If you’ve been waiting to get a nearly complete early Beistle Complete Party Outfit - this is your chance. As this wonderful seller says in the listing, I personally examined this. I was blown away by the condition. It seems that the original buyer used and discarded the lampshades then stored everything else away not to see the light of day for 100 years. This is a notoriously difficult set to complete. Interestingly, the shades are perhaps the easiest elements to find. The seller is a personal friend. She’s been in the vintage Halloween collecting field nearly as long as I have and is quite knowledgeable. She is eminently trustworthy. As I type this, the price is already at $1500. Given the quality and rarity - there is plenty of room to run!
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Rare Antique Halloween Party Outfit Game Beistle Die Cut Decorations Witches
This sure is a rare set of early Beistle items. This was the first Complete Party Outfit Beistle produced. The year was 1918. There are a few scattered items that don’t belong to the set: the skeleton and the small orange and black diecuts produced by Hallmark. The large JOLs are especially hard-to-find components of this earliest of sets. It is too bad the box is so thrashed. It’ll be fun to see where this set ends in this era of WTF prices for paper items.
06/23 Update: This brought $1,025!
