The Halloween Retrospectand Vintage Christmas 2025 As seen in this Beistle mid-century sample (above) THR’s library has ~650 merchandise catalogs helpful to those who research other product histories like Christmas, Easter, etc. Uhm, so yeah… this Christmas post is going to show a December 2025 publication date – but in actuality is being cobbled together […]
Category: Catalogs
Halloween Beyond Labels
Miniature Standees Seeking new discoveries and/or ways of looking at old data are standard methodologies here at the Halloween Retrospect archive which began studies (for THR, V1 released July 2023) with no more than 480 primary source catalogs which have since increased (as of June 2025) to about 635 . So, as one might imagine, […]
Toy Tales Spotlight
Toy Tales Collector Interview The Halloween Retrospect’s catalog collection is a market history seen through vintage pages filled of gewgaws, thingamabobs, whatchamacallits, doohickeys, and holiday curios (including my personal favorite Halloween) dating 1900 to 1979. Since the library began as a bit of a side-project as a relatively new venture built on past interests, it […]