Glenn Strange Candy bucket Question

[Toy Ranch]

What I want to know is where do I get one of those rubber skulls with the wings attached.

I have one, but you can't have it!  It is a 90's item. Should not be too expensive or hard to find, but very cool.

[horror1o1]

I wouldn't paint a $600 piece like the Glen Strange Bucket, but it might be cool to paint one of those Jack-O-lanterns (Like the ones that are now selling at Walmart) with Glow-in-the dark paint.

I wouldn't either but i have seen a a couple examples a while back where someone tryed to touch one up and it looked horrible. Probally a kid back in the day but still bad.

[Monsters For Sale]

Another bucket just sold for $698.00.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/FRANKENSTEIN-HALLOWEEN-CANDY-BUCKET-GLENN-STRANGE-1962-HEAD-RARE-/150922422724?ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBUAA:US:3160

I was talking to the seller about his 1962 date.  He informed me that it was his uncle's.  And that his mother bought it for him at a drug store in October of 1962 - for 59 cents!

Nice little turn around.

[Neoplastic]

That seemed like a reasonable price for a bucket in that condition, it looked near mint condition. 

[horror1o1]

That seemed like a reasonable price for a bucket in that condition, it looked near mint condition.

Ya i was eyeballing it for a while but i think the price is right for it. Do think it could have gone cheaper if the bid war didn't start so early. i mean it was at $670 i believe for days and only went up $28 dollars.

[ilikemonsters]

Wow it came from an original owner!
Best one I've seen yet!
I noticed a bidder with a zero rating won it, well done new bidder!

[raycastile]

That was one of the best buckets I've seen, if not the best. If I had not bought so much other junk in the last six weeks, I would have taken a serious stab at that bucket.

[horror1o1]

That was one of the best buckets I've seen, if not the best. If I had not bought so much other junk in the last six weeks, I would have taken a serious stab at that bucket.

Best i had ever seen. That was the strangest bidding i've seen on a item in a while though.lol!

[darkmonkeygod]

That looks to be in once in a lifetime (well, twice if you were there when it came out) condition. I completely missed this auction. Amazing to see.

[Monster Bob]

Something is fishy here. Both the bucket and the head speaker in the auction have absolutely no nose tip wear, which happened to these from moving in the shipping box. The speaker looks unnaturally fresh in the paint department, all over it. No nose wear, no hair wear whatsoever. I smell repaint or touch up at some point in time on these.

[ilikemonsters]

What speaker do you speak of?

[Monster Bob]

The one in the auction pics. I am guessing it is one of the resin repops. Many years ago, I painted many of these for people, in a paint scheme identical to a real speaker. That could be one I did; It looks too perfect to be vintage to my eye, loose especially.

And as far as the bucket's paint, I have had and sold MANY Frankenstein buckets in the past, most being mint/unused right out of the shipping box. They all had the box-nose tip 'rub'. I would bet that when these originally made, the heads were stuck in boxes and shipped before the paint was fully cured.
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[ilikemonsters]

I didn't scroll down to the last pic. I did not realize that a hard core collector inherited such a perfect example from an uncle who I guess never used it when he got it as a child.
I know I would have used that as my bucket if I got one, and if I used it It certainly wouldn't be in that shape!
Of coarse, maybe he opted for the pillow case, did they do that in the early sixties?

[Hepcat]

Yes. Pillow cases were used by hardcore trick or treaters in the early sixties. They held up better than shopping bags in the rain.

[ilikemonsters]

So, if your mom bought you a Frankenstein bucket for Halloween would you have opted for the pillow case or used the bucket ?