Most Charming, Very Scarce Old Chalkware Halloween Mold in Best Soft Orange Paint duck shaped Unsigned and undated but I

Unsigned and undated but I believe dating to the 1970s

pretty fantastic looking I think (I find the nose and eyes and tails cards pretty surreal

stationed forever on its gray and red patterned mat

as well as a hairline crack on the interior near one of the hinges and overall wear/aging to the interior bottom half

and a split in the lid of its original wooden box

Most Charming, Very Scarce Old Chalkware Halloween Mold in Best Soft Orange Paint duck shaped Unsigned and undated but II've seen exactly one other like this, which I bought (found in PA) and sold a few years ago and thought one of the best things ever. I know there are those out there all about Halloween; I am not one of them! But I find this pumpkin, and especially this very excellent face with pointy ears, which I take for a cat, both super classic feeling and also transcendent and I've never seen a better shade of orange. Made of chalkware plaster, I believe this