Catalina Island Flying Fish Tile with Border

The tiles I ordered arrived safely, wrapped carefully in a timely manner. They are beautiful prints attached to thin (1/16" thick) white ceramic tile. They are lovely replicas of the original tile designs I've seen in person on Catalina Island. Accurate tile replicas are made from red adobe-like clay, like the ones produced on the Island during it's tile manufacturing boom. Authentic Catalina tiles are thick tiles (1/4" thick) which are quite sturdy that you can use indoors or outdoors. These thin replicas are more for decoration than function. That being said, Zazzle's photo replicas of the beautiful tile designs seen on Catalina are well-made, and should be lovely and useful. I did buy the Flying Fish tile for decoration, and I'm very happy with it. I'm excited to have it hanging in my Ocean room at home! :D. The colors were vivid and bright, and the lines were aligned which is critical for this kind of art. One of the tiles I ordered was perfect, the other, the lines were off.

From the pictures we needed to replace two tiles that had the old toothbrush and soap dish and the tile guy said two tiles would have to be removed. The tiles were PERFECT! just a slight color difference to the naked eye but they match pretty darn good. Tile guy had to shave the back because the 1957 tile was thinner but as you can see it worked out great! We are elated over the moon happy, Thank you!

I really love how these ceramic tiles turned out. Vivid colors and nicely done. Very happy with this product! The colors turned out beautifully! Better than I had hoped for.