The Addams Family Haunted House (805-198) Aurora Model Sealed AFA 85 ** POP 1 Highest Grade ** (Aurora, 1965)....

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The Addams Family Haunted House (805-198) Aurora Model Sealed AFA 85 ** POP 1 Highest Grade ** (Aurora, 1965). When Aurora decided to bring Charles Addams' macabre mansion (kit #805-198) to the modeling aisle, it delivered a plastic Gothic showpiece worthy of Morticia's roses. The two-story Victorian kit lets builders raise cobwebbed turrets, secret trapdoors, and a lightning rod finial, while decals add the family's delightfully sinister visages to the windows. The box art bathes the house in eerie lavender moonlight, with Lurch at the door and bats wheeling above-imagery that turned hobby-shop shelves into Wednesday's storybooks. This factory-sealed example has earned an AFA 85 NM+, nearly impossible to find after almost sixty Halloweens. Remarkably, this model even comes with a surviving original print ad. Few pop-culture kits capture 1960s TV horror-comedy and Aurora's golden age of monster modeling as completely as The Addams Family Haunted House. Whether you display it alongside Wolf Man's Wagon or finally glue its turreted walls under flickering bulbs, this graded gem promises to be a mortician-level highlight in any vintage plastic collection-creepier, kookier, and altogether rarer than most.

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