I assure you the picture above is real. The vampire hunting kit was sold in 1851 at the Great Exhibition in London. Complete in a mahogany box, this kit included a revolver, silver bullets, garlic powder, silver dagger, ivory cross, mirror, Professor Blomberg`s New Vampire Serum, wooden stake, etc. The bullets themselves were manufactured by Nicolas Plomdeur, a gunsmith from Belgium.
At Sotheby's, this kit sold for $12,000. I guess the buyer had some vampires to slay and wanted to make sure he had the good stuff.
Via Blenders.
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Actually, in 1851 the kit was free, but then they'd overcharge on the refills.
Are u a vampire back then?
these are fake made-in-china kits.
my dad has an authentic one from Romania and i tried the revolver on my cat.
"...tried the revolver on the cat"
how did this work out for you?
Kick ass post, cool pic - thanks!
Ripley's Believe it or Not museum in Niagara Falls has one of these too. Fucking crazy.
silver is for warewolfs, not vampires
Actually silver is also used for vampires. It really depends because there are a various amount of myths.
"silver is for warewolfs, not vampires"
You never know, man. There might be that off-chance where you're crashing an evil-beings singles mixer (B.Y.O.Blood). Plus there's gotta be some vampires who have werewolves for friends, just like there's some white guys who have black friends.
baaaahahaaaha
According to some vampire myths, vampires can be killed with silver or gold. I guess people preferred silver because it was cheaper.
You're all idiots! Why are you wasting your time on vampires and werewolves? It's the damn zombies we have to worry about. We're overdue for a stage 4 outbreak and you fools are concerned with vampires? Get your priorities straight!
Nope, not true, I saw the exact same kit in a musuem in the Philidelphia area. They had it on display not as a bit of history but as an example of the fraudalent stuff that they recieve sometimes. They were able to prove it was made in the 50's based on the materials used.
forget the vampires, werewolves, and zombies! it's the robots that are going to kill us all! not even a vampire can kill a robot!
you guys are all idiots. Grow up.
What about the aliens?
You have all totally missed the point! It's the vampire-werewolf-zombie-robots that are the real problem!!!!!
I want one just for the novelty of it.
dude im a hunter i know what kills the fuckers silver doesnt kill vampires it only slows them the real fucking killer is sunlight get sum portable UV lights and the blood suckers are toast
you guys are idiots, its true about sun light, but also holy water!
Have you ever wondered that both warewolfs and vamps could be working together? And what the hell is up with the robots, aliens, & zombies?
Some one said once that all kinds of tools help! I just realized that even all kinds of vampires, warewolfs, aliens, zombies, and I guess robots too can easily die by shooting the the head! Don't you think?
What type of robots were you talking about?
The picture is real but the rest of the story is wrong. Vampire killing kits were not made tell the 1970’s by a man trying to draw attention to his gun business. The names of the man that supposedly made the kits and the bullet maker are made up. Look them up there is no record of them in history because they do not exist.
how strange. I never knew vampire-hunters like'd to be a bit fancy in their work.. oh well.
there is no point in wondering about the myths of vampires or warewolfs cus even if they existed, their identities would be stricktly hidden. And if there are vampire hunters, it would jsut give them a far better reason to it too.
The part about all this that makes me laugh is the use of the word "fake"'
Saying it's a "fake" vampire kit is like saying that pokemon catcher does not "really" work
vampires rarely become friends with those mangy mutts. they stink of dog. but hunters are a problem. i wouldnt mind feeding off one one of them, but im vegitarian ill stick to animals.
Holy water kills vampires? Yeah right. That was just a yth spread by the church to make people believe vampires are evil. Silver doesn't work, sunlight burns them not, exactly fatal unless they sunbathe, stakes merely paralyse them, you haev to cut of their heads and burn the bodies to kill them good.
Why slay vampires, they are creatures like us too.
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