Holiday Auction

On September 11, 2010 Morphy Auctions is having an auction of rare vintage Holiday collectibles.  I've never seen many of these items.  Even if you are not planning on bidding, it's a lot of fun to look at this amazing collection!  

Morphy Holiday Auction - Online Catalog

Halloween Chalkware Guy

I sold this little guy on ebay several years ago.  It's one of the best, and largest, Halloween chalkware pieces.

1954 Woolworth's Halloween Ad

Click to see the large version, it's a fantastic ad.

1950s Halloween Hard Plastic Party People

E Rosen Company - rare 1950s Halloween "Party-goers". These are made of hard plastic and were originally candy containers.

Vintage Ceramic Ghost

A very large older ceramic ghost - it's eyes and mouth light up, it looks great at night.  Purchased in the 1990s at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, CA.

How To Run a 1946 Halloween Party

Vintage double sided Party Favor Cup

Vintage Cardboard favor cup.  I love the "ghost" at the top of the piece.

Owl Tell Your Fortune

GREAT design for a vintage Halloween Fortune Telling game, and much safer than baking those sizzling hot metal  charms into a cake!

Halloween Midnite Spook Party

Wonderful vintage ad for a Midnight Halloween Spook Show

Halloween Dancers A Go Go

As often happens with vintage Halloween, the packaging is as much fun, and sometimes better than the decorations themselves.  The Halloween A Go Go Beistle dancers above have "Swingin' Watusi Action"!  Groovy!

Ted Kennedy in a Pirate Costume - Halloween 1934

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Vintage Halloween Photo

Wax Lips Vintage packaging

 

I clearly remember the Clown Mouth wax chewing gum lips packaging. Classic!

Spooky Surprise Vintage Halloween Candy

Fleer's Haunted House Candy Maze

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The Laboratory of Satan

1870's Stereoview - 1/2 of the image is above.  If you have an old pair of the red/blue 3-D glasses lying around, check the version of this below.  The 3-D effect and depth of the photo is AMAZING.  Either image can be clicked to view a larger version.

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Halloween Pumpkins by Noma

Box Cover Art for the 1950s hard plastic version of the Noma Pumpkin lights.  These had a flying witch graphic on the back of each pumpkin.  The original 1920s celluloid Noma pumpkins had similar faces, but were much nicer, very detailed, and extremely fragile.

Click any image for a larger view.

The two photos above are the hard plastic 1950s version of the lights.  Below are the 1920s Celluloid lights, the first electrically lit Halloween decorations.

Vintage Halloween Magic Show Poster

Another poster from my Magic/Halloween/Spookshow collection.

Winged Beistle Ghost

One of my favorite early diecuts by the Beistle Company.  It has tissue "wings" that fold out.  the example seen above is a scan of it's body, modified in Photoshop.

Vintage Halloween - E Rosen Lollipop Holder

Love this great black cat Halloween image.