The Most Popular Christmas Ornaments (From Old World Christmas Ornaments Website) - Page 2

Thought to have originated in 16th century Germany, the first Christmas ornaments were nothing like what we know today. Small evergreen trees were decorated with candles, apples, nuts, and berries. German immigrants brought this practice to America in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the late 1840s, a published drawing of England's Queen Victoria celebrating Christmas with her German-born husband, Prince Albert, and their family with a decorated evergreen tree transformed the practice into a fashionable one that wealthy Americans rushed to adopt. By the 1890s, Woolworth's Department Store in the United States was selling $25 million in German-imported ornaments made of lead and hand-blown glass.

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