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Summary: Interested in collecting Christmas tree ornaments? Learn about the different types of collectible Christmas tree ornaments & decorations in this free video guide to collecting holiday antiques.
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Sue Shea Sue Shea has been dealing in antiques since 1979, and has her own shop, Shea Antiques, located in Shelburne Falls, MA. Her passion is early American 18th & 19... read more
Then we have the silver indents these are the earlier one's from the 1930s you can see the cap and a lot of times on the top you would see the cap will give the name of it origin country of origin. A little star on the back has a really nice detail but these are kind of fun people like to collect these odd indents but sometimes all in the silver or sometimes in a variety. So there is something else to think about and here is other shapes that are kind of fun, teapots, the little teapots and different shapes and different colors, really wind cycle kind of things to collect so there is another area that you can go into. We have houses that came in different shapes with tree, some have houses with turkey and Santa is in front of them, they come in a variety of sizes and shapes. Those are kind of fun. Then we have umbrellas these umbrellas these are little earlier Victorian, this is early to missing the wire but this is a Victorian wire attach to it those are kind of fun to collect too. So as you can see there is an awful lot to choose from. Here are some pine cones very common, sometimes people like to collect pine cones those are fun and we have which happens to be mushrooms. Missing a little bit of it's color on top but this is the clip that I was talking about it comes in different forms. This clip could be clipped onto your tree some of these mushrooms come in a form of the cap of the top, you can hand them this way to. This is kind of a fun form so these are some of the varieties that we would talk about today.