Department 56 Halloween Accessory Set 56.53246

Description

Department 56 Halloween Accessory Set 56.53246. A collectible Halloween item from Department 56. If you are looking for department 56 halloween accessory set 56, this is the one to grab while it is still available. Full details and specifications from the original listing follow below.

Department 56 Halloween Accessory Set 56.53246: Product Details

New In Box
Set Of 5
Size: 4.5, 2.25, 2.25, 2, 2 inches

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About Department 56

Department 56 village pieces: lighted Disney and Halloween village houses and accessories for your holiday display.

Department 56 made its name by inventing the lighted Christmas village, and its Snow Village Halloween line applies the same craft to October: porcelain and ceramic buildings and accessories, hand painted, designed to be arranged into a miniature world and lit from within. The Halloween range grew into a collecting field with its own landmarks, monsters and in-jokes, and its accessory figures and sets are what give a village its scenes: characters at smaller scale than the buildings, posed to tell a story on a shelf or tabletop. Department 56 releases follow a pattern collectors know well: pieces are introduced in a given year, produced for a limited span, and then retired, after which the only supply is the secondary market. The introduction information and measurements in the listing are the catalogue facts for the piece, the data village collectors record as they build a display piece by piece and season by season. Because the villages are arranged rather than simply shelved, scale consistency matters, and Department 56 accessories are made to the village scale so a figure group from one year stands naturally beside buildings from another.

Village accessories work differently from village buildings. A building is a landmark; an accessory set is a moment. Department 56 designs its accessory groups as little scenes (figures in costume, monsters, townsfolk and props at a few inches tall) that a collector positions on a street corner, in a doorway or beside a building to give the village a population. The measurements in the listing are the heights of the individual pieces in the set, which is how a collector judges how a group will sit against the buildings around it. Accessories were sold in themed sets of several pieces rather than individually, so a complete set, all of its figures together as issued, is the unit collectors look for: a set missing one figure has lost part of its scene. The Snow Village accessories share the hand painted finish and the village scale of the buildings, even though they are unlit, and groups from different years are made to stand together, so a collector can mix accessory sets from across the Halloween range’s production years into a single crowd scene without a visible change of style or scale.

Snow Village Halloween is the October counterpart to Department 56’s Christmas villages, and it has its own cast of subjects: haunted houses, monster figures and Universal style horror icons like Dracula, whose autograph seekers are the joke behind the Autographs piece in this range. The Halloween village grew through the 2000s as Department 56 issued buildings and accessories each season, and collectors lay the village out annually the way Christmas villages come out in December. The pieces are made to village scale and finished by hand, with the slightly theatrical, storybook look that separates Department 56 from realistic modelling: these are not scale miniatures of real places, they are scenes from an imagined Halloween town. Accessory sets are the connective tissue of that town, the small figures and props that fill the spaces between buildings and turn separate pieces into one display. Because the Halloween line was always smaller than the Christmas ranges, its pieces were produced in smaller numbers, and the introduction dates in the listings are how collectors place each piece in the sequence of the village’s growth.