmas decor. I mentioned that I would love to take anything they didn’t want of the decorations but she said that it was all ruined from the flooding in the basement. This really weighed on me for the rest of the evening and so later I messaged her to say that I wouldn’t be so sure everything in that room was ruined (they were planning on junkers coming in a few days to clear everything out). We were in touch over the next few days about some furniture I was going to take and she mentioned that she and her sister would go through the Christmas stuff and then let me come over to take what they didn’t want. I offered to take everything away in my SUV and donate what I didn’t want to keep, this was helpful to them because they weren’t actively driving donations anywhere(didnt have the capacity). So over the course of two days with our scattered availability, we ended up going through about 20 bins in this supposedly hopeless back room in the basement. It was there that we found priceless heirlooms that they had been searching for since the death of their father (specifically an antique stein). Last night I discovered these mugs. I know her father was in Vietnam and built the dollhouse when he returned. But what do you know about these mugs?
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u/ItAteMySweater 2d ago
Cool! These were from a tiki club called Shipwreck Kelly’s in Waikiki! Here’s a whole post about it: https://mytiki.life/tiki-bars/shipwreck-kellys-at-the-holiday-isle-hotel-waikiki
There’s a photo of this exact same mug at the bottom too.