SEPT 11 2010 MORPHY AUCTIONS HOLIDAY SALE 2010-09-11 Auction - 890 Price Results - Dan Morphy Auctions in PA
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13: Vegetable Halloween Man with Movable Glass Eyes.447: Rare German Dresden Ornament.521: Lot of 4: Cotton Batting Children.
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Denver, PA, United States
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SEPT 11 2010 MORPHY AUCTIONS HOLIDAY SALE

Dan Morphy Auctions Discovery Sales are a series of new weekly to monthly sales held on Tuesdays or Thursdays in addition to our traditional annual lineup of 5 to 6 catalog sales. These single-day, 500-lot sales feature an eclectic mix of high-quality general antiques, art and vintage collectibles. The live sales are open to the public and at our gallery, starting promptly at 10 a.m. on the designated sale day. The auctioneer sells approximately 100 lots per hour. This sale includes German Candy Containers and Lanterns, Halloween Pieces, Paper Mache Jack-O-Lanterns, Witch Figures, Halloween Die-Cuts, Halloween Noisemakers, Halloween Postcards, Composition Devil Heads, Celluloid Halloween Nodders, Die-Cut Fairy Clock, Halloween Fortune Teller Games, Halloween Vampires, Candy Containers, Witch Fire Place Screen, Plastic Halloween Decorations, Rabbit Candy Containers, German Belsnickles, Schoenhut Santa with Sleigh, Pull Toys, Christmas Tree Stand, Santa Chocolate Molds, Christmas Ornaments, Over 150 German Dresden Ornaments, Russian Dresden Ornaments, Russian Clip-On Ornaments, Cotton Christmas Ornaments, German Kugels, and many Holiday Displays, Ornaments, and Decorations.
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Halloween Foot Lantern of Substantial Size.: A highly detailed papier mache foot with a huge open grinning mouth, a large protruding nose, and individual comical faces on each toe. The paper eyes and mouth are illuminated by a candle within
0002: Halloween Foot Lantern of Substantial Size.Est. $2,500-$3,500
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Huge Roly Poly Figural Pumpkin Candy Container.: Perhaps the only known example in existence this figural Halloween piece doubles as a Roly Poly and a candy container that would hold an abundance of candy in its body. Of German manufacture, circa
0003: Huge Roly Poly Figural Pumpkin Candy Container.Est. $4,000-$6,000
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Uncle Sam Pumpkin Head Candy Container.: The body is similar in nature to the Uncle Sam mechanical bank with white pants striped in red, a blue coat, and holding a brown satchel in his right hand. Expressive pumpkin head face with huge grin
0004: Uncle Sam Pumpkin Head Candy Container.Est. $1,000-$1,500
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Gourd Headed Matronly Halloween Candy Container.: An appealing and expressive candy container featuring huge eyes and an open/closed mouth with teeth. Similar in appearance to the famed comic strip character Mama Katzenjammer this matronly woman
0006: Gourd Headed Matronly Halloween Candy Container.Est. $1,000-$1,500
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Pumpkin Headed Vegetable Man Candy Container.: A different form, comical in nature as well as appealing, this vegetable bodied man is attempting to climb to the top of a radish. Some minimal old in-painting. Size: 5 - 3/4" T.
0009: Pumpkin Headed Vegetable Man Candy Container.Est. $1,250-$1,750
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Vegetable/Fruit Male Halloween Candy Container.: A potato body with banana legs, walnut feet, carrot arms, and an apple head with a bobby policeman's hat. Overall untouched condition, bottom of foot is re-glued to wooden base. Size: 9 - 1/2" T.
0012: Vegetable/Fruit Male Halloween Candy Container.Est. $3,500-$5,500
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Vegetable Halloween Man with Movable Glass Eyes.: A vegetable man with radish arms, zucchini legs, walnut feet, and watermelon head with an expressive toothed "cheese" grin. Clockwork mechanism contained within head, activates eyes which flirt from
0013: Vegetable Halloween Man with Movable Glass Eyes.Est. $10,000-$20,000
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Cauliflower Headed Candy Container.: In the style of "Alice in Wonderland" this Halloween candy container is holding her looking glass in her right hand with a somewhat snooty look about her. Molded blue dress with white apron and
0014: Cauliflower Headed Candy Container.Est. $1,000-$1,500
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Regal Gentleman Halloween Candy Container.: Various vegetable elements used as body parts such as pickle legs, a cauliflower head, and radish arms. This respectable gentleman has chicklet teeth and is affixed to a painted wooden base. His head
0015: Regal Gentleman Halloween Candy Container.Est. $1,000-$1,500
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Pumpkin Headed Witch Lantern/Candy Container.: Normally found in a much smaller size, this huge Halloween Witch has a removable head with paper mouth and eyes which would illuminate when the candle was lit. The witch's body is the candy
0016: Pumpkin Headed Witch Lantern/Candy Container.Est. $1,500-$2,500
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Vegetable Man Candy Container/Lantern.: Most likely the only known surviving example of one of the greatest Halloween items. A typical vegetable man featuring parsnip arms, zucchini legs, potato feet, and a fruit-type head with a glass red
0017: Vegetable Man Candy Container/Lantern.Est. $5,000-$8,000
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Vegetable "Heffalump" Halloween Candy Container.: Perhaps like the famed "Heffalump" in Winnie the Pooh or maybe a Doctor Seuss like creation, this unusual vegetable animal features a zucchini nose, carrot legs, pumpkin body, apple head, and unique
0018: Vegetable "Heffalump" Halloween Candy Container.Est. $1,000-$2,000
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Bizarre Tree Trunk Halloween Lantern.: Suggestive of the apple trees from the Wizard of Oz. Elaborately detailed and painted tree stump with a large protruding nose and paper eyes and mouth. One can only think of Dorothy trying to take an
0020: Bizarre Tree Trunk Halloween Lantern.Est. $1,250-$1,750
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Pumpkin Headed Vegetable Man Candy Container.: Rare in not only form and size, this Halloween candy container features a pumpkin headed gentleman with a vegetable body attempting to climb to the top of the radish. The radish itself is a candy
0021: Pumpkin Headed Vegetable Man Candy Container.Est. $3,000-$4,000
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Vegetable Woman Halloween Candy Container.: The true epitome of a Halloween candy container. A matronly woman with a lettuce torso, pumpkin chest, parsnip arms, radish feet, and a gourd type head astride a potato while holding a sickle in her
0024: Vegetable Woman Halloween Candy Container.Est. $1,200-$1,600
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