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These Santa In Sleigh Christmas Figurines are 7½ inches tall and 11 inches across. The Santa Christmas Figurines show Santa in his sleigh guiding his team of reindeer over the tree tops and holding a small bird in the palm of his hand. Santa is wearing a red Santa suit and matching Santa hat, with beige fur trim and blue and gold edging around the sleeve cuffs and the cuff of the hat. The sides of Santa’s sleigh are midnight blue with two gold snowflakes with iridescent glitter highlights and stars on the back of the sleigh runners. Santa’s reindeer have matching red saddles with gold and black trim and green blankets with iridescent glitter. The base of the Santa Christmas Figurines is 6½ inches long and 2 inches deep and has four two inch tall, snow capped pine trees. The Santa In Sleigh Christmas Figurines are mostly made of metal, Santa and the reindeer are made of resin.
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History of the Sleigh.
A sled is a vehicle that has parallel runners instead of wheels, so that it can move easily over snow or ice. In the Far North, where snow and ice cover the ground for many months of the year, sleds are the chief means of transportation People in parts of Alaska and Canada’s Yukon Territory travel on sleds pulled by huskies.
Alaskan sleds are built to stand the roughest travel. The most common Alaskan sled is the Nome sledge, a long, narrow type with basketlike sides. A good team of dogs, hitched to a Nome sledge, can haul 1,000 pounds of cargo. The Nansen sled, made of wood and lashed with rawhide, is wider and lighter than the Nome sledge. A 30 pound Nansen sled can carry a 600 pound load. Sleighs called Troikas are used in Russia. They are drawn by horses or reindeer. In Lapland, reindeer pull sledges carrying heavy goods.
In early times, people made sledges from logs tied together. The sledges were used to haul cargo over both snow and bare ground. Later, people found that the sled would move more easily and quickly if wooden slats, called runners, were fastened beneath the logs.
Some North American Indians used a toboggan sled that looked like a canoe on a pair of runners. The Pilgrims made sleds from a box set on runners.
After 1870, the coasting sled came into use in the United States. The original coasting sled was the Clipper type. It was built low, with long, pointed sides and runners of round steel rods. The “girls sled was a light, short box, with high, cutout or skeleton sides and wide, flat runners. The double runner or Bobsled is formed of two clipper sleds joined end to end by a board. The rider steers the sled by means of ropes, a wheel, or a crossbar. Four to 10 people ride in a bobsled. Specially designed bobsleds of steel and fiberglass are used for racing in winter sports events.
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Information on St. Nicholas.
St. Nicholas lived in the late third and early fourth centuries. Very little is known about his life. By the middle ages, however, he had become one of Europe’s most venerated non biblical saints. In France and Germany more than two thousand churches carry the saint’s name, bearing silent testimony to the intensity of past devotions. St. Nicholas was the Christmas season gift bringer in parts of northern Europe. His legend and the customs surrounding it traveled to America with European immigrants. In the United States St. Nicholas was transformed into Santa Claus. His new American name evolved from his old Dutch name, Sinterklass. Although Nicholas’s popularity has declined considerably since medieval times, some Europeans still celebrate his feast day, which falls on December 6.
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