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[esarpy1]

BTW, here's the Frank Flap from our galleries. Apparently, they were Made in Canada by the National Rubber Company Ltd.   

WOW!  A Frank Flap, too!  Cool!  Thanks for the manufacturer info!  This group is great!

[Monsters For Sale]

Here's an interesting curiosity I got on eBay:

This is a metal Printing Block for the House of Frankenstein Wax Museum at Lake George / Niagra Falls.
Judging by the 4" x 3" size, I am guessing that might have been used to print travel stickers/decals.




Here is a grayscale/colors reversed image:



Here is a smaller example of the same style Frankenstein face as used on a wooden nickle:

I am quoting a post of mine from August 2011 to help introduce my newest find.

After 2½ years I have found an example of the product of the printing block - a souvenir travel decal suitable for mounting on your bumper or inside a back window of your car.  The 3 1/8" x 3 7/8" card has a tombstone-shaped decal that extends just slightly beyond the printed area.  I've never seen another example.

Here is a large scan that can be used for producing a facsimile for the family station wagon:





If anyone out there has software for printing decals I'd appreciate 2 copies - I really would.

(No way I'm going to get the original wet.)

[Sly Wolf]

What you have here, are more likely used as a black color printing area. The problem is that You're missing other printing blocks used for other colors (red, yellow, blue, and green). That's what I'm judging based on your printing block photo and the actual old printed paper photo.

[Monsters For Sale]

What you have here, are more likely used as a black color printing area. The problem is that You're missing other printing blocks used for other colors (red, yellow, blue, and green). That's what I'm judging based on your printing block photo and the actual old printed paper photo.

No problem.  I wasn't figuring on getting a set of blocks and trying to print new images.  It's just that I found the block first - before I knew the decal existed.

Two and a half years later, I've finally found one of the 1970's decals still in its yellowed glassine envelope.

Today, such an item could be re-produced using a home computer.

[Monsters For Sale]

I also acquired this little printing block from someone who bought out the remnants of a printer's shop.  It is brass-looking metal on what is a very dense wood block.  This one was only lightly used.

It would print an oval-shaped image a hair less than 1½" tall.  I'm thinking it was used to print small stickers that were placed on souvenirs.





Any spots on the images are just dust.  The block is in terrific condition.
 

[haveapotato]

Loving the House of Frankenstein stuff.

I picked up this little gorilla/Kong figurine today for a couple bucks at an estate sale. Marked Britains Ltd, Made in England 1978. About 2.5 inches tall.

[Therin of Andor]

Found these leftover Halloween money boxes today. Each one contained two packets of small jellybeans.


Halloween money boxes by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

[BigShadow]

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[BigShadow]

Never seen this before but it really grabbed my attention at the flea market.  Looks like a knock off of Star Wars.  I see a Darth Vader, C-3PO, Chewbacca, and and R2-D2


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[billyatom]

A new edition to my collection..the pinback is 1 3/4" diameter

[Hepcat]

Cousin Harry!

[esarpy1]

Probably aren't too many of these out there?  Unusual, but not one recipe involving the Blood of anything!  Dead items yes, but NO BLOOD!!!!!

[esarpy1]

After 2½ years I have found an example of the product of the printing block - a souvenir travel decal suitable for mounting on your bumper or inside a back window of your car.  The 3 1/8" x 3 7/8" card has a tombstone-shaped decal that extends just slightly beyond the printed area.  I've never seen another example.

Very Cool!  Gonna have to get a T-shirt next time I'm up there!

[lovemymonsters]

Never seen this before but it really grabbed my attention at the flea market.  Looks like a knock off of Star Wars.  I see a Darth Vader, C-3PO, Chewbacca, and and R2-D2


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That is cool! I have one of those cases also. Got it new, I  love the images on it, how they "almost" look like the real Star Wars characters. I  used my Darth Vader case for my Star Wars figures and this one houses my Dungeons and Dragons figures. I'd have to look, but I want to say the original price sticker is on it still from Jamesway.

[esarpy1]

I found one in Auburn, MA!!!