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Christmas ornaments are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to festoon a Christmas tree. more...

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Ornaments take many different forms, from a simple round ball to highly artistic designs. Ornaments are almost always reused year after year, rather than purchased annually, and family collections often contain a combination of commercially produced ornaments and decorations created by family members.

Santa Claus is a commonly used figure. Candy canes, fruit, animals and snowflake imagery are also popular choices

Lucretia P. Hale's story "The Peterkins' Christmas-Tree" offers a short catalog of the sorts of ornaments used in the 1870s:

There was every kind of gilt hanging-thing, from gilt pea-pods to butterflies on springs. There were shining flags and lanterns, and bird-cages, and nests with birds sitting on them, baskets of fruit, gilt apples, and bunches of grapes."

The modern-day Christmas ornament was originally invented in the small German town of Lauscha in the late 16th century.

Notes

  Lucretia P. Hale, The Peterkin Papers. 1960; Houghton Mifflin;   German Christmas Ornaments;

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Angels, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Animals, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Baby, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Bears, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Bells, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Birds, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Candies, Cookies, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Cars, Trains, Planes, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Cartoon, TV Characters, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Cats, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Dogs, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Elves, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Horses, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Houses, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Mice, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Mixed Lots, Sets, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Nativity, Religious, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Other, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Other Animals, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Patriotic, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Reindeer, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Rudolph, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Santa, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Shoes, Handbags, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Sleighs, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Snowflakes, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Snowmen, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Sports, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Stars, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Stockings, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Trees, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal
Wreaths, Ornaments, Christmas: Current (1991-Now), Holiday, Seasonal

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