How to Collect Antique Christmas Ornaments

Series Summary

Christmas is a time for family and rejoicing, for celebrating the good things we have in life and remembering the birth of Jesus Christ to a gentle teenage girl named Mary and a faithful carpenter named Joseph. It’s also a time for getting frazzled and burnt out, shopping for things your kids don’t want or need, and fighting your neighbor for that very last toy on the shelf, the one you know you have to get…or else. Once you’ve regained your composure—and finished your shopping list—you may find it a little easier to get back into the true spirit of the season. You might even put up the Christmas tree and spend an evening with the family decorating it with some of your favorite ornaments, perhaps a few passed down from your own childhood.

In this free video series, learn all about collecting those treasured Christmas tree ornaments. These unique objects remind us of some of the best times we have all year; and they come in so many colors, shapes, and sizes that they offer a world of collecting potential to the ornament connoisseur. Our expert will show you how to get your collection started, and she’ll talk about a few things you need to know when choosing pieces, including determining value, age, how to display, and how to store your collectible Christmas tree ornaments.

Video Transcript

"Hello we are talking about Christmas collectibles there is a wide range of Christmas collectibles but today I like to focus on ornaments we are going to narrow it down to a hundred years span. So we would talk a little bit about late Victorian up to the 40s, 50s and we would show you some examples. So we would start off by looking at let's see here we have some Polish ornaments this is a Polish ornament put out by fantasia, it is one of my favorites it is Santa with a reindeer, they are fairly large bulbs, they where put out in the 1930s and the 1950s and we have number of different examples that I will be showing you. This is just one but we are going to take a look at all different sizes, shapes, some figural that I have here, some Santa's, some cups and teacups, and coffeecup, and baskets, there is a wide range you can collect 1 or many different kinds. So that is what we are going to start today."