Reserved for Dennis - Blue and White Angels on Tinsel Ornament with Flouncing Crepe Paper Skirts

8 ½” tall and wide

SPECIAL FEATURES

This ornament was designed to look like one of the home-made scrap and tinsel ornaments that would have graced the Victorian tree. We kept the original long strands of silver lametta and wired tinsel that came with these circa 1890’s scrap angels and added our own cellophane in a snow-flake shape. We matched vintage and antique crepe paper to their dresses to create flowing skirts and decorated them with Dresden trims and star.

Lovingly handcrafted 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.