Ornaments by theme
Three shelves to start
Theme collecting is how most people actually collect, whether they say so or not: one more Santa, one more bird, the ornament from every year of a marriage. These shelves read the great subjects the way the Cabinet reads materials. We open with three and would rather add shelves slowly than pad the wing.
The man himself
Santas
Belsnickles, Weihnachtsmänner, and the American Santa: how one figure became a thousand ornaments.
Visit the shelf →The menagerie
Animals & Birds
Clip-on songbirds, spun-cotton nests, and the whole unlikely zoo the tree has always welcomed.
Visit the shelf →Years in glass
Commemoratives
Museum lines, dated keepsakes, and the ornaments whose whole job is to remember something.
Visit the shelf →