Fanciful Birdcage on Highly Detailed Glass House Ornament

7” Tall x 2 1/2” Wide; hangs on a tree branch with a gold thread that is attached to the wire loop above the ribbon.  View all the pics and close-ups!

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***Our ornaments are almost exclusively made with vintage and antique materials 1880s-1950 (all colorful die-cut paper illustrations are 120+ years old). Scroll past Special Features for details***

The exquisite detailing on this ornament just won’t quit! This is what happens sometimes, when I go crazy and just do what my detailed mind and heart want and disregard how long it takes.  I selected a very fancy French scrap birdcage and literally redesigned it by adding my own plants around the cage. I found I had some antique silk doll’s ribbon that perfectly matches the ribbon on the birdcage illustration, so virtually it fools the eye until you look close up to see which is paper and which is fabric. I selected a glass house ornament (an early one probably from the 1930s), and totally decked it out on all four sides with my own Dresden papers, including columns, turrets and railing from a gold Dresden paper cathedral.  I attached the finished house to the birdcage with decorative wire curved in graceful curlicues and wound my old dolls ribbon around the wire to make it all look like part of the original illustration.

Lovingly handcrafted and signed by Gail Giaimo

Our Signature Style - To Make an Ornament for You that Lasts for Generations! You will know you have a ultra-custom Dresden Star Work of Art because we sign and date each and every ornament, as well as add our gold hang tag with your specific ornament’s unique one-of-a-kind inventory number on it. You will receive your ornament gently packed between layers of tissue paper in a beautiful embossed gold box with care and handling instructions. With over 15 years of experience, we are expert at wire-wrapping each ornament to help protect it against accidental breakage (just like those smart Victorians). We take extra time and pains to meticulously back every scrap to cardstock and old-stock papers to protect these beautiful and fragile illustrations so they will last for generations to come.

Just Imagine, You are Viewing an Ornament made with Materials 60 to 150 Years Old! Dresden Star Ornaments are almost exclusively made 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.

Since many of our creations contain glass ornaments that are as much as 120 years old, the condition and patina will vary, which this is part of their vintage one-of-a-kind charm and character. Items described as “antique” are dated between the 1870s and 1920. Items described as “vintage” are dated between the 1920s and the 1950s (mid-century). We also use newer Dresden trims (on occasion) and crinkle wire (to wire-wrap ornaments for durability) made more recently in Germany using techniques and equipment that have not changed over the past 150 years.