Halloween Trades
For some background behind Craw-Bogle Trader and vintage Halloween collectible trades – as discussed in the back pages of The Halloween Retrospect, Volume 1, over the last decade this collector began detaching, as both vendor and vendee, from the inflation hype of the second-hand market for vintage Halloween collectibles. Instead, that same time period has been driven more by personal connections among those interested in trade options. In this way I honor my early beginnings as scrappy and budgeted collector, and hopefully help others continue to capture the modest gifts of olde Hallowe’en.
Thank you for your interest in trading with Craw-Bogle Trader, and for your patience as the process and content for this website develops over time. I might direct you to some of the other pages to learn more about Reference for books and blogs about vintage Halloween collectibles. Currently available trades are listed in the Gallery.
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FAQ
What is currently available to trade?
The website Gallery contains items currently available for trade consideration. On this site the focus is vintage merchandise of Halloween predominantly 1900-1979. As well, there may be some opportunity for catalog trades as discussed on a companion site The Halloween Retrospect Collections Trades page.
Please note – there is no rush in any transaction as this is the nature of working on a trade proposal. If you express interest in an item with a serious inquiry, you are given every consideration in the order the trade proposal was received.
Is trade the only option? Why?
At this time trade is the foremost option because the collector has moved toward such methods in an effort to swap extras between modest-budget collectors avoiding the side effects of market hype and reseller activities. That is to say, while everyone may do a bit of resale here and there as necessary to build a collection, the preferred audience here is on modest-budget collection-builders rather than those seeking turnover stock for the next big spender.
What makes an acceptable trade item?
An ideal trade offers both parties something new to their collection, perhaps both generating something unique from an unnecessary duplicate. THR is interested in items that could fill a gap in a set – such as – title for nearly similar title, era for nearly similar era, content for nearly similar content, etc.
As one example, Dennison’s Bogie Book from 1919 would seem to be a perfect trade for another Bogie Book from the 1910’s. In another example, you have a vintage catalog with Halloween but would prefer a vintage catalog with Christmas. And so on and so forth….
How is a trade initiated? How do I get more info on an item?
if you are interested in any of the gallery items shown here, and would like more details, because you have (a) trade item(s) for consideration then contact the trader with your proposal. See also: What makes an acceptable trade item?
Please note – there is no rush in any transaction as this is the nature of working on a trade proposal. If you express interest in an item with a serious inquiry, you are given every consideration in the order the trade proposal was received.
How is a trade enacted? What is your transaction history?
This collector has bought and sold vintage Halloween on eBay and Etsy with a total of nearly 2000 with positive feedback. As mentioned too, this collector has traded with connections on social platforms. If you prefer to use one of those platforms for a mutual purchase, that would seem a good way to insure the transaction.
THe Halloween Retrospect
Archive Library Trades
Over time, the sister site for vintage research, The Halloween Retrospect archive library, reviews its stock of publication materials to determine when certain items require removal from shelf inventory (falling outside of scope, existing as duplicates, etc.). However, these may be important to another individual or group (even those that may be interested in content other than Halloween), thus THR would like to find another home for such information objects that they may lend to research collections elsewhere.
Over vVisit The Halloween Retrospect’s Trades page to view vintage paperback catalogs now available such as those shown in the above image.
