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halloween collector com blog fakes etc acquisitions get third edition how to order your copy additional info errata contact about faq blog fakes etc acquisitions get third edition how to order your copy additional info errata contact about faq menu halloween collector com presented by mark b ledenbach blog mark b ledenbach s vintage halloween collectibles blog pook pook auction april 18 2026 pook pook inc in pennsylvania held an auction of the alice and art booth collection over several days with the halloween lots being sold on april 17th final prices were reasonable overall probably due to the very high buyer s premium of 27 these auction houses really need to think about the viability of their business model as such high rates discourage participation one thing i appreciated is that the few lots that were partially or wholly comprised of modern items were clearly listed as being modern items eliminating any confusion newer collectors may have experienced lots 853 through 860 lot 858 seems to have been placed amidst the grinning jol items in error did very well as this market segment is avidly collected the candle stick candy container fetched 4 600 excluding the exorbitant buyer s premium meaning the all in selling price was 5 842 lot 872 was a small candy box with the rarest imagery pieces from this set are so hard to acquire that i gave up on it decades ago it fetched 4 200 w o bp and a whopping 5 334 with bp another lot surprised me i have never been an avid collector of german lanterns and the owl ones in particular have always left me cold however 26 bids were placed on lot 889 it fetched 3 200 w o bp and a whopping 4 064 with bp go to the pook pook site and poke around they had some nice items that by and large sold at or below what i would have forecast i think if their buyer s premium was a reasonable 10 12 the ending prices would have been materially higher vintage halloween c1910 jol man saxophone noisemaker horn veggie man carpentier april 13 2026 this seller has been offering a range of c level to a level items for many months but all with head shakingly high opening prices i firmly believe this practice is not conducive to getting market prices for items high opening prices don t motivate collectors to bid as there is zero possibility of getting any sort of bargain when his listings end with no action he simply relists the item again with rarely any change to the opening price sellers that routinely do well on ebay are those like zizsdream and mysweetjanene who start their offerings independent of rarity and desirability at a low price and trust in the auction process i sold a jol saxophone horn just like this in my annual auction last month after some spirited bidding the horn sold for nearly 1 400 this seller s horn although in lesser condition sold for a pittance relative to what i feel he would have gotten if he would have simply listed it with an opening price of something like 9 99 tags saxophone german noisemaker vintage halloween hard plastic jack o lantern sucker holder rosbro 1950 s april 13 2026 i love this seller they know what they are selling have great photos and provide spot on descriptions plus they are nice don t hesitate doing business with them they have many fine items up for auction check them out tags hard plastic rosbro interesting observation march 24 2026 a long time reader asked if i knew what firm produced the set of four small paper items below he then wondered if the same artist that created the quartet did the artwork for the pick a pumpkin game discussed at length on page 125 even though i had seen this quartet many times over in the nearly 40 years since i began collecting i had never made that connection isn t it obvious now though i don t know which firm produced the quartet but i think it is a given the same artist was involved in these projects thanks to gs for his insightful thinking if anyone knows what firm produced the quartet please let me know tags pick a pumpkin game vintage halloween 1930s beistle black cat band hat march 10 2026 it s nice seeing such quality beistle band hats on ebay especially at this time of the year when quality offerings are few beistle made many many band hat halloween designs too many of which are forgettable this isn t one of those this actually sold for 350 a respectable price for this design in this condition but i wonder what it would have brought in an auction setting i suspect more the collecting key for this series of band hats is the artwork on the band some of this artwork wasn t used again so buying one of these band hats gives you an opportunity to see the full breadth of beistle s artistic creativity tags beistle band hat cat halloween bridge tally card rust craft 3952 unused gilded moon vintage march 10 2026 rust craft was a small paper manufacturer out of boston massachusetts they began in 1906 and lumbered through until merging with norcross in 1981 in terms of their halloween output their golden age shared with so many other manufacturers was the 1920s collectors began noticing the eccentricity of their designs perhaps five years ago their output was small relative to beistle dennison and gibson in that order so opportunities to buy rust craft items from the 1920s in near mint or better condition aren t plentiful this tally sold yesterday for a sum undreamt of just a few years ago i feel the value runway for rust craft small paper is long so if you like their design aesthetic plan on buying now rather than later rust craft was disciplined about marking their wares and assigning stock numbers to them but not always i feel that in the first season they decided to take the halloween plunge they hadn t codified their design aesthetic i haven t been able to pinpoint that precise year pieces i suspect were made by rust craft then have a larger form factor a simple color and design scheme and are sometimes hand stamped made in usa i think this loosey goosey period lasted maybe up to one season tags rust craft 1950s antique vintage beistle halloween ghostly stunt and fortune game unused february 16 2026 this small game that beistle produced during the 1950s has gotten hard to find i had once assigned an rsin of 3 to it but feel comfortable changing that to a 2 because many of these stunt games were meant to be pulled apart the vast majority are used to some degree making finding an unused one with bright colors a real coup i see this fine seller has recently offered a number of beistle games in nice condition pickings are slim this time of year so be sure to check out the 103 lots comprising this year s auction when the preview period begins this coming wednesday morning tags ghostly game beistle vintage 1920s 30s german germany halloween diecut 5 witch decoration embossed february 11 2026 this german diecut sold for 255 there are two versions of this desirable diecut the rarer version has the witch staring straight ahead with different teeth and a different hat design both versions were made with mirror images so if you look on page 177 you ll see both designs you ll see the item that sold recently on ebay is a mirror image of the one shown in the reference tags witch diecut germany bertoia s holiday january 2026 auction january 30 2026 over the last two days bertoia auctions held their holiday january 2026 event with a very nice selection of vintage halloween although they had very few diecut lots one held an exceedingly rare dennison item that i was lucky enough to snap up for a good price now keep in mind like all auction houses there is a buyer s premium in this auction it was 20 one of the buyer advantages to my auction is that i have never charged a buyer s premium only requiring a book purchase for entry eligibility my auction s publicity will start in about a week the preview period will begin february 18 candy containers saw strong results as did hard plastic and german porcelain i ve included the lots i found notable below the first photo shows one of the lots on which i was the prevailing bidder the triple witch head dennison diecut is one i ve only seen one other time it is worth the entire lot price and more the second photo shows a porcelain lot the plate at the left was the star of the lot very few exist every one i ve ever seen has wear like the one from linda morrow s collection the third and fourth photos show stellar results for two of the most difficult to find items from the large output of such wares made between 1908 1932 the item described as a sugar shaker is actually a hat pin holder see my book s errata the fifth photo shows just how strong hard plastic has become especially for items produced by kokomold it pains me that bertoia misidentified the maker as rosbro the last photo shows one of the many folk art items in the auction created by jack roads jack who died in 2019 was a sacramento area art professor and creator extraordinaire who i was lucky to know for many years i bought one of his skittle sets a better one than in the auction in my opinion from his estate for 500 i wasn t surprised that many of his items did so well vintage saalfield halloween game halloween party pin the eyes on jol january 21 2026 this is one of the earliest commercially produced halloween games saalfield issued this version featuring a large muslin board soon after its copyright date of 1907 they later issued a version printed on low grade paper stock either version complete is a real find but as you can see collectors will still spend not insignificant dollars to add partial examples to their collections tags saalfield vintage halloween c1920 black owl moon candy holder e rosen co ex carpentier january 14 2026 i recently returned from a vacation i saw this listing and couldn t recall if i had an example or not in the collection so i placed a mildly aggressive bid and was one of the underbidders i checked the cabinet when i returned home and discovered i didn t have that design who knows when this quite rare and desirable rosen candy holder design will next hit the market tags rosen vintage 1930s halloween pulp laughing cats rare factory photo candy container january 14 2026 this fascinating listing shed light on how some pulp cat lanterns were produced i never pictured them in my mind as being created upside down halloween related vintage photographs have done well over the last few years tags photo rare german vintage halloween diecut orange black pumpkin head man boy 5 january 1 2026 it is refreshing to see such a rare item on ebay at this time of year when pickings are mighty slim this diecut is i feel one of the designs originally exported only to canada in 1935 and is exceedingly rare the one shown on page 171 is from another collection i only acquired one for the collection sometime around 2018 thirty long years after i began collecting the one up on ebay now is faded and has several condition issues but when might you see one again this is a time when rarity overtakes condition i feel this little gem is worth north of 500 tags german diecut diecut germany original vintage luhrs halloween diecut up scat cat band guitar player 8 75 december 13 2025 this is not a vintage item it was produced in 2003 under license from beistle by a now defunct party goods manufacturer see page 154 for more information it has little collectible value tags repro reproduction vintage 1929 hallmark halloween invitation bats black cat owl december 13 2025 when i first saw this listing i was immediately enthralled i knew it was a previously unknown invitation produced by hallmark and i wanted it however my enthusiasm dimmed when i saw its condition although sometimes there is a true trade off between condition and scarcity i felt this was too badly compromised to add to the collection given that it sold for next to nothing i probably should have placed a low bid because of its rarity it probably would have become a permanent place holder tags hallmark older posts welcome bat 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