What you see to the left there is an actual vampire slaying kit, recently sold at Auction through Stevens at the estate auction for Jimmy Pippen noted designer and antique dealer. The kit fetched a handsome $14,850. I’d kill to know what the background of an item like this is. Who made it? Who bought it? Where was it sold? Experts place its creation somewhere in the early 1800′s while experts for Sotheby’s suggest that similar items sold through their auctions were made in the early 1900′s and sold as mementos to travelers in Eastern Europe around that time. A sort of cash-in on the popularity of Bram Stoker’s novel, ‘Dracula’.
Who knows? That thing is cool as hell!
November 17, 2008 12:55 pm
Very Cool Indeed!!