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Summary: Looking for antique Christmas ornaments and figures? Learn how to find Christmas collectibles in this free video clip.
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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
Resources for reference and price guides I always recommend that when you start collecting this kind of collectible a, Christmas collectible it's a great idea to look at the resource books that are available and a lot of them out there. You can narrow it down in an area where you can collect in and just buy those books that are specific or you can go out and buy a general book like this. Which is one of my favorites and this is Christmas Through the Decades and this is by Robert Brenner he wrote a number of holiday books, this one in particular I like a lot. It's a little expensive you might be able to find it at your local library or have them order it for you. You can go to Barnes and Noble and find lots of reference books there. You can go to the internet and find a lot on Amazon.com or I want to show you a few other examples. There's like Christmas Pass this is a nice example they show a lot of lighting in this book which is a fun book to have if you're going to collect lighting. They're just a good resource for you. Another example we have in a smaller books you can find a Joy of Christmas collecting this is another great little book and very inexpensive that you can pick up when you're just getting started. So using reference books is really I think important when you think about collecting anything but something like Christmas collectibles it would give you wide range of what's out there to collect, how much it's going to cost and it might help you do decide what exactly what it is that you want to collect in the Christmas collectible.