Hoppin’ Into the Spirit of Easter Collectibles

All-out decorating for Easter is starting to play catch-up to Christmas decorating. Yep. It’s an egg-cellent way to welcome Spring. Easter egg lights, bunny-themed pictures, figurines, cards, candles, bunny salt-and-pepper shakers … it’s all out there. In the late 1890s, Easter cards, postcards and décor gained in popularity. The common theme is renewal, symbolizing the […]

Hippity Hop Hop! Vintage Easter Postcards 

In the late 1890s, some 50 years after Christmas cards gained popularity, Easter cards and postcards started attracting attention with their themes of rebirth, chickens, eggs, rabbits, children, birds, flowers and religious subjects. Victorian-era postcards often feature newly hatched chicks, children and women dressed in Easter Sunday finery. The heyday of lithographed and colorful Easter […]

Easter: A “Hoppy” Time of Renewal, Family

Easter observances began hundreds of years ago to commemorate the rising of Jesus Christ from the dead, its associated spiritual renewal and a celebration of spring’s arrival. In the 18th century, the Easter egg, a symbol of eternal life, became part of the celebration. As years passed, cardboard and papier-mâché eggs were used, then real […]

Other Holidays

One can never tire of Christmas and Valentine’s Day, but there are other holidays, each inspiring its own range of collectibles. Today collectors look for collectibles from Halloween (candy holders, costumes, masks, decorations, jack-o-lanterns) and Easter (eggs, papier-mâché bunnies, candy containers), as well as Thanksgiving decorations, Fourth of July postcards, and hundreds of other holiday-related […]

Toys

Toys can often tell you when and where they were made. A recent sale of Easter toys included a tin rabbit that was marked “Germany … Made in U.S. Zone.” Country names in the marks on toys, figurines, dishes and other collectibles may tell the exact time the piece was made because boundaries and names […]