Easter Antiques

Video Transcript

"So, when you're talking about seasonal collecting there's an array of different holidays you can collect in. This is just a very small sampling of Easter holiday here. You can find these eggs, and these are later eggs, but they date back to the turn of the century. And they are really colorful and a lot of fun to collect, most are German, they open up on the inside, and they have your treats. You can see some of these are dated on the inside, they'll say Germany, but they have this nice decoration on this inside and this is where they store their candy so the Easter eggs are kind a fun thing people like to collect, just Easter eggs. You can find Easter eggs not only in just paper you'll find them in porcelain, decorated, hand painted on the front. They usually say Happy Easter and you'll see some kind of decoration, filigree on it. So that's one example. Another thing people like to collect are these rabbits. This is a really nice example of an early 1900's rabbit. And as you can see his ears are pretty delicate there are just kind of just inside there to stay in and they have, he has actually glass eyes and very narrow feet. But you can see underneath this little plug, this plug is where they pull out the plug and put the candy inside. They didn't get very much candy at the turn of the century. So, this is a very nice example of a turn of the century Easter candy container. A few other examples that we have here are this with glass eyes, upright position, you'll see this a lot out of this composition and they head actually removes. His head will come off and inside is your, where you store your candy. A lot of them are stamped on the bottom and dated, or not dated but stamped Germany or wherever country of origin. So, this is another example of a composition rabbit candy container. And then we have another one, there's a whole series of these in sizes large and small. This one says US, Germany, on it, this is right around the second World War so that helps you to date this rabbit, but this is another one where you pulled off the inside and underneath was your candy. They come in mother and father, mom and pop type, grandma's and the children. They come in different sizes, very tall to very small so, this is just a little sample of what you can collect during the holiday."