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Metal
ornaments & all other metal items |
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"all other" are e.g. chimes, cookie cutters, Glucks-Figuren,
Nativity figures, Christmas pins. On several images information has been added via
the alternate text system, so if you are interested position the cursor
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![]() Enamel on metal, 8 x 8 cm, same design both sides. |
![]() Enamel on metal, 8 x 8 cm, same design both sides |
![]() Metal baby, judging by the hanging loop, used as ornament |
![]() Used to hang fruit on the tree. |
Below a small collection of Christmas broaches. They are gold-toned and decorated with multicolored Rhinestones. Vintage ones are collectible. They are all presents by colleague collectors, Kathy and Nany & Mike. |
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![]() ![]() The tree on the right marked "Hollicraft" and shown in the book "Signed Beauties of Costume Jewelry" by Marcia "Sparkles" Brown. |
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Another Chrismtas tree, unmarked, 5cm high. |
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![]() Painted tin (I think), Mexican, 1980s, 9,5cm and 14,5cm high |
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![]() Some more Mexican ornaments, 1980s, the stars (dia 9,5cm) and the stars of Bethlehem (15,5cm wide) have metal hooks; the two flower baskets (ca 6cm high) are for fixing on the branches; the two masks (ca 7,5cm high) have safety pins at the back probably to be used as a broach. |
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![]() Various cookie cutters |
![]() ![]() These come from the States I have been told; there is a price label of Macy's on the side. |
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![]() ![]() Inside a set of 6 cutters; they come from Sweden, the Santa probably a replacement for the little man top left. | ![]() ![]() This has a set of 12 cutters. Inside the lid is a label with two recipes; all text in french. |
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Although
this box contains cookie cutters, it says on the box “Cake Decorator”.
Consistent with this description there were also some other decorator
utensils in the box, see bottom corner left. |
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A small chocolate mold in the form of Santa, made by the German well known firm and marked "Anton Reiche Dresden" and the numers "54" and "10729". Santa is ca 11.5cm high. |
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Another chocolate Santa mold carrying his sack, and holding an aeroplane under his arm, while sitting on a tree trunk. Santa figure is ca 14cm high. Manufactured by Hermann Walter, Berlin. |
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Chimes |
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This
chime is one of several models made by the Adrian & Stock firm,
thought to be sometime in the 1920s. The firm went out of business and
Stock was bought out by another toymaker. This chime is either actual
1920s/1930s era piece, as the seller told me from stock bought at the
time from a former Stock employee who kept them after the firm closed
down, or just possibly 1940s/1950s piece made from the original moulds,
but this has not been confirmed. Lately I have seen another, same design, but the box has an older label on it, grey toned. So I think the one here is indeed of the 1940s-1950s, made by the firm that took over the Stock company. |
Chime, on the box described as an"Advents- und Weihnachts-Glockenspiel" (advent and Christmas carillon), to be mounted according to the illusration on the box. The use of the bell as a central decoration is particular to this chime. The Christmas tree has glass beads hanging from the branches. The small balls (bell clappers) are made of glass. |
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Glücks-Figuren
(Lucky figures) Lead casting is an old oracle and fortune telling custom, already in use in Roman times (ref. Bleigiessen, Wikipedia). |
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11 - Set of old, certainly pre-WW2 judging by the graphics on the box, "Glücksfiguren". In each a pink strip with text is inserted. One reads "Für Sorgen sorgt das Leben, Sorgenbrecher sind die Reben", a quote from Goethe: “for worries life provides, worry crushers are the vines”, a saying related to wine. | |||
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12 - This is a much younger set of "Glücksfiguren", probably of the 1950s or 1960s. In the booklet there is a long alphabetical list of interpretations for the bizarre shapes. | |||
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13 – Lead Nativity figures. These
are home-cast from Schneider molds, a German company, judging by the
colors I think of the 1940s. Casting molds and kits were introduced
into the United States from Germany during the early 1900s. Most
of these molds can be traced to Grubner Schneider. They were sold,
usually in pairs, ref. nos. 124 thru 129, for the three kings, Maria,
Joseph, Jesus in the crib, star, three angels, shepherd; the cow,
sheep and camel under 39 and 40 with other non-nativity figures;
no. 97 the camel with an Arab; donkey no. 219 with a cow. Info: http://www.concentric.net/~Richcamp/toymolds.htm |
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