Mel Fischer

I love your candles by the fireplace, do you know who made those? Could you post a close up picture of those so we can see some of the detail on them? Mel

Charlie, I did not think you ask you if you made those. If there is a next time I will remember. Mel

Those look to be the large Santa's Best Mickey and Minnie Mouse. I have occasionally seen replacement noses for them on eBay. Mel

Could these pages be an insert to one of the GP catalogs? I noticed they both have "Bulletin GP 5901" on the bottom like it might be both sides of a single sheet. Mel

It is somewhat difficult to tell from the small picture but it looks like it is probably the Holiday Innovations version of the Santa. That is one of two versions we do not have. As I recall they did not take all the Poloron information off the mold and they did not have their name on most of them. Holiday Innovations made the blow molds with the Poloron molds from1988-1991. Mel

I have wondered through the years where the Grand Venture "old Poloron molds" originally came from. The ones that Grand Venture had were acquired from MAC Plastics when MAC Plastics went bankrupt and one of the partners in Grand Venture purchased the company and molds. and renamed the company Falcon Plastics. Falcon Plastics was a sister company to Grand Venture and made all of the GV blow molds for them. Grand Venture never actually made any blow molds Falcon made them and GV was the sales division. If the Grand Venture candles were made from old Poloron molds then Poloron had to have made two different heights of the candle through the years because all of the Poloron candles I have seen or heard about are 38" high and the Grand Venture candles are 36" high. Mel

The snowman row consisted of 35 snowmen spaced 5' apart with no two identical ones in the row. There were a few that looked similar but were painted in different colors. Mel

You are correct, Spielbauer was a distributor. Mel

These were mainly intended for military bases, churches, municipal decorations, etc. Mel

A screenshot of an eBay auction in 2006 for a 1951 **** Wiken reindeer. Check out the price it sold for, the shipping was more then the reindeer. Mel

I found a file with a screenshot from a post made on PC back in 2009 showing a few different Mold-Craft Rudolph reindeer. There were no dates given for them or in the rest of the thread. The post was made by Bill Weis. Mel

Yes it is. Mel

They are the ones from image 2. Mel

The first Mold-Craft Reindeer sculpted by **** Wiken in 1951. The picture is from an April 4, 1951 newspaper. Mel

Mold-Craft did make both Rudolph and the antlered life size reindeer that were painted white. The faun colored Rudolph was their #52-SB and the faun colored antlered deer was their #52-A they also had antlered deer with a white flashing bulb nose #52-AB. The white painted Rudolph was their #52-SBW and the white painted antlered deer was their #52-AW. They also had the white antlered deer with a white flashing bulb nose available. The price was same for either color, the antlered deer with the white flashing bulb nose was $3 more then the antlered deer without the lighted nose. I do not have any information at this time for a white life size set but I do think that they must have sold them as a set also considering there was no difference in the price for the colors. As a side note, Mold-Craft referred to the "brown" colored reindeer as being faun colored in their brochure. Mold-Craft also made the Junior Reindeer in white. The white junior reindeer was #22-AW they also had this one with a white flashing bulb nose #22-ABW. The white painted Junior Rudolph was their #22-SBW. The faun colored Junior antlered reindeer was #22-A. The faun colored junior Rudolph was their #22-SB. The price was the same for either color of the junior reindeer. Mel