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Summary: Interested in collecting Christmas tree ornaments? Learn about the different shapes of collectible Christmas tree ornaments & decorations in this free video guide to collecting holiday antiques.
Sue Shea has been dealing in antiques since 1979, and has her own shop, Shea Antiques, located in Shelburne Falls, MA. Her passion is early American 18th & 19th century antique country...read more
"Shapes when you are looking at shapes of all ornaments we can look at a few here on the table and it might help. This is a torpedo shape and you can see on this feather tree a little unusual early early about 1920s, 30s little torpedoes which are kind of fun things. So you can find a range of type of torpedoes in a swindle thin ornament and larger sizes and that is one of the shapes that you would find. You would find shapes of umbrellas in different forms, with hooks on them and some of them that are just straight folded umbrellas. These are different kind of shapes and are fun to collect. Then you would find the houses in different shapes and forms which are kind of fun. Then you look and see we have just a round bulb in different sizes, different shapes and with different hand painted decorations on them and those are pretty subjective you can choose from a large range of color. So your house is decorated in reds and greens you might just want to collect the red bulbs that you can find no matter what shape it is and they come in such a wide variety that you can mix and match all of these shapes together and they would look find. It all depends on where and how you plan on showing your ornaments when you do collect them so shape as well as color are important to think about. A lot of the Santa's you find are in the red color, some are in a different color but very unusual to find them in anything else but red. Bells come in all different colors and shapes, some with close forms, some in open forms, some with bells on the bottom so these are kind of fun things you can find in all different colors. A long with the pine cones and the birds pretty pretty common bulbs, very easy to find and in a variety of colors so this is a fun thing to collect. Sometimes people just like to collect the clear, round shape indent and put them altogether and display them in all different ways. Still there are other people who like to collect all of the same ornament and you can buy a box which you can you can buy some of these boxes that are full with the original bulbs and you might want to go with the same color ornaments all on your tree or whatever you wish to display them. So those are some of the varieties of shapes that we have here today some of the faces is a nice form that you might want to consider in a small area showing it off cause they are very expensive. So this gives you a little idea of some of the shapes and colors."
eHow Article: Shapes of Collectible Christmas Tree Ornaments