This 2 inch little lady is all gussied up for Christmas in her red dress and matching bonnet.
She is carrying a copper handbag which matches her hair. Her dress is trimmed in silver glitter, which brings out her rosy cheeks. This will certainly be a jolly holiday season for her.
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.
Do not forget your Inge glass wire ornament hangers for your Christmas tree ornaments. To see our glass Christmas ornament hangers, go to the last page of the German Christmas ornaments section.
Glass Was Their Destiny - Glass Is Their Life
A Link Between Christmas Past and Christmas Future
Who is behind Inge's Christmas Heirlooms? The answer is both simple and complex.
In the 1500s in Germany, the glass blower family Muller worked diligently to produce mouth blown glassware of the highest quality for their countrymen and later for others all over the world to enjoy. For nearly as many years, a second family, the Eichhorns produced fine quality glassware to be cherished, as well!
Beginning in the 1860s, the glass blowing techniques of both families were specifically customized for creating Christmas ornaments. As the generations passed, each generation would take great care to share the expertise with the generation to follow.
In the 1960s, young Klaus Muller-Blech, in 14th generations descendant, and Birgit Eichhorn-Jeremias-Sohn spent countless hours in the glass workshops of their grandparents and parents in Neustadt, Germany, learning various aspects of the profession. Both grew to love this vocation and realized it was undeniably ingrained in their spirit. The two glass blowing enthusiasts continued to work in the profession of their forefathers into adulthood.
In 1992, a convention of antique Christmas ornament collectors was held in Reading, Pennsylvania. Separately Klaus and Birgit made the arrangements to attend the convention in order to search for the ornaments of their families' pasts. Through their activities there, they went home with more than the antique treasures they expected. Imagine two Germans traveled over 3,000 miles from the small town of Neustadt finally to meet each other for the first time in the United States!
The rest of the story continues in the style of history's great romances. The two fell in love and were married. The families joined forces and combined their tradition and skills at the inge-glas workshops in Germany. Together their collection includes more than 6,000 antique glass blower moulds dating from the 1860s. In addition, new designs are created each year to represent the Christmas traditions of today.
Inge's Christmas Heirlooms, named for Klaus Muller-Blech's late mother, represents much more than a collection of ornaments. Inge-Glas is still a family operated business with fourteen generations of effort, heart, and soul invested. For generations, inge-glas ornaments have been hand crafted with the skill of their forefathers to make heirloom quality ornaments for others to enjoy.
Adorned with the authentic star crown, inge-glas' trademark, these ornaments are easily recognizable.
Klaus and Birgit Muller-Blech wish to share the joy and excitement of authentic, traditional mouth blown German Christmas ornaments. Just like the ornaments many families in the United States already own, which were past down by their parents and grandparents, Inge's Christmas Heirlooms are for Christmas lovers of all ages and backgrounds to collect and treasure today and for generations to come. The collection is a link between Christmas Past and Christmas Future.