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Summary: The Bible for All Antique Christmas Ornament Lovers!
Review: The late Phillip Snyder wrote this definitive book on the history of the Christmas tree and antique Christmas ornaments. Phil featured wonderful color photos of rare pieces from his own vast collection, and his book has a very readable and well-written text to accompany them. THE CHRISTMAS TREE BOOK motivated untold hundreds, perhaps thousands of collectors world-wide, to start digging through antique shops and Grandma's attic for those beautiful, gossamer-thin blown glass German ornaments from Victorian days. And it introduced readers to the scarce "Dresden" Christmas ornaments, so rare before this book that most antique dealers never recognized them! Made of pressed cardboard in two halves, they were taken home and painstakingly glued and assembled into animals, carriages and an endless variety of detailed shapes by cottage workers in Dresden, Germany in the 1870-1920 period. Readers are forewarned that Mr. Snyder's book will either bring a nostalgic longing for your own childhood Christmases, or send you scurring to YOUR Grandmother's attic looking for her beautiful, rare Holiday decorations of yesteryear. I had the pleasure of knowing Phil Snyder and collecting with him for a number of years; all early Christmas ornament buffs are a lot sadder for his early passing. We are certainly thankful for and well-rewarded by this legacy of his scholarly book. In additon, I would personally recommend you read Phil Snyder's second book on early Christmas, DECEMBER 25, also still available through your Amazon network of dealers. The photo he used on the back cover of a feather tree full of Dresdens was my tree!
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Summary: The Bible for All Antique Christmas Ornament Lovers!
Review: The late Phillip Snyder wrote this definitive book on the history of the Christmas tree and antique Christmas ornaments. Phil featured wonderful color photos of rare pieces from his own vast collection, and his book has a very readable and well-written text to accompany them. THE CHRISTMAS TREE BOOK motivated untold hundreds, perhaps thousands of collectors world-wide, to start digging through antique shops and Grandma's attic for those beautiful, gossamer-thin blown glass German ornaments from Victorian days. And it introduced readers to the scarce "Dresden" Christmas ornaments, so rare before this book that most antique dealers never recognized them! Made of pressed cardboard in two halves, they were taken home and painstakingly glued and assembled into animals, carriages and an endless variety of detailed shapes by cottage workers in Dresden, Germany in the 1870-1920 period. Readers are forewarned that Mr. Snyder's book will either bring a nostalgic longing for your own childhood Christmases, or send you scurring to YOUR Grandmother's attic looking for her beautiful, rare Holiday decorations of yesteryear. I had the pleasure of knowing Phil Snyder and collecting with him for a number of years; all early Christmas ornament buffs are a lot sadder for his early passing. We are certainly thankful for and well-rewarded by this legacy of his scholarly book. In additon, I would personally recommend you read Phil Snyder's second book on early Christmas, DECEMBER 25, also still available through your Amazon network of dealers. The photo he used on the back cover of a feather tree full of Dresdens was my tree!
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