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EmailDuring the earliest times Christmas tress were left bare or decorated with natural items such as apples, pears or other fruits, nuts, or candies. Eventually as society began to advance other items such as candles, ribbons, and decorated paper were used.
One the most famous first decororated Christmas Trees was the one brought by Prince Albert to Windsor Castle after he married Queen Victoria. The tree was decorated with glass ornaments made by the finest craftsman of day. The next year hand blown glass ornaments were the most sought after ornament. The fondness for German made glass Christmas ornaments made its way across the pond to the United States, some of the most sought after ornaments were imported by the F.W Woolworth Company. This lasted until the start of World War I.
In the 1960′s with the space race was in full swing it was very trendy to have aluminum Christmas Trees with aluminum Christmas ornaments all over the tree. With the boom stock market in the 1980′s it became fashionable to have expensive finely crafted ornaments made of glass, ceramic or other materials. Additionally novelty ornaments became extremely popular with companies like Hallmark starting multi year collector series.
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