Vintage Halloween Card, 1980s Carlton Unused, Mouse in Trick-or-Treat Bag, Ephemera

A little mouse has stowed away in a trick or treat bag and is already eating the candy corn.

Carlton Cards, Hallmark, and Ambassador produced some of the most charming seasonal greeting cards of the 1980s and 90s — small illustrated worlds populated by animals with an endearing anthropomorphic quality that made them impossible to throw away. This Carlton card is New Old Stock: blank, never signed, never sent, in pristine condition with original orange envelope. Inside says Happy Halloween.

For a vintage card collector, a mouse lover, or anyone who identifies more with the mouse than the trick-or-treater.

• Type: Original NOS Carlton Cards greeting card — not a reproduction
• Maker: Carlton Cards, USA, 1980s–1990s
• Dimensions: 7.5 × 5.0 inches
• Condition: Excellent NOS — blank, never used; no folds, creases, or tears; includes original orange envelope
• Material: Card stock