Now sought after by Christmas-crazed collectors ... with larger manufacturers in Germany, Poland and beyond and, for a time, it was among the bigger glass ornament producers in the United States.

It was once one of over 1,500 manufacturers in this part of Eastern Germany, blowing glass ornaments and painting them by hand. But today, most Christmas decorations are mass-produced in China.

Germany is credited with starting ... sell commercially in the U.S. By the late 1800s, glass ornaments became a common decoration for the Christmas tree, according to the National Christmas ...

In Germany, toys were made from molds. Why, they said, couldn't the same thing be done with glass Christmas ornaments? "They said, why don't we make a mold, make them larger," Radko said.

Like the Christmas tree, Christmas ornaments originated in Germany. Hans Greiner began to make glass Christmas ornaments called baubles during the 1800s. These were the first manufactured ...

is one of countless ornaments with no apparent relation to Christmas that can ... of the ornaments are made of glass with a method that was developed in Lauscha, Germany, in the 1850s and brought ...