Vintage Halloween Postcard - Witch's Dance

The Witches dance, the hoot owl screams, they bid you joy on Halloween! Hope you like this bright card with dancing pumpkin people and a pretty witch!

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Vintage French Soap Label

French soap labels were commonly printed by lithography that was popular from the early 1900s to 1950. I love framing them for bathroom decor. Hope you like this one!

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Vintage Halloween Postcard - Merry Halloween!

I'm really not sure what this little witch is doing. I think she's bathing in a pumpkin tureen full of soup! Whatever, she's cute!! Hope you like this one.

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Victorian Scrap - Ladies and Roses

I made a little collage sheet for you today with some late 1800 ladies, and roses. Scrapbooks were popular in the late Victorian era into the early 1900s. Germany was a huge supplier of beautifully printed, embossed scrap pages that were sold in stationery shops. The pieces were attached by thin strips of paper to make them easy to cut out. The bits were glued into large books. There are lots of old scrapbooks for sale on Ebay if you'd ever like to see what they looked like!

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Vintage Halloween Postcard - Husband Conjuring

A beautiful lady wistfully gazes at her future husband's face on Halloween. Hope he's a nice guy!

I love the traces of glitter left on the card. The old glitter used to be silver and tarnished easily. If you look closely there is one area of glitter that isn't tarnished and might be what the original used to look like!

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Ellen Clapsaddle Halloween Girl

I'm in full Halloween mode. I'm sorry!!! The end of August comes around and I become fully obsessed. This little Halloween girl is one of the more rare Ellen Clapsaddle postcards. She shows up, but not as often her other Halloween kids. I love the apples on strings, and the pumpkin face!

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Vintage Halloween Postcard - Flying Pumpkins!

Ghosty jack o lanterns on flying black cats, watch out!?! This bright, embossed postcard was published by Barton and Spooner in the early 1900s. I didn't know anything about this company, but I found out:

The company was established in 1892 by the craftsman, Harry L. Barton who manufactured wooden souvenirs. After the turn of the 20th century he took on Ralph Spooner as a partner in order to expand into commercial and art printing. They opened a factory together at 1133 Broadway in New York City. Though they printed calendars, maps and other goods there, most of their postcards were printed in Germany.

They published mostly monotone regional postcards but ventured out into some cool Halloween images as well.
(source: http://www.metropostcard.com/publishersb1.html)

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