Description: This Original Vintage 1800's Victorian Antique Die Cut Ornament has a gorgeous Angel and a big bright yellow Star. The angel wings are stunning and have a pink, blue and gold tint to them. The angel's hair is blonde with brown accents. Her gown is light blue accented with gold. She is carrying a basket horn of plenty with flowers in it. There is one beautiful pink rose floating dwon from the horn of plenty. The face and arm are like porcelain.
History of Die Cuts: " During the Victorian Era (1837-1901), middle-class households would often have a family scrap album, where the bits of paper collected each day could be collages onto its thick pages. Ticket stubs , brochures , greeting cards , newspaper clippings, paper dolls , postcards , business cards, ribbons, literary excerpts, and eventually photographs were all preserved on the pages of these memory books. In response to the scrap booking trend, 19th-century bookmakers designed blank albums with elaborate, tooled-leather covers, gilt paper edgings, and engraved clasps. The earliest materials explicitly produced as die-cut “scrap” for decorating homemade albums were black-and-white, hand-colored etchings. As lithography processes improved, bright colors, textured embossing, and glossy finishes were employed to enhance the printed imagery. By the late 1800s, Britain, Germany, and the United States had become the leaders in such scrap production. Successful companies like Currier & Ives and Raphael Tuck & Sons created beautiful scrap pieces alongside smaller brands like Allen & Ginter and Littauer & Boysen. But the German die cuts are considered the best because of the details of their tooling process."
Measures 6-1/2" W x 12" H. including the tinsel. The star is missing one tip of one of it's points.
Condition: Corners a nd edges are sharp. The die cut in embossed.
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11/2015
Nancy