Picture Gallery
The Dresden ornaments shown here are only a part of what there once was. The gallery will continue to grow over time. For this I need your help. If you have pieces that are not shown here and you would like them to be shown here for all collectors to see and to illustrate the incredible variety of Dresden ornaments, I would be pleased to receive your photos.
To provide some clarity, I have divided the Dresden cardboard objects into categories. Of those pieces of which I was able to find the producer, I have noted this under the picture. Furthermore, I have tried to give further information about the objects, if known (for example, if they were demonstrably used as Christmas tree decorations, as Attrappen, candy containers or for a cotillon tour).
AT = Attrappe, BO = Bonbonniere (candy container), CBS = Christbaumschmuck (Christmas tree ornament), CT = Cotillon tour, HE = Hersteller (producer), HP = Halbplastisch (Semi-plastic)
Acknowledgements
Thanks to the great support of (in alphabetical order) Darla & Jerry Arnold, Betty Bell, Susanne Berensmann-Gauder, Susanne Freericks, Ladenburger Spielzeugauktion, Robert Merck, Katherine Mouridsen, Barbara Slarks, Margrit Utz, Désirée van der Waal, the Zitzmann family and other collectors from Germany and abroad who have provided me with photos of their Dresden cardboard treasures, the picture gallery could be created in its present form. Of course I hope to receive more pictures. For this reason, I would be delighted if many more collectors would share pictures of their treasures with us. Only together can we create as comprehensive an archive as possible of the items produced at the time.
