April 12, 2024
1920s Potato. Glass German Ornament. Red out of the Garden. So Realistic.
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Potato. German Glass Christmas Tree Ornament. 1920s. 3.50" and in very good condition. This is really considered a very lucky ornament with German Families. The potato is a symbol of a bountiful harvest, and very important for sustaining life. We also have diary entries in the very early 1800s of gilded potatoes being used as Christmas ornaments. Families could not afford ornaments, and used vegetables and fruit which they gilded. So a very natural ornament. And to those of us in the mid-west..Wisconsin, Iowa, etc. we love our potatoes. Especially those red potatoes which this symbolizes. Silvered inside. Then painted a bright pink color to symbolize a red potato. Even the eyes of the potato are molded into the ornament. Really special to our family, as we would plant our own potatoes, harvest them by hand, and put them in gunny sacks in cold basement. Used them all winter. Blown in the Golden Age of Glass Ornaments between World War I and World War II. This was a cottage industry, a means for the Germans to make money during the winter when they could not work in the fields. The sons and fathers blew the ornaments. The girls and mom would silver the ornaments inside, and then individually paint the ornaments, and grandma would take to the train station in the spring when the others were back in the fields. Then they
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