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Vintage Halloween Store
featuring old-fashioned Halloween items from vintage style chenille figures to cutout
ornaments and cards to our signature noisemaker rattles--they're
Spooktacular! Lots of great items for your Halloween parties and your tricksters
and spooksters! (For Vintage Party
items in other holiday themes: Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, 4th of July, Thanksgiving,
Christmas, New Year's
and more, check out The Vintage Party.)
Vintage Halloween Collectibles: Post Cards
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Halloween postcards are one of the most collectible Halloween items. Most used wonderfully
illustrated
scenes of festivities on Halloween including bobbing for apples, fortune games, witches, pumpkins,
veggie people, and cats.
Some of the more popular postcards are those signed by the artist--such as Clapsaddle and
Brundage cards. Postcards, the precursor of the standard modern greeting card, were prolific for Halloween beginning in
the late
1800s. Generally, these can be found for as little as $10.00 to $20.00 on up to several hundred dollars for rarer
cards--especially those that are mint and unused.
Some become very collectible too because of the writing on the back of the postcards. I have one that is clever in that
it is reminiscent of Halloween activities addressed to a "Master Bruce Pember":
"Dear Bruce,
Will write you a card so you will get it in time for Hallowe'en. We are going to a party. Why don't mamma write. I hope
your Papa is well now. Don't do any Hallowe'en pranks.
Lovingly,
Aunt Anna"
Some fun sayings from vintage postcards:
"May the witch, which here is seen bring you a bird of a Halloween."
Beware! The time is here in which the witches do appear."
"Hold your candle steady And keep a sharp lookout For back among the shadows
You'll see goblins peeping out."
"May jack-o-lanterns burning bright. Of soft and golden hue. Pierce through the Future's
veil and show What fate now holds for you."
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