By Laura Stagliola, Administrative Assistant
October 30, 2014
According to The Mark B. Ledenbach Halloween Collection at HalloweenCollector.com,
Spookville (by Whitman)… isn’t to be confused with the awesome and tear-inducingly hard-to-find six section Hobgoblinville table decoration Dennison issued in 1928 for the then-steep price of $2.00.
He continues,
This has routinely eluded by grasp for decades and now tops the list of MBL’s Holy Grails!
With the recent acquisition of the contents of the Dennison Manufacturing Company’s History Room, the Framingham History Center unearthed the Spring 1928 What’s Next? (a publication sent to Dennison dealers and retail stores) where an image of the Hobgoblinville decoration was advertised. The advertisement briefly describes the decoration:
A new Hobgoblinville cut-out is most original and attractive. This comes in three sections, and although it is illustrated below in the long panel, it must be displayed and seen complete to be appreciated fully. It would be impossible here to tell you in detail about all the new subjects of interest, and you will want to see the complete line for yourself.
While we do not have a physical cut-out of Hobgoblinville in our collection, an image of the decoration must suffice! Happy Hallowe’en!
