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Preamble | Joint sewing, embroidering,
knitting, or tongueing has always provided the opportunity to
speak about personal experiences, to talk about private things,
in short: to chat out of the sewing box as a German saying
goes. It’s not to imagine what stories the many embroideries of my
offer could tell if they could speak to us … Here I’m talking a bit
out of my own sewing box, in the hope that one or other
little thing could be of interest for you. |
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Flowers on the Way 2 | Flowers on the way, again: Some pictures from my summer hiking tours in the
Swiss Alps region. Click thumbnail to open a larger image or a pop-up gallery; navigate with mouse or arrow keys |
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Picture Sheet 10 | Flowers on the Way 2
Petunia |
Cosmos |
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Mallows |
Garden pottery |
Grown or crocheted |
Coneflower |
Cranesbill |
Cactus Dahlias |
Houseleeks on a House |
Aster |
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Painted |
Manufactured |
Sketched |
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Rose |
Autumn crocus |
Flowers (monkshood) on the way |
Inula |
Field Gentian |
Oxeye Daisy |
Campanula |
Devil’s-bit Scabious |
Eriophorum |
Houseleeks |
Carline thistle |
Mountain tobacco |
Short-Leaved Gentian |
Moon Daisy, Marguerite, Chrysantheum |
Cottongrass |
Fringed Gentians |
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Monkshood |
Bellflower or Campanula rotundifloria |
Famous Jungfrau and others |
Back at home again | |
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Beloved Sebnitz Ornaments | The June edition of the Golden Glow Newsletter, well knonwn to all
American Christmas past collectors, features a photos page of
Sebnitz ornaments with pictures that I was allowed to provide.
At this opportunity, I feel delighted
to show here some more examples to people who may be interested therein.
A relevant quote from the booklet
Of All the Trees Most
Lovely! may serve as a short introduction: A Sebnitz ornament has got its particular
non-interchangeable
characteristics. The major determining feature is the imaginative use
of an inexhaustible abundance of different materials. Stamped-out
celluloid-foil, little glass tubes, glass beads, cotton batting, paper,
chenille, wax, cardboard, tin-foil, mica, wire, scraps, wood,
and even grass and beech nuts’ pods were used to create fanciful
ornaments, which can not entirely deny their relationship to artificial
flower products. All kinds of subjects where a wax child could be
put in had got a preferred status — such as beds, cribs, sleighs,
baby-carriages, cradles, baskets, sedan chairs, altars, ships, airplanes,
and so on. Since the ornaments had been manufactured by homeworkers’
families with materials to be occasionally on hand, each piece quasi won
the status to be unique. The first 31 pictures show examples from
Sebnitz ornaments that were made by means of stamped celluloid-foil,
a waste product from the sequin manufacturing. For other pieces plain
silver foil was used as is to be seen on 13 more pictures.
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Picture Sheet 9 | Beloved Sebnitz Ornaments
Golden Roof Church |
Keeper Watching Out From His Lighthouse |
Draw Well |
Infant in a Cradle |
George Stephenson’s Locomotive with Engineer |
Thirsty Doves on a Pumped Well |
House with Flower Decorated Balcony |
Motor Carriage with Driver and Passenger |
Snowman Riding a Horse Buggy |
Spinning Wheel with Distaff |
Cross-Legged Fox Dressed in a Red Jacket |
Fruit Basket Decorated with an Angel Scrap |
Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in Front of
Grandmother’s House |
Squirrel Going Sledding |
Manger with Infant Jesus and Sheep |
Horse Pulling a Sled Bed with Baby Inside |
Two Mast Steamboat with Double Chimney |
Rickshaw with Jesus Child |
Mountain Hare Celebrating Christmas in the Woods |
Captain and His Mate Steering a Zeppelin |
Aeroplane Which Resembles the Well-Known Bleriot
Plane … |
… and a Nice Variation Thereof |
Christmas Manger, Reduced to the Essential |
Baby Awaiting to Be Taken Out in Her Carriage |
Boy with Napoleon Hat Visiting the Eiffel Tower |
Telephone Wall Set |
Eskimo and His Igloo |
Three Fledglings and Their Mother Nesting in a Hand
Cart |
Threewheeler Car with Driver |
Portable Cradle Basket |
Manger with Holy Family, Sheep and the Magi |
Manger with Jesus Child, Angels and Sheep |
Manger with Jesus Child Alone |
Wintery Dressed Child Riding on a Swingboat |
Child Sailing in a Canopy Boat |
Child on a Sled |
Angel Musing in a Small Pavillon |
Potted Flower Plants |
Angel Merry Going Round |
Baby Softly Lieing in a Four Wheels Carriage |
Black Forest Clock with Santa Head |
Lamb in Pen |
Christmas Scene Packed Inside of a Half Silver Egg |
Octahedron Shaped Fancy Ornament |
An Earlier View of the Silk Flower Town Sebnitz * | * Credits: www.akpool.de |
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My Trees in 2011 | Here are some pictures of my kugel ornaments and the feathertrees
standing up in our living room at Christmas time in 2011. Click thumbnail to open a larger image or a pop-up gallery; navigate with mouse or arrow keys |
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Picture Sheet 8 | Kugels and More in a Different Way
Christmassy Decorated Living Room |
Kugels at the Window |
Santa |
From the Erzgebirge |
Decoration of the Window Board |
Santa Again |
Snow Babies |
A Heubach Santa |
A Curtain Made From Kugels |
Feather Tree #1, … |
… Richly, … |
… Very Richly Decorated |
Red Riding Hood |
Lantern |
Cock and More |
Puss'n Boots |
Dancing Girl |
Butterfly with Glass Candleholder |
My First Christmas Ornament |
A Cock Between Two Girls |
Puss 'n Boots, Once Again |
Kate Greenaway |
Feather Tree #2 (Miniatures) |
Miniatures #1 |
Miniatures #2 |
Miniatures #3 |
Miniatures #4 |
Miniatures #5 |
Miniatures #6 |
Erzgebirge Angels |
Feather Tree #3 (Dresden) … |
… Shows Its Backside Here |
Dresden Ornaments #1 |
Dresden Ornaments #2 |
Dresden Ornaments #3 |
Dresden Ornaments #4 | |
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Flowers on the Way | Flowers on the way: Pictures from a hiking day in Central Switzerland. Click thumbnail to open a larger image or a pop-up gallery; navigate with mouse or arrow keys |
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Ornamental Trees | Trees on the way: Pictures from my hiking holiday in Southern Tyrolia. Click thumbnail to open a larger image or a pop-up gallery; navigate with mouse or arrow keys |
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Picture Sheet 6 | Mother Nature is Decorating Her Trees with Beauty, Too
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My Tree in 2008 | Here are some pictures of the tree standing up in our living room
at Christmas time in 2008. Click thumbnail to open a larger image or a pop-up gallery; navigate with mouse or arrow keys |
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Picture Sheet 5 | Turning Tree (While Playing Christmas Carols)
The Tree with Turning Stand |
Thumbelina |
Sebnitz Watering Trough |
Cat in Boots |
Heubach #1 |
Dutch Girl |
Chinese Rooster |
Tree Turned |
Heubach #2 |
Clown Head |
Pigeonry |
Colorful Bird |
Heubach #3 |
Fly Agaric Couple |
Tree Turned More |
Cage Bird |
Steam Locomotive |
Zeppelin Airship |
Tree Turned Even More |
Circus Poodle |
Heubach #4 |
Spectacled Monkey |
Flying Angel |
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Christmas Collectors Fair 2008 | The annual Christmas Collectors Fair in Zurich, held traditionally
at the beginning of December, was a great event for enthusiasts of old
Christmas ornaments in this year, too, despite of the
economically difficult time. Here are some pictures from around my stand as
presented in 2008. They were taken on the second last day of the event and
show what has been left of my offer.
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Picture Sheet 4 | Booth 4.002 in Hall 4
Booth 4.002 in Hall 4 |
Stand Owner |
Active Visit |
Wide Range of Ornaments … |
… by closer inspection |
Eye Catcher: Kugels |
Cotton Ornaments |
From the Erzgebirge |
Heads Wanted? |
Father Christmas' House |
Merry Christmas! |
Exquisite Selection |
Dresden Cardboard |
Winged Items |
Eight Dollars a Piece Box |
Figures of All Kind |
Kugels Wherever You look |
Colourful Glass Ornaments |
Sebnitz Corner |
Guess who it is! (Ask Craig) |
Press Coverage * | * Don’t believe all what you read in newspapers:
My small,
beloved collection is by far not the biggest in Switzerland as (wrongly)
stated in the cutout! |
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Golden Fall | From my hiking holidays in Tyrolia I brought along some pictures
of trees that are almost so lovely and beautiful as our beloved Christmas
tree.
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Picture Sheet 3 | Golden Fall
Please Enter |
Symphony of Colors |
Saint George Chapel |
Colorful Hedge |
Pure Gold |
Bernegg Castle |
Through Colorful Wood … |
… on Pilgrim’s Path … |
… to the Church of Cold Fountain |
Wood Pile Poetry |
Pleasure Hiking |
Larches in Autumn Robe |
Beutelbach, That is Bag Creek |
Panorama Pulpit |
Cherry Tree in Flames |
Rose Hips |
Swinging Over the Fence |
Via Claudia Augusta | |
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Christmas Collectors Fair 2006 | The annual Christmas Collectors Fair in Zurich, held traditionally
at the beginning of December, is a great event for enthusiasts of old
Christmas ornaments. Here are some pictures from around my stand as
presented last year (2006).
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Picture Sheet 2 | Zurich Christmas Collectors’ Fair 2006
Door Opening on Thursday |
Waiting for Entrance |
Before the Rush |
First Visitors |
Glass Ornaments |
Eye Catcher in Blue |
Christmas Ornaments as Far as You Look |
Kugels, My Special Focus |
Rich Choice of Christmas Books |
Quiet Scene Aside with Feathertree |
Colorful World of Christmas |
My Humble Self, Laughing | |
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Elztal Museum | Though my personal collection of
antique Christmas ornaments isn’t that extensive, I feel honoured
that in winter 2003/04 I was allowed to show my treasures in the
Elztal Museum in Waldkirch. That’s a pleasant small German town
in the Black Forest, not far from Freiburg (Breisgau). The following sheet of
pictures, taken on the occasion of a visit there, is dedicated to the
wonderful and engaged people of the museum, and I would like to add
a heartful thank you to all of them.
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Picture Sheet 1 | A Winter Excursion to a Black Forest Valley
River Elz near Waldkirch |
Church Square |
Entrance to the Elztal Museum |
Christmas Trees |
Part of the Exposition |
Glass Ornaments |
Gablonz Ornaments |
Children Books |
Cotton Items |
Birds |
Feather Tree |
Candle Boxes |
Flowers |
Potpourri |
Last Look Backwards |
Town Church |
Market Square |
Goodbye to Waldkirch | |
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