Couldn’t find an exact replacement for our green finial 70s European topper. Mouth blown, hand-painted & -glittered, with 3 indents/reflectors on each ball. Mom paid like $3.50 for it at Kmart. When I see ones like it, they’re $50+. Ours is now retired - the base has been scotch taped multiple times and is V fragile. I hope to find another way to display it!
I looked and looked, and couldn’t even find a green one that made me happy.
It’s a Thomas Pacconi (late of a home shopping network) topper who cost around $30 on ebay. It’s the only reasonably priced one (comparatively typing) who made me anywhere near as happy as our old one.
I’ve decided if we don’t have a tree this year, I’ll flog the lot on ebay. I can’t believe how much ppl are asking for those 70s European ornaments, esp the denty-in kind.
New ornaments are expensive, and I’m esp shocked by the jump in price of the shatterproof ones! No matter how fancy they are, they’re effing plastic, and made in effing China!
Santa on the plane belonged to my wife’s dad when he was a boy, we estimate about 100 years old. He only leaves the protective case for an occasional photo and the cats are not allowed in the same room with it.
It’s also the only thing we own that I would love to take to the Antiques Roadshow.
It’s very course and rigid. The wing easily comes off, there are distinct cut outs for the wing to fit in. It’s like it was a kit that came unassembled and just fit together. May not have been an ornament originally.
When I started dating my wife and her dad(already in his 70s) was still alive it was always in her family tree. It’s one of those things that has always been.
