Expand<\/a><\/p>\nThe autumn auction is the biggest of two annual events. More than 1,000 items will be on the block for customers who want to complete their set of reindeer or are on the hunt for the rare Tasmanian Devil. The preview begins at 9 a.m. and sales begin at 10.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the blow mold sale, I\u2019ve got to take all these tables out and everything and put more chairs, so we have all the room,\u201d Jones said. Blow mold auctions can draw 200 to 400 bidders.<\/p>\n
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Rosini\u2019s lot of blow molds were duplicates from his 300-piece collection. The retired facilities manager decorates his own home with blow molds and enjoys touching up the paint, but doesn\u2019t sell the ones he restores.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re fun. It\u2019s a hobby of mine. I\u2019ve always enjoyed painting. I used to paint classic cars, so I transferred that over to painting blow molds. It\u2019s kind of like therapy for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blow molds are still being made in new and reproduction designs and can be found at big-box stores, hardware stores and online. The Jones brothers sell Halloween reproductions made for them from a vintage mold, available online and at the auction house.<\/p>\n
Andrews, the author, said most collectors think older is better. \u201cThose are kind of the more treasured ones,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Nick Antidormi, who lives in Spring Brook Twp., has been going to the Jones auctions for a decade. The hundreds of blow molds and other decorations he puts out each Christmas season landed him a spot on \u201cHoarding for the Holidays\u201d on HGTV last year.<\/p>\n
He is consigning a handful of his own creations at the auction. He touches up old blow molds, sometimes changing color schemes to create one-of-a-kind pieces. He was able to find a handful of old but unfinished blow molds from the defunct company General Foam and is putting a fresh look on the vintage pieces.<\/p>\n
\u201cPainting them a little different actually makes people want them more,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Erin Baress of Scranton agrees. The experienced crafter does business as E & R Crafts. \u201cYou are able to create new things and that makes them rare,\u201d she said. She used an airbrush paint system to give a Santa a green makeover and gave a Nativity-scene Joseph a lightsaber. Both will be on the block at the Jones auction.<\/p>\n
She loved the decorative pieces as a child and was glad to see them resurface. They look better than their inflatable counterparts, which collapse when the fan is turned off, and mesh figures that fade. \u201cI really like the blow molds because one, they are vintage, and two, they can be restored,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She\u2019ll also be at the auction, to see if anything catches her eye.<\/p>\n
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If you go<\/p>\n
What: The Jones Auction House blow mold auction, offering more than 1,000 of the hard plastic decorations called blow molds. Most are Christmas decorations, but there are Halloween and Easter decorations and some oddities of all sizes. Look for vintage brands such as Empire Plastics, Union Products, General Foam Plastics, Beco Products and Poloron Products. Local artisans also consign their own creations.<\/p>\n
When: Sunday, Nov. 15, at 10 a.m. The preview begins at 9.<\/p>\n
Where: Jones Auction House, 1100 State Route 307, Spring Brook Twp., near Scranton. The drive takes about an hour from Hazleton and 80 minutes from Pottsville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRING BROOK TWP. \u2014 Gino Rosini rolled up to Jones Auction House on a remote stretch of highway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[3550,201,182,28,178,180,179,16791,289,6056,729],"class_list":["post-311130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-home-and-garden","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-spring-brook-township","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-rhr","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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