A trip to the Posties today and I thought I'd seen a ghost.
There below the Papers was a stack of plastic masks.
Dracula masks.
£2.49 each.
They're virtually doubles of a similar Drac mask I have.
You can see it here at the top of my old toy cabinet talking to a skull.
Mine was vintage already when I bought it in Whitby at the Stone House shop probably 20 years ago, if not more. I remember buying three for .... £30. I keit one and sold the others. It's the closest I've been to the quality of a Don Post mask. Somewhere in between that and Ben Cooper.
Mine looks a bit more detailed and is made of quite hard plastic. The Posty masks are flimsier but so similar.
I'll have to find mine for Halloween!
Do you own any masks?
I had many masks back in the day. Mostly the cheap plastic ones, for some reason, probably just because I liked them and they stored easily. But a couple of "full" masks from makers unknown. A whole other world, that! SFZ
ReplyDelete"Yes, we have masks..."
ReplyDelete"Well, can I see them? Can you show me the masks?""
( spot the mangled SF movie quote!)
Mine are all vacuum formed, and even at the time, they were difficult to find. In fact the best "haul" I ever got was at a Japanese goods and furniture store in Prahran in Melbourne back in the 80's.
Here's an old Moonbase post about them.
https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2023/09/birthday-ball-looeys-masque-of-red-robot.html?m=0
Speaking of movie quotes about masks, how about this classic British Horror film?
"Take them off!"