Brief History of Vintage Christmas Ornaments to Decorate Christmas Trees from Russia.

Here is a brief history of Russian Christmas ornaments. First of all, You should do use a term - NEW YEAR ORNAMENTS, if you speak about glass, wire, cotton and/or cardboard ornaments that were produced in the former Soviet Union – USSR. Why not to say CHRISTMAS ornaments? Well, it wasn't the Christmas in USSR since 1920s until 1990s. Since 1929 year to 1936 year Christmas celebration was prohibited officially in Soviet Union. And some Soviet people were really arrested by Russian communist government during that time period. Soviet people weren't even allowed to celebrate New Year for a long time 1924-1936 years. First New Year Soviet ornaments were produced in Moscow in 1936-1937 years. And as I’ve said above, there were four kinds of New Year ornaments. Glass ornaments, cotton ones, cardboard ones and wire ornaments some later. Oh, I forgot to mention about plastic ornaments that produced in USSR in 1980s too, but that’s not vintage stuff at all.
Beginning glass ornaments were cost much more than those three other ornament’s kinds. And before 1970s all glass ones are painted by hand. Producing cotton and cardboard ornaments was stopped in 1960s. You cannot see angels or other Bible’s characters, because same ornaments were never produced in the former Soviet Union. However, you can watch some of the Soviet Union's historic events if you look on many ornaments from the former USSR. For example, 1950s was the "corn period" in the USSR, and many glass corn ornaments were produced during that period. The "space race" between the USSR and the USA of the 1960s and this mean many ornaments with cosmonauts, space rockets and glass orbital spacecrafts. Animals, birds and fishes ornaments were popular among Russian people.

Welcome to Our Antique and Vintage Christmas Ornament Shop!

Dear Customers! We are glad to offer to your attention antique and vintage Christmas ornaments 1900-1980 years. Our online shop has a large stock of rare and uncommon Christmas ornaments for sale. We are located in Ukraine and USA and we have been in this business over 3 years. We have had satisfied customers in the USA, Canada, England and Germany and we hope you will join to them. We offer our antique, vintage Christmas ornaments at e-bay, and also on our own website. Our goal is your satisfaction with your purchase and we shall strive to meet it. You should buy one or a few of our items to decorate your Christmas tree if even you are not a collector of Christmas ornaments. It will make your Christmas tree a unique display of vintage Russian crafted ornaments.

SHIPPING.

International: We ship items usually the same day as payment is cleared. We provide worldwide shipping and use 1st class air mail. Items will be shipped either from the USA or the Ukraine. Item location will be noted in the description. Delivery takes 2 weeks, but in some cases it may take 3 weeks. If you would rather have registered shipping, please email us. Just contact us if you wish to purchase two or more items and the shipping price for combined items should be arranged for. You could get more by paying less. We use care in every order and safely package all your Christmas ornament purchases.

Within the USA: All of our ornaments offered on ebay will be shipped from our USA location -- Florida Shell Company. Priority shipping is $4.90 per ornament. Higher priced ornaments may have free shipping or you may combine ornaments into a Flate Rate box for $9.00 and up per larger boxes. Please contact us for details.

PAYMENT

Payment can be made in United States dollars for all ebay orders. Payment can be made via Paypal, check or Money Order. DON'T SEND CASH IN AN ENVELOPE. All Payments are made to our USA Location.

RETURN

Customer satisfaction is our goal. We accept returns, merchandise credit and exchange.
Full refund will be issued during 10 days upon receipt of the returned item.