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Summary: Looking for antique Christmas ornaments and figures? Learn how to collect Japanese santas in this free video clip about Christmas 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
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Questions & AnswersSo I'm going to share a few examples of santas mostly Japanese here and then I'm going to show you right now here's an example of right here of the santa standing on this mica topped little pedestal with little composition boots and little felt body, felt pants. You'll find these really typical with a felt cape and sponge cotton beards with the composition face. And a lot of them have feathered trees they're carrying sometimes they have their sacks and sometimes they don't this is a really typical of that and example of a Japanese santa. On the bottom you can see where it's connected with the staple like little wires that hold the santa onto the paper base. A lot of times you'll find that this has stamped in Japan but this is a nice example some other ones that we have here another santa same type of santa with a smaller version. It has a little paint on his face the composition with a little mustache and his little feathered tree and he has a black belt on here, same type of age pants. This one actually has a stamp on it that says Japan same type of way attached to the base here with a little wire clips. So I have a couple other of examples I want to share with you that this one here same thing, mica you'll find these in varying sizes and varying degrees of condition. There all in fairly good condition this one has almost like a crape paper to it and a crape paper body as oppose to felt with a foot and a mica base on it. Same type of attachment on the bottom and this also says made in Japan so this is another example with an absolutely huge sack thats a big sack, you usually don't see them quite so bit. But a few examples of the Japanese santas that we wanted to show you today here's another example of another santa but has a wirey legs to it you can make this one stand up but it has a composition face. Again with composition hands and felt body and it was used to hang on the tree so a few examples of your Japanese santas.
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