Sailor Boy on Gilded Christmas Ship with Original Sail

7 1/4” tall x 8” wide
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***This ornament is made exclusively with all original 120+ year-old materials and is part of VERY UNIQUE AND RARE listing. Our goal was to re-create the whimsical magic of original 1880’s scrap, tinsel, glass, and paper ornaments that we have always fallen in love with but are so hard to find, and make them available to our collectors!***

SPECIAL FEATURES
Some of my favorite and most whimsical original Victorian ornaments are the ones with scraps riding swans, ships, and flying contraptions, so taking this old ship, with most of it’s original materials intact was so much fun!  This red Christmas ship had its original tinsel tail, glass pike, and sail (which I brightened it with metallic Gold paint to bring out the beautiful detailing).  The Glass pike had a beat up old Santa scrap with a missing head so I replaced him with a fabulous scrap boy holding a bouquet of flowers.  He needed just the right sized anchor to attach to the rope he was holding. I only had one the right size, and it was an old Dresden paper! I had collected some rare railing in different hand-painted colors that I bought from a dealer 20 years ago who had found trims in an old warehouse in Europe, and the blue one was perfect! I added own gold chain paper border on the sides of the ship and gave him an original crinkle-wire rigging treatment to include gold braided rope.

Lovingly handcrafted and signed byGail 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.