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previous year. Industry experts estimated more than 22 million US households collected
Christmas ornaments, and that 75% of those households collected Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments. By 1998, 11 million American households collected Hallmark ornaments, and 250,000 people were members of the Keepsake Ornament Collector's Club. There were as many as 400 local Keepsake Ornament Collector's Club chapters in the US.
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Christmas cross and started researching how to obtain a first edition one. By the following year, Scroggins's had collected nearly 1,000 silver and silverplated ornaments from past years and editions. Through meetings with secondary market dealers and other collectors, she learned about
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started manufacturing
Christmas ornaments. The first collection of 18 ornaments, including six glass ball ornaments. Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments are dated and available for just one year. In 1996, the ornament industry generated $ 2.4 billion in total annual sales, an increase of 25% over the
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and materials including German keugel or blown-glass, porcelain, pewter, tin, paper, and crystal. Many ornaments in the collection are from Europe, particularly
Germany. By 1994, Scroggins's ornament collection numbered 250,000 pieces.
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a few weeks before
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Kelly, Katy (24 Dec 1992). "Holly Jolly Hang-ups: Ornaments Aplenty Light Up Her Life".
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ornaments in 1972 following the unexpected and sudden death of her then-husband from a
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