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Circa: 1950s
Country of Origin: Japan
Manufacturer: Mid Century Japan Import
This boxed 1950s Japan holiday decoration has not just one but three wonderful Christmas putz village houses or buildings trimmed with glass beads, bottle brush trees, mirrors, and diorama scenes. The sturdy houses are 4-3/4" wide by 3" high, painted in red, blue, and pink and liberally dusted with sparkly silver glitter. Each has a colored mercury glass bead fence and two real glass mirrors at the back walls framed in glass beading, a colored foil star above the mirrors. In the foreground of each house is a green bottle brush Christmas tree decorated with wired glass beads and a mercury glass candle.
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Hollow celluloid figures stand next to the trees: a white reindeer in the red house, a Santa Claus figure in the blue, and Santa in his sleigh with a reindeer in the pink.
Each house has a foil sticker on the bottom reading "Pat. Hand Made Japan". The houses are in excellent vintage condition with minor age and storage wear - insignificant thinks like silvering loss to the beads and age cloudiness to the mirrors. The pink house has a paint crack to the left hanging eave but it's not broken. The box bottom is intact with no tears but the inner cardboard holder and the box lid are in poor condition with tears, splits, and badly torn cellophane window. The box is marked simply "Christmas Villages, 3 Pcs. Japan" with a stock number.
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