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Why yes...that's true !
So what does this lamp have anything to do with that ??

 

it looks good for a rustic country home...

 

Style wise. During my Navy service at Pearl Harbor I saw lots of this stuff. It's because most of the Tiki items I saw were made with burn textured wood or had this look.

 

True! I could state that as well.
The wood pieces on the shade make me think of the Tiki look the most because of the carved and burned panels.

 

I see the burned wood as country style....

 

I do too though, for me, it is as I stated.

 

When I think of "tiki" lamps, I think of those wicker torches you stick in the ground at your lawn parties... but I Googled 'em, and yep, there are indoor electric lamps call tiki, too!

 

I'm a bit over-sensitive to using the word "Tiki" (Komo may be also)
because so often it is used in combination with the word "totem" on ebay for a figural object that the seller knows nothing about, but which is clearly Hawaiian or Polynesian; as in "Tiki/totem."

The Tiki "gods" have nothing to do with totems, and the souvenir ones have darn little to do with Polynesian culture, for that matter.
I have seen quite a few with a surface-burnt treatment though.
Just a rant, I guess.

 

Thank you!
Those are good examples and very much the type I've seen with Pyrography...or even plastic ones with faux Pyrography.

 

Believe that lamp, was probably intended to look Spanish/Mediterranean, circa 1960s-70s. Can also remember my brother taking a torch to virtually every piece of wood he turned during that same time period (his specialty being gigantic candlesticks for hippie abodes)...

~Cheryl

 

I'm with Cheryl. Classic 1960s tourist Spanish.

 

And on the little electric motor: I had an older all-metal version. Cool for sure.

 

Thank you ALL!
Not normal for me to buy a lamp to sell but this one isn't a keeper for me so now I have some key words for the eBidet title!
I'd better get cleaning and some touch up on it.

 

I just got this pin at the GW. Nicer than the photo shows.
Don't know what aircraft it is. Can't find it.
Probably Boeing. Komo? Anyone???
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The wing configuration is called a canard, might help in finding what your pin is modeled after.

 

Maybe a Boeing Sonic Cruiser.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mul...AUIBygC#hl=en&tbm=isch&q=boeing+sonic+cruiser

 

Lamp is probably Mexican. Chip carved craft, 70s or so. Not folk art but that would be the key words to use to get eyes looking. Seems everyone tries to stretch the parameters of folk art at every turn. You might as well join the masses.

 

It's not often you can touch up a piece with a torch.

 

Looks like it!!!