April 23, 2024
1890 1910 German Christmas Candy Gift Box Ornament
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1890 1910 German Christmas Candy Gift Box Ornament for Feather Tree. A early scrap figure on the cover, makes this box to an extraordinarily beautiful ornament for your 1900 century Christmas tree. Many small hollow glass balls and a wonderful border out of Tinsel make this packaging for a Christmas treat or gift to someone special. Very well receive. Without damages. Very rarely in this form preserved incredible well for it's age. Market day was Saturday and traditionally the women brought ornament boxes and sacks in baskets by train to Sonneberg which was the central depot for both ornaments and toys. Ornaments became more elaborate as time passed, both in design and trim. Embellishments included the use of silk thread, chenille, tinsel, wool-thread, swags, tassels and crinkly wire. Chromolithography, invented in England and adopted by German printers provided color pictures for the public. Suddenly the public were collecting them in scrapbooks and they became known as "scraps," and Christmas scraps were hung on many trees in those days. If you are a collector of rare German ornaments this is a unique piece for your collection, this would be a magnificent gift for collector of rare 1900 German ornaments. Note also I have many more German 1900 Christmas Ornaments to auction off. If you love Antique Dresden, please see our other
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