This 4 inch Santa Glass Christmas Ornament is driving a little red convertible car. The Old World Santa Ornament is wearing an iridescent blue Santa suit with iridescent gold glitter trim. Santa has his car filled with toys on his way to deliver them to all good boys and girls. There are gold glitter outlined bright gold hubcaps and headlights on the Santa Christmas Glass Ornament with paint. The grill and underside of the car glass hanging ornament are ivory and the grill is detailed with red glitter. Santa is wearing a light blue suit and hat with ear flaps and he is also wearing gold mittens. Both the suit and hat are trimmed with gold iridescent glitter on this Santa Glass Christmas Ornament. Because of his rushing from place to place, his ivory and white beard is blowing in the breeze. The Old World Santa Ornament has a gold sack overflowing out the back of the car that has red glitter stripes in the folds of the bag. Inside Santa’s toy bag are 2 fuchsia packages with fuchsia glitter ribbons, a bright gold package with gold ribbon, and a miniature green tree with gold glitter ball ornaments. This Old World Santa Ornament is in a hurry to get his sack of toys to the good children all over the world.
The importance of the inge-glas German glass star crown hanger.
Highly regarded inge-glas ornaments can always be recognized by the exclusive Star Crown, your guarantee of fine German craftsmanship from the workshops of the Muller-Blech family, these fine collectibles can be passed down proudly for generations to come.
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Note: Do not forget your Christmas ornament hangers for your inge-glas German ornaments. See our Christmas ornament hooks on the last page of this section.
Caring for your Christmas inge ornaments.
To care for and protect your glas inge ornaments for years to come, please be mindful of the following suggestions. Wrap your German ornaments individually in acid free tissue paper and pack your inge ornaments securely in a sturdy shallow box, making sure not to place too many layers in a single box. One layer is ideal The box should be very sturdy and made of paper. Plastic bubble wrap and or plastic storage containers do not allow the German glass ornaments to have proper ventilation. Particularly if the made in Germany glass ornament is stored in a warm place like an attic or in a humid place like a basement. Also be sure to take care to store your holiday ornaments in a safe, dry place away from water, sun or fluorescent lights and other outside elements. We hope you enjoy your hand blown glass ornaments that are made in Germany.
German glass history of the modern American Santa Claus
Born in the United States of mixed ethnic and religious heritage, Santa Claus embodies the American ideal of the nation as a great melting pot of cultural identities. Santa Claus became an important folk figure in the second half of the nineteenth century, about the time when Americans were beginning to celebrate Christmas in large numbers. Santa Claus bears a good deal of resemblance to his closest relative, the old European gift bringer St. Nicholas. Indeed “St. Nick” serves as one of Santa’s nicknames.
Many popular songs tell of his North Pole and Christmas Eve activities. Nearly every American child can tell you that Santa is a plump, old man with a white beard who wears a baggy red suit and cap trimmed with white fur. Many send letters to his North Pole workshop describing the gifts they would like to receive for Christmas. They eagerly await Christmas Eve, when he loads his sled with toys for good girls and boys and flies around the world, sliding down chimneys to place the presents under decorated Christmas trees. As if to confirm this Christmas fairy tale, men in Santa suits regularly appear on street corners, at office parties, and in department and toy stores around Christmas time.