Hello Readers,
Summer, with all its wonders and all its time-consuming yard-related chores, beckons. I like to take a break from Halloween at least twice annually - right around now and during December.
Enjoy the month. I’ll check back sometime in July.
MBL
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Mark B. Ledenbach's vintage Halloween collectibles blog.
Pre 1920 Halloween 3D Card Art Work
Some firm produced four 3-D designs in the teens derived from four post cards published by Bergman. (It may very well have been Bergman itself.) None surface more than maybe once every 5 years, so it was instructive to see what these listings fetched. The highest brought nearly $500. The buyers all got bargains in my opinion.
Antique Halloween “The Fortune Crystal” Spinner Game
Although this game is well-designed and this listing has everything a potential buyer wants to see - clear photos and a straight-forward description uncluttered with a lot of nonsense - I have never classified this fortune game as one made specifically for Halloween. There is no Halloween iconography, no Halloween colors and no mention of Halloween anywhere on the game. It is simply a fortune telling game.
Vintage Halloween Nose Maker Scare Crow
I’m sure the seller was simply careless in calling this a nose maker in the description. No matter how great this putty knife noisemaker is, it isn’t an extra from the long-ago show, Nip and Tuck.
