Vintage Halloween 1930s Beistle Black Cat Band Hat

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.