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Antoinette Stockenberg!

Antoinette has done it again this year - bigger and better than ever with a second putz depicting a harbor scene. (She lives on the New England seashore and is a veteran sailor.) With all the triple closeups you can click on, I simply had to conserve site space and loading time, so this year am providing a click-box to take you to her Christmas Page where you can peruse these and Putzes Past at your leisure, and read her lovely reflections on The season.
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The harbor scene, featuring the "new" Lionel #58 lamp posts and several "new" houses.
*VISIT ANTOINETTE'S HOME PAGE*
Christmas village putz houses br The secondary mantel putz.

Check out her little microcosmic story scenes between the houses.Antoinette has never lost that wondrous childlike play-acting imagination that putzes are all about.
Bravo!
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Carl & Emily Rice

The Rice's have done their putz featuring their earliest "First Period" pieces this year ...
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A magnificent collection. Fine pieces all!
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Vintage Photos

Tom Hull captured these online for us. The real stuff from "The Day" Christmas village putz houses vintage 
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"In studying the close up pictures I noticed that they are probably from two different years. Though the set up is very similar I noticed that the small fir branches affixed to the stable are different. Also in the foreground is electric train track and barely visible in the background is part of a tunnel. 1939 and 1940 perhaps? Obviously close in time." Tom







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The wide-radius "0-72" track in the foreground came in in the mid-'30's to accomodate the super "Stream-Line" trains so new and fashionable at the time. Every boy just dreamed of getting a "streamliner!" Though still available in the '30s, the huge "standard gauge" track just visible on the right is of 1920s vintage contruction, showing that these people-whoever they were - had been at this for quite some time. Boy, I sure would like to have seen the trains!
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No trains this year? Definitely from different years...

LOVE these old photos!
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Introducing Jim McLean

Jim's a relative newcomer to the site, but is really into putzing.
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That's a German goosefeather tree, by the way.
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Some really nice houses, here, - classic Barclay figures, and I expect we'll see more in the future.
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Jim says he is getting into making houses of his own. Also, "kit-bashing" of sort. taking old beat-up houses and refashioning them into something new. These appear to be pretty much original, however. Note the balconey-porch and stairwayed "greenspot" in the background. We all love that one!
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Another Old Putz Photo:

Found this one on a very nice site displaying a collection of old Christmas pictures.
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"Hey, Ted, did you catch this single photo with an under-tree putz from that website that Chris sent and that you forwarded around?
[ http://www.squareamerica.com/sa1.htm ]
Not much, but it's something for the archives. Note, too, the mica spilling over onto that Turkoman oriental rug. Lotsa luck getting that out." - Antoinette
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Home Made

I am hearing from more and more folks making their own houses this year. Sue Stewart made these ...
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"My real challenge was to make a house resembling my sister's rather modern house with many windows and decks! I think i succceded in giving it that 'putz' style." - Sue
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Introducing Ted Howard

Ted is from Callahan, Florida also relative newcomer to the site, but is really into putzing,too. His house gets really filled with Christmas every year.
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"Ted. - Another Christmas come and gone. It's the end of January and I almost have all the decorations down. Sixteen trees went up in the house this year along with numerous decorated garlands and all sorts of other fun Christmas goodies. I haven't had much of a chance to build anything else over the past months. But, I hope to start again soon. I thought I'd join everybody else in sending along a few pictures for you to enjoy. These are from a couple of my trees - one in my dining room on a server and one from my living room. As you can tell I find it most enjoying to just put a hodge-podge of things together to make up my little towns.
Keep up the good work and we'll be talking to you again soon."
Ted Howard
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Janet Watt

-found these wonderful old snapshots in an antique shop in Columbia, SC - dated January 1941, which means they were most probably from Christmas 1940 .. Christmas village putz houses vintage 
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That's a 6 foot goosefeather tree!
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Let's try a little blow-up "magic" on that putz...
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That little birdhouse up a pole in the second photo is metal. I have one. Also the little doghouse in the third. It's metal, too - Barclay, I think. I wish we could get these clearer, but Mike and I were working with little 2 1/2" by 3 1/2" snapshots. These are blown up from a little strip along the bottom less than 1/2" high.


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Grandma is looking at one one the boy's best gifts. With a bit of computer blow-up trickery, we can see that it is a lavish hard-bound book on flying model airplane construction. This was as hot with boys of the 1930s as video games are today, but differed greatly as something you could learn real skills from - and share with Dad.
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Barbara Healy -

- caught this old putz photo for us on eBay.
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Very interesting, this, because it's so formal! Castle. Formal grounds. Neat neat neat! Crisp crisp crisp! Perhaps we had a military family, here. Neat-freaks for sure. Those things do tend to go together. We'll never know, but what we do know is that this is OLD! Are those not gaslight fixtures? And do you see any electric lights on the tree? Just a very few glass ornaments, and check out the toys on the periphery. And the sepia tone of the print. I'd put this anywhere between the "Gay Ninties" and World War I. Not a cardboard house to be seen!
Thank you Barbara!
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