Your Oldest Monster Collectible

[MadCow]

I guess the oldest piece in my collection, by default, would have to be the PROP CARD from the Frankenstein Card Set.  Even though the product is fairly recent, the wire is from the classic KARLOFF film.  Baring that, my next oldest piece is the PHOTO PLAY Edition of DRACULA.  Peace.

Oh wow, nice! That Prop card is another one of my "most wanted" things for a while now. I've busted quite a few boxes trying to get one. No luck...

Did you pull it from a pack?

[BlackLagoon]

Though they are not all that old in the grand scheme of things. I have a Remco glow in the dark Dracula and Creature, both in pretty beat up shape and most my most favirote figures in my entire collection.

[raycastile]

I guess my FM#1 is the oldest piece in my collection.  I have some early Keith Ward Topstone masks that might be 50s, but I have no way to know for sure.  For obvious reasons, most of my collection is 60s/70s.

[greenpricklemonster]

Though they are not all that old in the grand scheme of things. I have a Remco glow in the dark Dracula and Creature, both in pretty beat up shape and most my most favirote figures in my entire collection.

I too, still have my old Remco monsters ,, once ordered from out of the JC Penny catalog in 1980 .
These just happen to be my oldest collectable's too -next to that bendy villian from Bullwinkle.' I have no idea just how I obtained him. But he's dated 1972. Next to that is just one of those tiny whine-up robots, that most had probably had at one time.




Also had the cool card board 'carry along castle' that went with these Remco monster figure's,,but I suppose that thing got lost back then.
There were two others in this set 'which I never got to own', those guy's are..
-Frank and The Wolfman- .

[lblambert]

mine is this 1939 playbill from Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men signed by Lon Chaney Jr & Wally Ford

[hammett1]

Fantastic piece.  Thank you for posting the picture. Peace.

[hedorah59]

Non Paper would have to be an Aurora Hunchback.

Paper would be one of my 50's lobby cards - I have many different movies, some in better shape than others.

[thelatewinslowleach]

My oldest paper collectible is a near complete window card for the 1943 "Phantom of the Opera." How I got this is a cool story. Back in the 1970s, I was growing up in a small town in very rural Virginia. My Dad liked to take me with him to explore old abandoned farm houses, which is something I would not advise to do today.
We used to find old bottles, old books, even antique mirrors, and once a stand up Victrola  that would make Quentin Collins envious. I spotted this poster, being a window card printed on cardboard, actually being used like insulation in the kitchen wall. While there is a rather small tear in the solid yellow border area, its basically not only intact, but the colors are still really vibrant! Eventually, I framed it and its in my "Monster Stairwell." Its the best original Universal promotional item I have. Its looks similar to the one in "Graven Images."

My oldest toy may be the Frankenstein with the troll body, which my mom gave me in either a Christmas stocking or an Easter basket as a kid.

Michael

[hammett1]

I spotted this poster, being a window card printed on cardboard, actually being used like insulation in the kitchen wall. While there is a rather small tear in the solid yellow border area, its basically not only intact, but the colors are still really vibrant!

Michael

Hi Michael, Great find and it reminds me of the incident that occurred up north somewhere, where a new home owner was re-modeling the old house he just purchased and removing the plaster from the walls he discovered 100's or maybe 1,000's of old movie posters from the 1920's and 1930's. Many still looked as if they were just printed.  Paid for his house and remodel.  Myself, I discovered a number of old COLOR Sunday comic sections from the 1930's used as insulation when I removed an old window from my house when I lived up north.  Ya never know what you will find.  David

[HARRY HAMMOCK]

   May have already shown this,but my first monster mag.

[The Phantom Creep]

Probably my oldest horror related paper item would have to be what is supposed to be an original ticket to White Zombie. This is a very odd item. It's from a theater in a very small town here in Georgia. When I bought the ticket the seller also sent me a photo of the theater from around that time. Since the ticket is not dated I kept pestering her about details of where it came from. She found it at an estate sale and ended up sending me a stack of other paper stuff she found with it. It all dated from around '32. The ticket prices on the back of the ticket also reflect the average ticket price during the depression. Actually the average price in big cities was around .25 for an adult admission but in smaller towns such as this one it was lower.

This is still a very strange item to me. It's definitely old paper, more like an old photograph. I've never seen anything like it for another movie. It doesn't seem like a theater in a small town, especially during the depression, would print up something like this.

It measures 2 1/2" x 3".

[NekroDave]

Just got these this week, but thought that they were more appropriate to this thread than the "weekly finds" one.

On the left, a 1938 Ogden's cigarette card featuring Boris Karloff as himself in the insert and of course as Ardeth Bey from The Mummy. I'd be curious to know if there is an older monster collectible that isn't shilling for an actively playing movie? Of course, there are posters and stuff, but this isn't designed to fill seats in a theater, y'know? It was made for it's own sake. I got the entire set of 50 which also features other monster related stars such as Elsa Lanchester, Charles Laughton and Ernest Thesiger, but this is the only one that references a monster movie openly and directly.

Anyway, on the right, this may not even be technically considered a true "monster collectible" since it doesn't show or mention any monsters, but I think it's great regardless. A 1931 weight machine card featuring Fay Wray. I'd never even heard of weight machine cards before discovering this one, but I think the concept is great. And I sort of even like that it pre-dates Kong. And I like that the fortune on the back says I have good taste. 

[darkmonkeygod]

Glad you picked these up Dave, they are very cool. Had never seen the back of the Ogden's card, thanks for posting.