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Summary: Antique Christmas ornament resource guide! Learn some collecting tips for Christmas tree ornaments & decorations in this free video guide to holiday antiques & collectibles.
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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
When choosing to collect Christmas ornaments it's a very subjective thing and so defining your collection is totally up to you. Choosing to buy ornaments that are have are in good conditions, with good color is the best advice that I can give you. Other then that it's a purely subjective thing and if you prefer to have all ornaments that are just figural, that are birds, and some people like to fill up a tree with just bird clip on that is a great way to display just birds or there are people who like to mix all different kinds of animals that are attached at the tree or are display in a different way that is another subjective thing. My recommendation is that when you go with a theme either you can go with this is just some choices that are possibly you can go with just a animal theme, you can go with just a free form which is you know indenter this you could go with that and try to keep the ranges together. It all depends on what you want to display but you can also when you do this you should take into consideration how much of each of these bulbs cost to. So as you are adding your value together and you collection it could get very pricey if you start to collect figural ornaments or ornaments like Santa that range in the 40,50 dollars range to fill a tree it is going to take you a very long time to put these kind of Santa's in a full tree. So that is something to think about because at 40-50 dollars a piece it could get very pricey. You might want to mix those with something less expensive so the consideration might be price, it might be a factor in what you choose, and how much you choose to put on your tree but other then that it's just a subjective thing to go outer and have fun and enjoy doing it.