What is Halloween without pumpkins? A distinctly American tradition, one of the first literary references to carving a pumpkin is from the poet John Greenleaf Whittier (b. 1806) who wrote in his 1850 poem, "The Pumpkin" 'Oh!—fruit loved of boyhood!—the days recalling, When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling! When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin, Glaring out through the dark with a candle within!' Our selection of traditional, paper pulp pumpkins are crafted using original American designs which date to the 1920's and 1930's -- the Golden Age of Halloween decorations. Paper lanterns were very popular from the turn-of-last-century till the late 1930's, and we especially love the haunting look of a glowing lantern displayed on a porch or hanging in the branches of a tree on All Hallow's Eve.