Antique Yellow Stocking Candy Container with Life-like Tabby Cat

6 1/4” tall, 11” tall with original knitted hanger

SPECIAL FEATURES

Original antique buckram Christmas stocking is embellished with wonderfully embossed and detailed Tabby cat with Victorian red tasseled collar; antique “A merry Christmas” script; delicate Dresden trim outlined in red tinsel silk cording; beautiful antique embroidered lace remnant from a Victorian garment; vintage ecru cotton chenille with antique miniature glass balls dangling from the sides of the stocking.

Lovingly handcrafted and signed by Gail Giaimo.

THIS ONE-OF-A-KIND ORNAMENT IS MADE ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY WITH ANTIQUE AND VINTAGE MATERIALS to include: glass ornaments from the 1890s to1950s, most of which were made in Germany; colorful Victorian embossed & die-cut paper “scraps” and chromolithographs from postcards and advertising trade cards, made in Europe between the 1870s and 1910; antique and vintage fabric to include chenille, lace, ribbon and metallic trims; antique and vintage tinsel from tree garlands and old-stock German-made Lametta tinsel; gold and silver old-stock Dresden paper trims, crepe paper, foil, gift wrap, spun glass, and other embellishments. Items described as “antique” are dated between 1870 and the early 1900s (prior to WWI). Items described as “vintage” are dated between 1915 (WWI) and the 1950s (mid-century). We also use Dresden trims (only on occasion) and crinkle wire (always used for durability) made more recently in Germany using techniques and equipment that have not changed over the past 150 years.