![]() ![]() Haugland and the museum started their own production, still through Ottar Lilleengen’s carpenter shop in Gjøvik. Problems persisted despite the fact that the Kon-Tiki Museum invested NOK 5.000,- in production, and on October 18 th, Knut M. The Kon-Tiki Museum had run out of model-sets and only got a small batch of new sets in January of 1954. Sales was good all summer and autumn of 1953, but Arne Tjomsland could not provide enough sets with a marked decline in sales during the winter months as a result. International sales were handled directly by Arne Tjomsland’s company. The Kon-Tiki raft, scale-model set in balsa-wood was manufactured by Ottar Lilleengen, a company in Gjøvik, and sold by The Kon-Tiki Museum and by the warehouse Sten & Strøm in Oslo. The only authentic model on the market of the KON-TIKI raft. The first production set had a short text in 12 languages, although 16 was suggested: Norwegian (counting for Swedish and Danish as well) English French German Italian Portuguese Irish Dutch Greek Finnish Spanish Esperanto Icelandic Hebrew Japanese Turkish. ![]()
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