Antique Beaded Chip-Tinsel Bell with Amazing Santa and Bullion Fringe PA15028

6 ½” tall including fringe; 8” tall including glass beadwork

SPECIAL FEATURES

This handsome antique paper Santa comes from our treasured postcard collection. Gail framed him with vintage Dresden paper border and antique gold roping. Our best circa 1900s chip-tinsel cardboard bell with clay clapper sparkles with glittered vintage stars, opulent antique gold bullion fringe, and silver and red vintage mercury glass beads. We added a strand of antique and vintage glass beads so the bell would hang down from the branch between other ornaments for a great display! HANDMADE AND SIGNED BY GAIL GIAIMO.

THIS ONE-OF-A-KIND ORNAMENT IS MADE ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY WITH ANTIQUE AND VINTAGE MATERIALS to include: glass ornaments from the 1890s to1950s, most of which were made in Germany; colorful Victorian embossed & die-cut paper “scraps” and chromolithographs from postcards and advertising trade cards, made in Europe between the 1870s and 1910; antique and vintage fabric to include chenille, lace, ribbon and metallic trims; antique and vintage tinsel from tree garlands and old-stock German-made Lametta tinsel; gold and silver old-stock Dresden paper trims, crepe paper, foil, gift wrap, spun glass, and other embellishments. Items described as “antique” are dated between 1870 and the early 1900s (prior to WWI). Items described as “vintage” are dated between 1915 (WWI) and the 1950s (mid-century). We also use Dresden trims (only on occasion) and crinkle wire (always used for durability) made more recently in Germany using techniques and equipment that have not changed over the past 150 years.