You & Stevens may have your vampire killing kits out of chronological order, but the important thing is that you’ve got your kit!

Would you care to share some photos of your kit with us?

I want to see that pin — especially as it did belong to an ‘imp’!

Her initials were “IMP” … and from all accounts, she lived up to them. -laffin’

The photos on the auction website certainly made the auction look like it was full of wonderful finds and beautiful pieces; glad to hear that it was not a disappointment.

Did the person who paid the $500 for the trip to the attic get to keep — or just to look? In any case, what a thrill!

I’d love to see the pin; Miss Isabel was, by all accounts, a fabulously fascinating woman and owning something so personal of hers, well, I’m green with envy (but very happy for you!)

The house once was very beautiful, but now is in quite a state of disrepair. It needs a LOT of work and a great deal of money to restore it. I hope someone takes on the task. But even still, with so many things wrong with it, the quality and beauty of parts of it still shone through, like the lovely parquet flooring in the foyer/entryway, and the beautiful wood staircase and bannister. There were some nice stained glass windows, as well.

The variety and quality of the things that were auctioned was just incredible. The furniture was pristine and lovely … there was more cut glass than I’ve ever seen in one place. Tons of books … bookcases …. pier tables. Beds. Mirrors. Oh, and I thought this was super cool … there was one lot that contained vintage clothing to DIE for. Beautiful old dresses with trains … ornate hats. Of course, much of it was very fragile. But such fun. I think that lot of clothing sold for something like fifty bucks.

I think one of the more interesting sales was for the “contents of the attic.” Someone paid about $500 for the privilege of going through everything that had been left in the attic. From what I heard, there were old toys, trunks … tons of documents and ledgers. A really old bookcase that’s rarely found anymore. Bet it was a fun hunt through there.

I bought some jewelry (one piece i particularly loved was a gold pin with the initials “IMP” for Isabella Myles Person), some books … a lovely rosewood lap desk with silver inlay … an enormous Japanese bowl … a clear blue glass art deco bowl. Some things sold very reasonably, others, not so much.

I think the most interesting thing about the sale was the vast period of time that the contents covered. There were lots of things there from antebellum times, but also a great deal of lovely Victorian period stuff. From what I understand, Isabelle and her mother did the “Grand Tour” back in the day, and they brought back a lot of interesting pieces from that trip, as well. It was a really eclectic, interesting collection.

Anyhow, as you can tell from my enthusiasm, it was a lot of fun. Wish you could have been there!

Oh … one more thing. I heard that the woman who bought the vampire killing kit had come all the way from Pennsylvania for the sale, for the purpose of buying that in particular.

It is also possible that someone has taken an old writing box, religious artifacts, ointment and medical bottles and has combined them to make an “antique vampire killing kit.” It could even be a writing box that had been owned by a priest or minister into which they tossed a couple of weapons to make the “kit.”

The “when it was originally made” was stated to differentiate from an “antique,” “rare,” “celebrity used,” “modified,” or whatever whoppie cushion which sold for a much higher amount due to age (or other reason) than it sold for originally.

I did not state the vampire kit (or anything else) was sold for any amount let alone 10K when it was originally made (the 10K was just a number pulled from my behind during the comment creating phase, not anything else); you obviously have read an implication into that hastily created comment — but I did not actually type “the vampire killing kit originally sold for” in any place, at any time. Your accusation that I or my argument have been deceitful is unwarranted.

In other words, my whole comment boils down to a challenge: Show me a high-end whoopie cushion or other gag item that compares to this kit in terms of being created for the wealthy (bonus points for being old and with proper provenance or proof that it was a humor item, i.e. and advertisement for it showing it’s a gag) and maybe I’ll agree it could have been made/sold as a humor item.