PUTZES from 2010!
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Antoinette Stockenberg -2010
Again, these are just a teaser - the "tip of the iceberg;" there is SO much more! Visit Antoinette's Home Page for an interactive tour of her new and even more spectacular Mantel Panoramas
- theme this year:
"A River Runs Through It"
with accompanying stories of each and every feature. She has added even more lead German flats, or "Zinnfiguren" and delightful fantasies for them all.
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Better than ever this year!
Dave Erickson
Dave didn't say much, except"Love your website. Keep up the good work!" and sent these spectacular pictures.
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(Trying something new with "Blowups" in the Putz section. this year. What is your opinion?)
Dave certainly knows "how to keep Christmas,if ever a man posessed the knowledge."
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Schwenkfelder Library
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Heritage Center
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November 24, 2010:
Greetings: I came across your website and wondered if you might be interested in some images of our annual Christmas putz. In our case, we don’t always use a tree (though this year we did). We are very fortunate to have the huge putz collection accumulated by one family in Allentown, PA – ranging in date from the 1920s to the 1970s -- to draw upon, and every year it can be different. I think we are the only museum that has an annual putz here in the U.S. – other than the Christmas museum!
This year’s theme is Alpine Village – last year (pictures attached) had 6 tables with different themes.
Please feel free to contact me with questions! We love our putz!
Candace Perry
Curator
Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center
Pennsburg, PA
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"Boxcar" Jack Ahearn
Jack sent these pictures of a compact, yet exquisite little putz - reminiscent of the simple-oval dealer displays of the early 1920s. The train is definitely of that vintage.
It proves that putzes needn't cover acres to acheive that "Christmas Feeling." I see a mix of everything here. "Pinevilles," pre-War Dolly Toy and Japanese as well as early Lionel trackside telephone and signal poles.
Jack and I share a special-favorite feeling for the peasant-hut with the passageway through the middle. I remember the day my Mom brought a set of "Pinevilles" home from downtown Johnstown, Pennsylvania - Johnstown's very central "Penn Traffic" department store. I have visual memories that can peg that year to 1945. My brother Jim had just been born the summer before and was just now crawling - a putz-Godzilla-threat-to-everything, and he drooled! They were so much more interesting than the simple white Dolly Toy set that had endured the War. Jack wondered why I christened them the "Pineville Set," but that was the name on the railroad station and they always told the town in which you had arrived. Aside from that, little is really known about the "Pinevilles." They are definitely American made Wartime production, appearing in mail-order catalogs as early as 1943. Whoever made them sold millions because they still turn up at flea markets and antique shops regularly, but as to what company made them and where? This remains to be known.
Robbie Lucke
- of Montana
This is Robbie's for this year.
What more is there to say about Robbie's ever-growing collection, except to enjoy?"
"Papa" Ted
This is a link to a Christmas Putz article that the Pittsburgh Post Gazette did on me this week (Dec.18 edition.)
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Gosh,that picture! Maybe you can bear it, but it's got me thinking I need to sell my collection and go shopping for a cemetary plot ...
Barb Healy
Barb's annual hardware store window!
The collection is growing by leaps and bounds!
Her theme this year is Santa looking down on the sleeping, peaceful town.
I am awaiting a story connected with this. All I know is how I envy that great "FlatIron Building" center. Would you believe "Papa" Ted hasn't got one? So - anyone out there with an excess of these cluttering up the place, please keep me in mind?
