vintage ceramic Christmas trees have legions of nostalgia-loving fans. You may have inherited one from grandma, splashed out for one on eBay, or scored one in the wilds of a thrift shop.

German immigrants brought their tradition of candlelight Christmas trees to America in the 19th-century and for generations since the search for the perfect tree has been a family ritual.

But Mr Rose feels it is time to say goodbye and give someone else the chance to create a simple, vintage Christmas. It will be auctioned in Staffordshire. Image source, Hansons The tree ...

On a Wednesday afternoon at Flipstone Vintage & Thrift, a secondhand store in Fort Worth, two women are hunting for the perfect Christmas gift. One digs through a bin of scarves, trying to choose ...

“My whole life, I’ve loved vintage when ... decorating Kris’s tree when Kylie and Kendall still lived at her house,” Leatham says. “The family has this love of Christmas and heavy ...

Just as sentimentality had undercut the aluminum tree industry in 1966, it resurrected it in 1996. Suddenly, vintage aluminum Christmas trees gained a resurgent value on the secondary market.

She said vintage Christmas has been a big seller ... at Avenue Collective for the bottom piece of a ceramic Christmas tree that had been broken years before. She held onto the sentimental item ...

In time, these photographic images would be superseded by illustrations – no wonder, considering how overdone and clichéd most of those photographs were, depicting gaudy couples next to decorated ...