CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS, LIGHTS, & DECORATIONS – A Collector’s Identification and Value Guide   by George Johnson, Collector Books, KY, 1987/1990. 

Over 700 superb color photographs with identifying captions and values [date of publication]  highlight this early out-of-print book on antique and vintage Christmas ornaments, lights, and decorations.  

This comprehensive pictorial guide to Christmas collectibles covers by chapter:  A History of the Decorative Christmas Tree; Collector’s Notes; Glass Christmas Ornaments (History, Methods of Manufacture, Animals, Flowers, Fruit and Flower Baskets, Fruits and Vegetables, Hearts, Heavenly Bodies, Houses and Buildings, Household Items, Kugels, Mushrooms, Musical Instruments, Nuts – Acorns and Walnuts, People, Pine Cones, Scrap and Glass Ornaments, Transportation, Trees, and Miscellaneous Glass Ornaments);  Paper Ornaments (Scrap Ornaments, Dresden Ornaments, Paper Candy Containers); Fabric Ornaments; Metal Ornaments; Wax Ornaments; Sebnitz Ornaments; Lights and Lighting for the Tree (Pre-electric Lighting, Electric Lights);  Miscellaneous Christmas Collectibles; Color Plates; Afterword; Selected Bibliography; Personal Inventory List; and The Dear Old Tree.  Values are stated for date of publication.

8.6” x 11.25” color-imprinted hardback in very good condition.  319 pages.

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