Vintage Halloween Collectibles Research (1900-1979)

THR Halloween Collector Guides 2nd Anniversary Review As of July 2025 (two years since THR's first book release) there are now five  guidebooks available on the subject of vintage Halloween collectibles! There are  four volumes of The Halloween Retrospect digests as well as one art survey Halloween Artifacts  and there is more material under development for the near future! Regardless of whether it is a digest or survey, all are created for Halloween collector's book shelves to offer different types of references material on the vintage Halloween market via primary sources (mainly on-hand ~635 catalogs as well as material from archives and libraries across the United States), Guidebooks for the vintage Halloween collector with a focus on vintage research through vintage sources. If catching up to The Halloween Retrospect archive library as an independent publisher, see the  Home page  (of the THR website) for an intro including two years worth o...

Vintage Halloween Collectible Guide: THR's New Visual Survey of Lanterns The Halloween Retrospect  ( see THR's bookstore on etsy here ) is pleased to announce that as of the end of September 2024 nearly 200 books by THR have sold since the first research digests arrived for sale in June 2023. Perhaps that is relatively a small number, but the archive librarian feels this ain't too shabby give the niche subject matter, and that THR (publications) is a small do-it-yourself enterprise available only via the etsy bookstore .  And, at that, most of those books were wordy research digests based on data from THR's archive library (!!!) but now, just over a year later, THR begins a splashy new series of visual survey books that are more like art-books in their presentation of vintage Halloween collectibles. That said, the content remains focused on using that archive library of catalogs, newspapers, etc., to show the market availability of the items' as seen from the vinta...

Halloween Collector Guides THR - a year in review As of late June 2024 (almost a year since the first book) there will be  three volumes  of The Halloween Retrospect  ( and a new art survey book added below as of September ) for the Halloween collector to add to their shelf of vintage references supporting that collection of visual survey books. THR is full of informative research articles that focus on certain market items as seen in the pages of various primary sources (mainly ~550 catalogs of consumer/vendor materials 1900-1979) and other archive materials across the United States (such as Framingham History Center for THR, V2 or Hallmark Archives for THR, V3 ).

UPDATE: October 17, 2025 As of Oct today THR publications have tripled since this post. The digest series (seen below) reaches 4 volumes and a new survey series Halloween Artifacts is on its second release. See current vintage Halloween collectible reference books at  Etsy THR Bookstore . Thank you! 

UPDATE: October 17, 2025 As of Oct today THR publications have tripled since this post. The digest series( seen below) reaches 4 volumes and a new survey series Halloween Artifacts is on its second release. See current vintage Halloween collectible reference books at  Etsy THR Bookstore . Thank you!