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2. Shiny Brite - Wikipedia

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   The Shiny Brite company produced the most popular Christmas tree ornaments in the United States throughout the 1940s and 1950s. In 1937, Max Eckardt established Shiny Brite ornaments, working with the Corning Glass company to mass-produce glass Christmas ornaments. Eckardt had been importing hand- blown glass balls from Germany since around ...

3. Glass Flowers - Wikipedia

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   The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants (or simply the Glass Flowers) is a collection of highly realistic glass botanical models at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, Massachusetts . Created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka from 1887 through 1936 at their studio in Hosterwitz, near Dresden, Germany, the collection ...

4. Christmas decoration - Wikipedia

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   Figural glass Christmas ornaments originated in the small town of Lauscha, Germany in the latter half of the 19th century. [21] The town had long produced fine glassware. The production of Christmas ornaments became a family affair for many people. Some families invested 16 hours a day in production. For some, it was their sole source of income.

5. Mercury glass - Wikipedia

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   Mercury glass (or silvered glass) is glass that was blown double walled, then silvered between the layers with a liquid silvering solution, and sealed. Although mercury was originally used to provide the reflective coating for mirrors, elemental mercury was never used to create tableware. Silvered glass was free-blown, then silvered with a ...

6. Chihuly Garden and Glass - Wikipedia

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   Website. www.chihulygardenandglass.com. Chihuly Garden and Glass is an exhibit in the Seattle Center directly next to the Space Needle, showcasing the studio glass of Dale Chihuly. [ 1] It opened in May 2012 at the former site of the defunct Fun Forest amusement park. [ 2]

7. Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree - Wikipedia

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   The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is a large Christmas tree placed annually in Rockefeller Center, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States. The tree is put in place in mid November and lit in a public ceremony on the Wednesday evening following Thanksgiving. Since 1997, the lighting has been broadcast live, to hundreds of ...