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INTRODUCTION

My  encounter  with  glass  Christmas  tree  Ornaments  began  with
the  discovery  of  Bohemian  glass  beads  in  the  collection  of  the
Technical  Museum  in  Vienna.  They  had  belonged  to  the  socalled
  collection  of  factory  products  and  up  to  the  time  of  the
“discovery”  practically  no  notice  had  been  taken  of  them.  In
1994  I  devoted  an  exhibition  and  a  book  to  the  subject  of
“Beads  from  Gablonz.”  Logically,  this  led  to  the  publication  of
“Glass  Bead  Christmas  Tree  Ornaments”  (1995)  which  is  now
followed  with  the  present  work  on  “Glass  Christmas  Tree  Ornaments ­
  -  Austria-Czechoslovakia.”
A  documentation  of  this  kind  was  both  inspired  and  made  possible
  by  a  Contemporary  Company  catalogue  that  turned  up  unexpectedly.
  Specialized  literature  already  published  often
treated  the  subject  of  glass  Christmas  tree  Ornaments  in
detailed  and  knowledgeable  chapters  of  their  own,  but  for  the
most  part  omitted  the  reproduction  of  complete  catalogues,  limiting

  themselves  to  single  pages  (mostly  from  newspapers,
magazines  or  various  kinds  of  advertising  material).
SPECIALIZED  LITERATURE  ON  CHRISTMAS  TREE
ORNAMENTS
Two  publications  stand  out  in  specialized  German  literature
from  recent  years;  they  include  comprehensive  bibliographies:
Christbaumschmuck/Aus  den  Sammlungen  des  Museums  für  Volkskunde ­
  (Christmas  Tree  Ornaments  /  from  the  collections  of  the  Museum ­
  for  Folklore),  Berlin  1992
Wolfram  Metzger-Jutta  Tremmel-Endras:  Bäume  leuchtend,  Bäume
blendend  -  Historischer  Christbaumschmuck  (Sparkling  Trees,
Brilliant  Trees  -  Historie  Christmas  Tree  Ornaments),  Karlsruhe  1996
(from  an  exhibition  in  the  Baden  State  Museum  of  Karlsruhe).

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