Take a look at these...I officially have a bunch of little pumpkin plants growing! Now if I can only keep the little monsters in my yard from eating them (this means you chipmunks, groundhogs, deer, and squirrels...I've got my eyes on you).
I already lost one pumpkin mound to the chipmunks. I was doing some research, and I heard that people have had luck protecting their pumpkin plants by soaking crushed red pepper flake in a liter of water for a week, straining it, and spraying the pumpkin plants. I'm also covering them at night. Next week, I will plant some more pumpkin mounds, and will hopefully be looking at a nice little pumpkin patch come fall.
I've got the craziest prices in town! You want something rare and hard to find...I'll sell it to you for a bargain! You want to pay through your nose and spend like there's no tomorrow?!? We can do that too. My Prices are CRAZY!!!
That's what I'd say if I was talking like Crazy Eddy at Crazy Eddy's Vintage Halloween and Monster toy shop (If there was such a person and place). Lately, I've seen some pieces go from one end of the spectrum to the other. I'll give you a couple examples here:
The first example of crazy prices are the cool tin Jack-O-Lantern candy containers that were made by U.S. Metal Toy MFG. from the 1950's. These awesome lithographed guys use to get fairly good prices, but lately have been selling pretty cheap (along with other tin Halloween toys like noisemakers). This example was missing the original wire handle, but did have the hard to find nose whistle. It sold for $88 (which included the shipping). I've seen comparable pieces sell for $150+.
The next example is a vintage monster toy that I thought was very cool, and fit well with a lot of vintage Halloween Toys. This item was called "The Ghouliville Bat", and was made by the Marchon company in 1986. Less then a year ago, I saw a pair of these sell online for $30 (which included the shipping cost...the two handsome bats are on the left side of the picture). I wanted to add one to my collection, and one popped up last week online. I had a low down dirty feeling it was going to sell for more than $30, and it did. How much? Try $112 (pictured on the right side of the picture frame).
This piece is fairly tough to come by, but I was stunned to see bidders go that high on that item. I've seen another one sell in the past year for $40, so this was an example of how two or three bidders showed little restraint, and went Crazy on the bidding. If you averaged the prices out based on 4 examples that sold in the past year or so, I would value this item at between $45-$50. Unless I owned a couple of off shore oil drilling platforms or won the lottery, there is no way I would have paid $112 for this Ghouliville Bat (as cool as it is).
Crazy! That's all I can say.
I was very happy to add another cool Halloween candy pail to my collection. This is a Frankenstein candy pail that was made by Sideshow Collectibles in 1999. This pail is fairly difficult to find, and I need to contact Sideshow to see how many were made. This one even has the original tag on it. Now this isn't as cool as the Frankenstein Pail made by Clinton Toys, but I still it think it looks great. I'm starting to build a nice collection of vintage Halloween pails/buckets, so I may be adding a new page in the future.
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