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Tree
Ornaments - Pipka Santas - Snow
Children - Black
Forest Collection - Peggy
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Gabriela
Christoff - Glitterazzi -
Mattarusky - Other Ornaments |
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Tree
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December, 1976, while in Graduate School in Minneapolis, I set out
one cold night to find a Christmas tree...and I did, a three-foot
table model, Charlie Brown style tree if there ever was one.
The tree was decorated with silver tinsel garland, a box of cheap
silver ornaments, and six red silk poinsettias. It would
become, officially, my first Christmas tree.
For every Christmas since then
that I can remember, those six silk poinsettias have been placed
on my main tree. They will be thirty years old in
2006. I didn't know it at the time, but they were the start
of a collecting passion that continues to grow with each passing
year. These pages will showcase my tree ornament
collections, not only the primary lines but also ornaments from a
variety of sources, such as museum stores and small shops. |
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If you look at
the small insets in the graphic above, you'll see representations of a
number of the lines that I collect. For several years, I purchased
ornaments from the shops of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Elvejhem Museum and the Madison Art
Center here. Recently, I have been enthusiastically adding a line
of hand-painted glass eggs imported from Poland; you will find more of
them on the ChristmasPast
page. And, there are others: Varsovia glass, Fitz &
Floyd, Reed and Barton, etc.
In 2006, I have become intensely
interested in what I will call the "Three G's"; that is, the
ornaments of Gabriela Christoff, Glitterazzi from Joy to the World, and
Old World Christmas' new line of Glistening ornaments. The latter
have yet to appear at retailers, and so I as yet have no pictures of
them. I will continue to add Patricia Breen ornaments to my
collection, and I am quite certain that something else will catch my eye
in the stores that I frequent. I hope you'll agree, it promises to
be a fun and exciting year! |
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