Ghost in the Cemetery

 Happy Halloween everyone!!

http://www.wordcraft.net/ghosts1.html

Halloween Museum

This site has an online museum of  Halloween items. http://www.castlehalloween.com/photogallery.php

Antique Halloween Decorations

This company, Beistle, started in 1900. They are still in business today. They manufactured great Halloween graphics. The link has an article about them and then a link below the article to the present company.

http://www.spookshows.com/beistle/beistle.htm

Winterthur Museum

Family home of the DuPonts is a museum. Check out their collections: http://www.winterthur.org/?p=362

Campbell Collection of Soup Tureens

When we first saw this we thought the soup company? The chairman of the company started collecting soup tureens in 1966. They are now on display at the Winterthur Museum. http://www.winterthur.org/?p=363

Meriden Flint Glass Company

The Meriden Flint Glass Company was in business in Connecticut from 1876-1888. The link to the website tells us that even though they were in business for a short period of time they made an impact on the world of glass. www.meridenflintglass.com.

Connecticut Historical Society eMuseum

Here you can search through over 8,000 objects from the Connecticut Historical Society collection, including clothing, furniture, weapons, needlework, tools, household objects, photographs, paintings, prints, drawings, and more.

http://emuseum.chs.org:8080/emuseum/

Cigar Factory Reader

This photo shows a reader in a cigar factory. If you scroll down you can read the info submitted by Cigar Historian. Interesting history on what a reader was and cigar factories in general.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/1440

The Museum of Connecticut Glass

The Museum of Connecticut is exhibiting, preserving, researching and educating about the many glass factories that called Connecticut home. Among the companies are Meriden and Pitkin. http://www.glassmuseum.org/index.htm

Mt. Washington and Pairpoint Glass Society

From their webpage "The Mt. Washington and Pairpoint Glass Society focuses on Mt. Washington Glassworks and its sucessors, the Pairpoint Companies who began manufacturing fine art glass in the 
mid-19th century". There are picture galleries that can be view. Wonderful glass! http://mwpgs.org/

More Glass Pumpkins

On Oct 26 the Sandwich Glass Museum will be having it's 2nd Pumpkin Fest. I saw one or two I think would look good in my house!

http://www.sandwichglassmuseum.org/events.php?pgID=17

Halloween Postcards

Awhile back we were shopping at a local antique store and there was a decoupage tray for sale with about 20 Halloween postcards on it. I stood there for about 15 minutes trying to figure out if I bought it how would I get the postcards off the tray. I decided it was more work than I wanted to do. I am sure that the trendy looking space owner thought she was making a wonderful item using those cards. She would have made more by selling the cards individually. Anyway, here is a link to Halloween postcards from the early 20th century.
http://antiques.about.com/od/collectingbookspaper/ig/Halloween-Postcard-Gallery/Romantic-Halloween-Greeting.htm

Extreme pumpkins? Who knew?

Warning adult content.
http://www.extremepumpkins.com/pumgivbir.html

This one is my favorite: 
http://www.dudelol.com/pumpkin-giving-birth

Haunted Collectibles

This is a fun read!

http://antiques.about.com/cs/holiday/a/aa102203.htm

Ice Skater Club

From their webpage: " The Antique Ice Skate Club was established in 2000. The club was formed to allow  collectors and lovers of the history of ice skating to share knowledge, learn from each other and collect memories." http://antiqueiceskateclub.com/

Got my skates ready! It was 33 here during our morning walk. Brrr.

How do you make the world's largest glass pumpkin?

http://www.cmog.org/video/hq-version-how-do-you-make-worlds-largest-blown-glass-pumpkin

Antique Desk Made In Germany

Wow, so many cubby holes and secret compartments!

The Rushlight Club

From their webpage:  "The Rushlight Club, founded in 1932 for the study and preservation of LIGHTING, is one of the oldest organizations dedicated to a single aspect of material culture.  The collecting and researching interests of members range from the earliest primitive lighting devices through lighting by gas and electricity." http://www.rushlight.org/

We attended an Aladdin lamp convention a few years ago. There was a representative from the Rushlight Club there. He lived in Washington D.C. in an historic home that had working gas lights.

Coleman Lamps

This site is about Coleman lamps. Members collect, restore and preserve the lamps. Their next convention will be in Michigan on July 26, 27, 28, 2014 http://www.internationalcolemancollectors.com/