Contemporary Glass Shoe Ornaments # 020 and #021
These two Christmas ornaments are very popular, made from delicate glass, often with lots of color, detail and glittery accents. This ornament has been hand-blown (or is it mouth-blown) and hand-painted.
This ornament, a women’s ‘Victorian slipper,’ is 4 1/4″ long x 1 1/4″ wide X 2′ high. It has a solid painted gold sole.
Its identifying marks are a 1/2″ gold metal heart with inscription in a fancy font, OWC and the letters OWC also marked vertically, covering the gold ornament attachment. OWC is the identifying mark for Merck Family’s Old World Christmas set of ornaments.
This is a similar style ornament, that of a high top sneaker, made by the same company, OWC.
These delcate glasses are hand painted and decorated individually.
Front of attached tag.
Back of tag.
Both of these were given to me in 2001 for Christmas presents by my son and daughter. JE gave me the slipper and JA gave me the basketball shoe (the year he graduated from high school,)
As noted on the tag, these ornaments were purchased in new condition for $7.95. They are both acquisitions for the Christmas Ornament Collection of the Lillian P Wood Memorial Collection. Country of orogin is not noted.
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Man you have been working on this! The last time I looked here there were maybe two shoes sitting here in the dark. Well, maybe not in the dark. But these are more brightly lit if I remember correctly. Better.
Now you need some keywords! So the world will come to your door. And with this niche I bet they shouldn’t be too difficult to find. I will try to find one or two and let you know!