Antique Halloween Witch Postcard

Just a classic Halloween witch image, circa 1910, 

to wrap up this year's October posts.

 

Happy Halloween everyone!

 

 

 

Halloween Fortune Telling Cake Charm Set

These fortune telling charms were typically hidden in slices of cake at parties and were a favorite Victorian holiday custom; this set is circa the 1940s. If the recipient managed to not swallow the charm, they could look up its fortune on the enclosed sheet. The thimble meant you'd be an old maid, the button indicated a bachelor was looking for you, and the baby predicted...well, babies.

 

These charms look like they've seen a lot of cakes.

1920s Halloween Nut Cup

This delicate paper nut cup was made in the 1920s.

About 3 inches tall, it features beautiful lithography,

and was one item in a set of party supplies featuring this fairy design.

Halloween Spooks Postcard, 1910

"I'm not afraid of Spooks, are you?

I'm just pretending they are true."

"Can you pretend?"

1920s Halloween Silhouette Lantern

Here's another amazing survivor of Halloweens past: this cardboard and tissue paper lantern. Made in the 1920s, it was intended to hold a real candle inside, just like the papier mache and pulp jack o' lanterns posted earlier. This one was used, but somehow managed to not burst into flames.

 

 

These lanterns have recently been reproduced, like so much other antique Halloween, so collect carefully.