This is a great, vintage item in better-than-usual condition. The B-I-N price is too aggressive, though. I would guide this valuation to between $2,000-2,300.
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Vintage RARE Halloween Haunted House Plastic Blow Mold Decoration
This is arguably the coolest of the vintage blowmold light-ups manufactured. I love the sharp angles and skewed perspective, wholly apropos of the mood to be conveyed when using this. I am glad to see it brought a relatively strong price of $62.
Beistle Witches Cauldron Halloween Centerpiece As Is for Parts
This is a great deal!
VERY FINE Vintage BEISTLE Halloween WITCH MYSTERY ANSWER GAME
I think this result is instructive in illuminating just how strong the secondary market is for truly vintage Beistle items. Even in its relatively poor condition, this game still managed to fetch a price of $228.49. Pretty amazing!
Antique 20s Kirchhof Halloween Party Tin Litho Black Cat Witch Rattle
I think this noisemaker employs some of the best imagery Kirchhof ever used. This noisemaker must have been popular since it was made for decades and in at least three different color variations. Contrary to this fine seller's assertion, this particular example was made in the 1950s. What is the immediate tip-off? It is marked "Life of the Party," a tag-line Kirchhof only used then.
LARGE German Pumpkin Boy Die Cut
This is one of (I believe) four of a fiendishly difficult set to complete. I've been looking to complete my set for two decades! I have this one already plus the saxophone player. It'll be fun to see what this example brings.
vintage halloween pressed diecut embossed pumkin heads, owl and cat
What a great assortment of harder-to-find German diecuts! The cat and the clown are less common than the owl and the witch. All look to be in super shape. The seller probably doesn't know that to maximize value these should have been sold separately. This may be a rare opportunity to get a deal.
HALLOWEEN VINTAGE SKELETON EMBOSSED DIE CUT DECORATION
This appears to be a remnant.
HALLOWEEN METAL RED DEVIL FACE LICENSE PLATE ATTACHMENT
I've seen these nicely designed license plate attachments only a handful of times over the years. I like the two-toned paint and the yellow eyes on this particular item.
Germany Halloween Tea Set JOL Pumpkin Teapot Cups Saucers Cream Sugar
These are all great items (especially the small cups and saucers) and appropriately marked, but the opening price is already a fully valued number. I think the seller is making an error starting so high as that price will engender few bids. Why not start the lot at $500 and let the vagaries of the auction setting determine the price?
5 Paper Mache Pulp Pumpkin Jack O Lantern Nut Cups with Liners
Again, great items but the starting price is much too high.
Early GERMANY? vintage 1920s MECHANICAL die-cut HALLOWEEN clown
The four pieces to this set were all sold together. I have several wholesaler catalogs that show the set, which were made in the USA sometime well before 1920. The others in this set: a witch, a black cat and a girl running clutching a JOL all have a mechanical feature. This vampire clown, though, is an outlier relative to its design. Whereas the others are fairly tame designs, this one is wacky, odd and definitely a product of a fevered imagination. (It is almost as if the designer took something to prompt such an "out there" product.)
1940-50 HALLOWEEN BIG 18" BLACK CAT & MOON BEISTLE DECORATION
I have never seen this large and imposing diecut in perfect condition. The ends of the "fence" are always either bent or missing. Given that fact, this example is perhaps the best I have ever seen of this super Beistle product made from 1949-1953.
VINTAGE BEISTLE HALLOWEEN PARTY TABLE DECORATIONS
This early set, originally issued in 1918, is almost never seen in its enveloped iteration. Although incomplete as to its pieces, the envelope is the real treasure here.
CRESCENT MOON & CAT HALLOWEEN DIE CUT HEAVILY EMBOSSED DECORATION ~ 1930s GERMAN
The color on this hard-to-find diecut is amazing.