Fun carrots and risoset with candy: the most expensive Christmas toys in the history of Russia. Exhibition of Soviet Christmas Toy My Collection of Christmas Tasys USSR
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Many of us somewhere on mezzanine or in the closet there is a box with old Christmas tree toys, which our grandparents also used. It is so? We usually do not even think about the fact that such toys can be truly valuable not only because of the memories, but because they have now become collective.
Many of us have older toys have been preserved at home. Those of our grandparents dressed up the Christmas tree for the new year. Usually we get them out of the box and do not even think about their values. It so happened with the 56-year-old Vladimir Schneider from Yekaterinburg. 
Those of our grandparents dressed up the Christmas tree for the new year
Big Kush in Little Storeroom
Vladimir - Colonel of the Airborne Forces in resignation. All my life was dull on garrisons. And recently decided to settle in native Yekaterinburg. He has a parent apartment here. The housing was empty four years ...
- When I moved, I started global repairs. He began to disassemble the deposits of old things. Mom I was very careful - I did not allow anyone to throw out anything, "says Vladimir. - And the pantry at the mother was generally "for family castles". She did not let anyone there, even just see what lies there.
On the dutiful mezzanine, Vladimir found several cardboard boxes. They lay in gentle glass cones wrapped with paper, christmas balls with lace pattern, snowman figures, fairy-tale heroes ... More a hundred toys. 
Those the most toys with which our grandparents dressed up the Christmas tree for the new year
- I first grabbed the head: "Where are they so much?" No tree will endure, - Vladimir laughs. - I decided to throw away. Yes, it was a pity - all the same mom collected them for so many years. Give me, I think I will sell. A penny, which any, reversing. We climbed on the Internet to see how much good can be sold. And painted! Toy 50s Some 50,000 sold, while others and 100,000! It turns out, I found a whole "treasure"!
Look for bunnies on clothespins
It turned out that at auctions collectors are ready to lay out several thousand for rare Christmas toys. For example, the hut on the clothespin buy 5,000 rubles per piece, but for the "star" of the 50s, you can upload up to 50,000 rubles ... 
Toy 50s Some 50,000 sold, while others and 100,000!
- The first Christmas tree dressed in 1937. Then they did more wadest toys, for example, "girl on a swing." The outfit on it sews from the fabric, the face is made of papier-mache and painted. This is a real "retro", - explains the antiques expert Vyacheslav Srebny. - Antique things experts estimate it about 5,000 rubles. But on the Internet, collectors are ready to lay out for such a thing and all 150,000 rubles!
According to Vyacheslav, glass toys that began to do in the 50s are especially popular. Moreover, products on the clothespins are estimated twice as high than on the suspension. 
Then they did more wadest toys, for example, "girl on a swing"
- These toys painted manually, two the same you will definitely not find. For each of them you can rescue 1500 rubles. The toys made by hand the price is 10 times higher than factory, - continues Vyacheslav. - especially appreciated the assembly of toys. For example, a collection of "Fairy Tales about Fisherman and Fish", which was released in the year of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Pushkin. Collect them together are very difficult, collectors hunt them. I saw one toy on the Internet was sold for 22,000 rubles.
For clarity, Vyacheslav pulls out of the Big Santa Claus box. He was made in the 50s. Sybnoy was lucky - he bought it from those who do not know people just 1500 rubles. Now it is possible to sell it for 8000. 
It turned out that at auctions collectors are ready to post a few thousand for rare Christmas toys
According to the expert, the cost of the toy affects its condition: chips can reduce it even 90 percent. The crack on the toy, even if it is overhanded, reduced the price by 70 percent. If the paint erased - then up to minus 30, if it takes off completely, it will be minus 50.
Determine the year of release toys is not easy if it is not specified on the product. But there are catalogs with the history of production factories. For example, a guide-catalog "Christmas decorations 1936-1970" with pictures, descriptions and an accurate date of release.
The most rare today is toys that did from the wool. Behind them - there are glass, then paper and cardboard, and finally, foam. 
Children really liked the old New Year toys
And already in the 80s, the manufacture of Christmas decorations put on flow, millions of glass balls "scattered around the country", and now they are almost in every home. Glass colorful balls are currently 100-200 rubles.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Schneider, having learned about the high cost of his collection to say goodbye to her. Who knows, maybe in a dozen years they will grow even more in price?
"I am not dependent on money," the pensioner says firmly. - Therefore, these wonderful Christmas decorations will leave your grandchildren! And they, if they want - let them sell ... 
These toys painted manually, two the same you will definitely not find. For each of them they will pay 5000 rubles
Paper-Masha's toys were decorated with green beauties before the revolution. Balls with stars, sickle and hammer appeared later, at the end of the 30s of the last century. Then on the Christmas tree hung toys in the form of stars and cosmonauts, corn from glass and even the Olympic Bear. In general, all symbols of our story are collected here. The exposition presents Christmas decorations with Soviet symbolism: balls with a star, sickle and hammer, toys, symbolizing achievements in the field of aeronautics - airships with the inscription "USSR". Almost all toys at handmade exhibition. They were produced with handicraft and semi-pedars. Therefore, even if they were the same form, all figures were signed manually and in different ways, different colors, with different ornaments. At the exhibition, of course, it was not without Santa Claus and Snow Maiden, Christmas toys in the form of birds, animals, cones, icicles and glass garlands.
Montage Christmas toys of the 1920-50s are made by assembling glass tubes and beads with wire. Toys are mounted in the form of suspensions, parachutes, balloons, airplanes, stars. The technology of manufacturing mounting Christmas tree toys came to us from Bohemia, where they appeared at the end of the XIX century.
The theme of musical instruments is reflected in the Christmas toys of the 1940-60s. Christmas decorations in the form of mandolin, violins, drums distinguishes perfect shape and unique hand painted.
With access to the screens in 1937, the film "Circus", all kinds of clowns, elephants, bears and other toys for circus topics have gained great popularity.
In the Christmas tree decorations, I found a reflection of the animal world around us - bears, bunnies, squirrels, chanterelles, birds give the New Year tree a special charm. Issued in the 1950s and 1960s of the last century.
In the Christmas decorations, the underwater world was reflected - all sorts of fish with bright color overflows and an unusual shape. Issued in the 1950-70s of the last century.
In the late 1930s, a series of Christmas decorations on the eastern theme was released. Here and Aladdin, and Old Man Hottabych, and Oriental Beauties ... These toys are distinguished by the Eastern Filigree forms and hand painted.
What a new year without a snowy hut, Christmas trees in the forest and Santa Claus. Sculptural shapes of huts, stylization under covered with brilliant snow roof creates a unique Christmas mood. Issued in the 1960s and 1970s.
Christmas decorations depicting household items - kettles, samovars, began to appear in the 1940s. They are distinguished by the fluidity of the shape and hand painted with bright colors.
Sady frosts from papier-mache and wool in the 1940-60s were coaching figures of the Christmas assortment. They are called that they are pronounced because they were fixed on a wooden stand and installed under the Christmas tree. Since the late 1960s, with the development of plastics and rubber production in the USSR, the coaching figures were made from these materials in a wider assortment.
And with the release of the film "Carnival Night" in 1956, the "Watches" toys with arrows installed 5 minutes before midnight were released.
The symbols of the Soviet state appeared on the Christmas decorations in the 1920s and 30th years. These were balls with stars, sickle and hammer, "Budennovtsy".
With the development of cosmonautics, the flight of Y.Gagarin into space, in the 1960s, a series of toys "Cosmonauts" was released. Christmas toys on a sports topic were issued in honor of the Olympiad-80 in Moscow. The "Olympic Teddy" and "Olympic Fire" occupy a special place among them.
The Christmas decorations "screwed" in the form of peaks are associated with the design of the military owner of the time of Kaiserovskaya Germany: peak tips for the Christmas trees were made there. The Christmas Toy "Bell" was produced in the 1970s. Tolstick decorations are made in the first half of the 20th century. Since glass in those times was thick, with a lead coating from the inside, then the weight of the toys is quite significant. Mostly toys depict owls, leaves, balls.
In the early 1950s, christmas decorations were released associated with China - lanterns stylized under Chinese and with the inscription "Beijing" or simply painted in different variations. Interior items (lamps), nesting and children's toys were also reflected in the shape of Christmas decorations 1950-60s.
Christmas decorations presented in the expositions are made in the technique of "Dresden Cardboard", which appeared at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. In the Dresden factories, the leipzig produced embossed figures glued from two halves of convex cardboard toned with gold or silver paint. Special dresoin masters were famous for the grace and fineness of work.
Christmas-tree toys from Papier-Masha were manufactured until the middle of the 20th century (Paper Masha - Paper Mass, mixed with glue, plaster or chalk and covered with shine and density of bertolet salt). Mostly figures depicted people, animals, birds, mushrooms, fruits and vegetables. Toys from glued cardboard are depicting houses, lanterns, bonbonnies, baskets, etc. They are made according to the following technology: the cardboard is cut down the contour cutting with cuttings and glued with carbon black glue. Paper of various varieties and textiles serves the finishing material. Garlands from the flags were very popular in the 1930s. They were made of colored paper with printed multicolor pattern.
Cartor Christmas decorations presented in the expositions are made in the Dresden Cardboard technique, which appeared at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. In our country, after the 1920th year, the cardboard Christmas toys were made in private workshops and were two glued pieces of cardboard with a slight convexity in the form of a picture. They were covered with foil, silver or color, and then painted with a sprayer with powder paints. As a rule, figures depicted the heroes of Russian folk fairy tales "Kolobok", "Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka", "by whining kettling ...", as well as animals, fish, butterflies, birds, cars, ships, stars, etc. Cardboard Christmas decorations were produced in the USSR until the 1980s.
Toys in the form of fruits, berries (grapes, raspberries, strawberries, peaches, lemons) were manufactured after the Great Patriotic War. In the sixties, in the era of the Board of Khrushchev, toys of agricultural themes prevailed: eggplants, tomatoes, onions, beans, peas, tomatoes, carrots and corn, cobs of all sizes and colors.
The first Christmas "traffic lights" of the 1930s was made with an educational purpose, accurately repeating the location of the color signal. But "traffic lights", which are released in the 1960s, have only decorative purposes - the signals are lit in any order. Silver coil, three girls at the window, Chernomor - characters of famous fairy tales. These toys were released in the 1960s-70s.
A series of Christmas decorations based on the tale of J. Zodari "Chipollino" was released in the 1960s when the book was translated into Russian. Ruler Lemon, Chipollino, Chipollon, lawyer Green peas, Dr. Artichok and other characters - These toys are distinguished by sculpture and realistic painting.
Aibolit, Owl Bumba, Chichi Monkey, Pig Hrew-Khrew, Dog Avva, Sailor Robinson, Parrot Kuro, Lion - Characters Fairy Tale "Aibolit". Issued in 1930-60s.
Over the past 20 years, it collects and restores old children's toys, a special love for Christmas decorations. In his extensive collection there is about three thousand ancient New Year's toys, which found their home in a small room in the Poland of Pioneers on the Sparrow Mountains. Among the Rarity Exhibits of Sergei Romanov there are toys made from the 1830-1840s to the collapse of the USSR, as well as toys from Paper-Masha 50s. We invite you to plunge into the atmosphere of magic and find the old Christmas tree toys from the past.
Angel, early XX century
Boat. End XIX - early XX century
Christmas grandfather. Glass. End XIX - early XX century
Boy skiing, glass balls. End XIX - early XX century
Children on sledding. Cat toys with porcelain faces. End XIX - early XX century
Christmas grandfather. Crescent toy, chromolithography. End XIX - early XX century
Star. Mounted toy. Glass. End XIX - early XX century
Christmas grandfather. Chromolithograph. End XIX - early XX century
Ball in honor of the 20th anniversary of the October Revolution. Glass. 1937 year
Letter Santa Claus. New Year card. Middle of the XX century
Santa Claus. Crescent toy 1930-1940
Snow Maiden. Cotton toy. 1930-1950
Locomotive. Embedded cardboard. 1930-1940
Airships. Glass. 1930-1940
Clock. Glass. 1950-1960
Hare with a drum. Glass. 1950-1970 years
Clown with a snoker. Glass. 1950-1970 years
Glass toys 1960-1980
Lady with snow. Porcelain doll. End XIX - Beginning
Christmas tree with cotton toys. Second half of the 1930s
About our happy childhood to this day resemble Christmas toys that many and now decorate Christmas trees. But not everyone knows that these toys are mostly considered an antiques and can cost decent money.
Of course, in price - the most rare and most toys of the 40-70s. And here we will show, for what toys the real connoisseurs of beautiful and collectors are ready, without thinking, to give a round sum.
1. New Year's abstraction.
These are the abstract icicles, airplanes and pendulums recently began to attract collectors, so they rose in price almost 2 times.
2. Christmas tree jewelry.
Beads for the New Year tree - a rarity today. On modern holidays, they were replaced by Mishur and rain. But real connoisseurs of the warmth of the festive childhood, with great pleasure they will buy such decorations and offer a sum of several times higher than their real cost.
3. Antique lighting.
Today we are accustomed to seeing the same type of diode lanterns on the Christmas trees, flashing with different colors and speed, but during the USSR's times to lanterns on the Christmas tree was a completely different approach. Therefore, such a beautiful garland looks just like a work of art for which it is worth paying a lot of money.
4. Symbols of the USSR in price.
Collectors diligently looking for airships with Soviet symbols and balls with a communist red star. Such toys are not uncommon, but for good condition, these connoisseurs will pay a double amount.
5. Cute house.
The hut with a snow-covered roof is exactly what can be helped with a round sum.
7. Clothespins with decor.
Toys on clothespins in the form of various figures were produced in small batches a certain period of time, so today they are considered relatively rare. If their satisfactory condition is, you can easily make it easier. Take a look, whether it was not silent like something like in a grandmother's chest. For example, for such a red hat, the seller can ask at least 1.5 thousand rubles.
8. Watches for Christmas tree.
No matter how strange it sounds, but in price today, Soviet Christmas toys in the form of hours. Despite the fact that there are many more them, collectors are ready to pay for them, as they differ in design and color scheme.
8. The most expensive of the cheapest materials.
You will be surprised, but the most expensive Christmas toys are considered to be handicapped with corrugated paper and wool. These dolls among the first began to appear on the New Year trees in the USSR. Today they are very rare, as they are made of such materials that are not stored for a long time, unlike glass or plastic. Their price starts on average from 4-5 thousand rubles.
9. Valuable steam locomotive.
Not far in the price there were such steam locomotives of the 40s from cardboard with silver coating, a communist star and the inscription "Locarozoz I. Stalin". These toys were released by limited edition, and before our time there were preserved very little.
Collector Sergey Romanov: "There are very rare positions - Dog hold-enough and leek"
New Year is a holiday outside of time and politics. It would seem that. But everything that happened in our country over the past hundred years has been reflected in the Christmas tree. Sergey Romanov, one of the most famous collectors of Christmas decorations in Russia, told us about the most unique copies.
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From golden angels, homemade nuts and beads from candies to multicolored balls "Slava of the USSR", glass cosmonauts and workers with collective farmers ...
"In the days of the Civil War, at the end of the 30s, even a ball appeared, on which the battle of our aircraft was depicted with fascist, and our, of course, got his enemy," says Sergey Romanov - a historian of toys, a restorer artist. In its meeting, more than 3000 copies.
And if you also add other Soviet toys that are not related to New Year's holidays, it turns out over 12 thousand. "But Christmas tree is a special topic!" - Stresses the collector.
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Everyone remembers the anecdote about unreal Christmas toys. Beautiful, shiny. But you do not please - and that's it! In fact, before we were rejoiced not to toys, but by your childhood. What do you think Sergey Gennadevich is that?
Love for Christmas toys is special. In any house, they still remain from grandparents, they take them only once a year, it turns out, this is also a certain continuous connection of generations.
I was born in 70 meters, I remember from childhood that I was Santa Claus, northern deer. Unforgettable miracle! When I became a little older, busy parents often sent me to sit down to a neighbor, the boy had to take something, and the neighbor aunt Olya delivered a large suitcase from the sofa with ancient Christmas decorations. Summer, heat - and these magic toys from a auty-icy suitcase.
At home I shared my impressions with my parents, and suddenly they tell me that we also have such beauty, grandmother toys. "Why don't we hang them on the Christmas tree?" - "But after all, they are already old ..." Dad climbed on the mezzanine - and here I first saw things completely different on my aesthetics ...
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- That is, what did you become a collector of toys, "to blame" a neighbor?
If it were not aunt Olya, there would be something else likely. From childhood, the world was amazed by the world of old things and photographs from an old album, covered with the knee.
In the life of any little man comes once a wonderful discovery - when he suddenly finds out that Mom, and Dad, and even grandparents were also small ... "Here is your grandmother, she is 5 years old. And on the other she is already 25. " How can it be? This is a delightful revelation! What was the time of other children and other toys ...
So it started my acquaintance with the family history. I, without tired, I asked to show the things of that distant era, find them, and really the grandmother had not only Christmas decorations, but also ancient dolls, perfect beauties with potpier-mache tricks and fragile porcelain heads, and much more.
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- So how did your collection start?
Rather, it was the first push. I was about fourteen, when the kitten, who lived then in our apartment, overturned the New Year tree ... a lot broke. And then friends and relatives simply brought us their toys so that the holiday still took place.
People close to me and then and now, was not sensible to my interest. But in the high school classes, many have not understood my hobbies, had to resist ridicule. The first copies of the collection were chosen on the principle of "Like - do not like". Of course, over time it turned into lover. I actually form a museum fund.
My collection is now museum. And at any time it can be such a museum. Exhibitions are also held regularly. Now, for example, in Kolomensky there is an exhibition "Other Childhood" - there are a toys of the 20-50s of the last century.
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They are antiques. All that older half a century is antiques. That is, all toys made before the 65th year are of interest to collectors. Especially expensive and rare for some reason, decorations from watts are considered, and they are not yet made in Leningrad, they did not supply them during the USSR during the time of the USSR, they only went to the regions, and the Ukrainian toys of the Claudian factory are also valued. The cost of especially rare copies reaches 25-30 thousand rubles, sometimes higher.
It happens that several dozen collectors are afraid of a rare toy. Of course, there are serious people, and there are those who collect on the principle of "sandbox syndrome" - since the neighbor has a machine, then I want the same. Actually, nothing has changed - even though children have grown.
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- I want - and that's it?!
Of course, the market dictates their laws. There are also truly unique things. In general, prices for toys have risen sharply because of the American Kim Balashak, she specially came in in the mid-90s and just bought everything in Izmailovsky Vernisaging everything saw. Traders were immediately crushed.
In those years, there was also a famous flea market in the Tishinsky market. New Year's toys were on it with a seasonal product, and prices for them were quite affordable, then the first Internet auctions appeared - and the value of some lots took off to heaven.
Kim Balashak really became very fascinated by the gathering of our New Year's toys, but sometimes she simply did not know their history, our national mentality, balls with portraits of Lenin and Stalin could still be identified, but the way she described some toys looks like a joke.
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So, Kim acquired a series consisting of several characters: Lisa-football player, a hare-football player, a wolf-football player, a bear-football player ... And I look and understand: this is a fairy tale about the bun!
Or the Nekrasovsky "peasant with marigolds" once called the mullet stronger. So understand our Russian toys and their meaning to foreigners do not always manage. This is a part of our culture.
- They say that the first fakes of Soviet Christmas decorations also appeared approximately.
Yes, it was toys primarily from the wool. There is a fairly simple manufacturing technology. To fake the glass is almost impossible! If only repaint already existing balls for vintage samples.
Kim Balashak paid well for any things, so this type of fraud flourished. After Kim left, fake such things became unprofitable - much more profitable to manufacture their copyright remakes of old, sometimes even pre-revolutionary instances.
So toys of royal times have preserved? Probably, we are the only country in the world where the "Christmas" connection of generations was interrupted by war and revolution. Not to toys were ...
Glass survived a bit. But there were different things on technology. Firstly, from an embossed cardboard, it is a thick-walled cardboard that has been manufactured by a special way, there were toys-surprisions - there, as a penalty, one could hide something. Wadded, from Papier-Masha. There were also pupae porcelain heads ... The tradition of glass Christmas tree toys was not so long ago in about 60s of the nineteenth century.
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- And the first of them began to do the Germans?
Such a legend remains: in the city of Lausha, where glass production was located, one poor glass did not have money at all to buy gifts to their children. And so as not to return home with empty hands, he blew figured toys, balls, suspensions, they could have been hanging on Christmas fir. For the holiday, neighbors came to him and came to a complete delight of such beauty, orders began to make.
Poor glass fuser rich, and the world appeared glass New Year toys. Factory in Laushe works and now. The Germans have taught Russian masters to make such jewelry to the first world war.
Usually, toys ordered toys in rich houses by catalogs. And those who could not afford it, hung on the Christmas tree of delicacies - cookies, candy, nuts in the Golden Foil. But the "delicious" toys losing the fact that they were immediately eaten. Remember the "Nutcracker" of Hoffmann: the laughter with a laughter breaks into the hall with a Christmas tree, instantly breaks all the branches, and the naked barrel is thrown away. But I wanted a longer holiday, the contemplation of the Christmas tree, admirement it.
So in the Ladies' magazines appeared tips, how to make long-playing decorations: Swarte Cleaster, take the wire, wrap it with cotton wool, sprinkle with a crowded mica - such "recipes" printed all self-respecting female publications in those times. Although the traditions of edible toys have retained long enough. Remember, Mikhail Zoshchenko's story, written in 20s, about Lelya and Mitu, who are chosen to the Christmas tree?
- But after the revolution, the tree somehow suddenly came out of law. As a bourgeois relics and class enemy.
Not right away. Arranged as we know, Lenin Christmas tree for children in Sokolniki. But around the 27th year, the Christmas tree really fell into disfavor, the thematic products were not released, the celebration was not welcomed. The younger generation was to be brought up in completely different examples and ideals.
- How did they survive the "repressed" toys?
They were hidden. After all, the holiday wanted anyway. Toy that era survived a little. My grandmother has preserved - she is 1910. Grandmother married in 31 meters year, from the 36th christmas trees were resolved again, Christmas replaced for the new year, and since then the grandmother bribed the new toys every year, folded them into one box with the pre-revolutionary decoration of their childhood: heavy German balls that hung close to the trunk where the branches were thickening; Very subtle Lausky stars, rustling like foil.
Many grandmother's decorations are alive still. Several pieces, however, broke, they are not just so lying, but in permanent operation.
I remember, we had a completely unique Santa Claus in the header, very carefully painted. A grape cluster with dragonfly on the side! Many find something from themselves, similar, and also give me, replenish the collection.
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In total, I have more than three thousand toys now, I have already come down to recalculate them. From the exhibition to the exhibition, and dozens passed them, the range is updated. But you will not keep track of everything.
Many years ago, when I was just started to exhibit, in one of the museums, I will not speak in what, an accident occurred. Part of the collection crashed. The show has already ended, the exposition was dismantled, everything was packed, the acts of acceptance were signed, and suddenly I was offered help - convey the box to the car. I did not agree to anyone, but the lady-employee insisted ...
The road was slippery, the woman slipped, fell and broke two boxes. It was very disappointing, as there were many rare Leningrad toys among the "dead" toys, which in Moscow almost won't meet.
- They were insured?
At that time not. This is the 90s. According to youth, somehow do not think about possible risks. Many broken toys I then restored decades.
And there are such sets that do not buy for any money. Just because they are negligible. For example, they went on sale to a specific event in a year or sold in certain cities.
Many collectors chase over the "Adventures of Chipollino" Janni Rodari. There are very rare positions - a crawler carrot or dog hold-enough, leek. These heroes were sold individually in the 50s when Gianni Rodari only translated into Russian, a cartoon appeared - and a real boom began on the heroes of the book.
The set went out several times, its most advanced version is bunk boxes in which there were about 20 fabulous characters. They were released according to GOST.
- Wow!!!
You do not think that the production of Christmas toys in those times came very seriously. They were part of the ideology of the country. Stalin returned the christmas trees. But at the same time, the concept of their manufacture and the holiday has changed at all, politics intervened, and even the toys themselves became political. Soldiers, cosmonauts, balls with the inscription "Glory to the Soviet people."
After 1936, the factory has become massively producing Chelyuskintsev, Red Army, balls with the image of Lenin, Stalin, Marx and Engels and even small boxes-bonbonnieres in the form of risosets, in which, as in the good old days, it was possible to put candy and hang on the Christmas tree.
The heroes of fairy tales continued to do and then, but at the same time, the figures of children of all nationalities appeared, representatives of the working professions. When they began to be friends in the 50s - began to produce small Chinese. I already told you about the toys about the war in Spain, and I also have a glass ball with a "happy" inscription "Since 1941!" ...
- And who solved, what toys to be? Who chose them topics?
In the Soviet Union there was a toy institute, where the expert commission was employed. All toy projects were supposed to pass through her. The idea could reject the aesthetic or ideological reasons.
Sometimes experts were late with the decision-making, the toy was allowed into the circulation, and later it turned out that she did not respond to the party's lines, it happened that he did not pass on sanitary standards - and then the whole series could be removed from production, and the author who made the liberty to punish. So there are such toys that have been preserved in extremely limited quantities.
Today, the toys do not exist, it was ruined in the 90s. Therefore, there is no more scientific approach to the production of toys. But still, even in the "party" times completely identical toys, there was no and could not be. That is, some basic background and the idea of \u200b\u200ball was common, and then everything depended on the hand of the master. Scribed toys manually. But everything depended on who did them, from what he had in the shower. Even the manufacturer has often had a value. Everywhere were their traditions.
In Leningrad, let's say, more carefully approached the process, their toys came out with strict, deep shades, very restrained by color, concise, right and clear lines, which I personally like it very much, but everyone did a little more krivalenko, alike, but it's fun and fun and heat. So distinguish the toys from each other and find out the era in which they were made, I can easily.
You know, on the Poklonnaya Mountain somehow my exhibition was held in the framework of the New Year's toy festival. There, each Christmas tree represented a certain historical period in the USSR: 30s, the beginning of 40 x, \u200b\u200bwartime, 60 x ... and each era has its own soul. One time toys do not confuse with another.
- But for some reason you stopped at the "Brezhnev" era. Gorbachevsky copies are almost not.
Something has already changed already in the 80 e. She went away, tenderness that was in previous jewelry. Perhaps due to the fact that production was heed.
The masters were not particularly bored: the golden spraying will be made on the glass bowl, they draw some kind of curl - and ready. It is possible that the changes occurring in our country put their imprint. No, the toys of those years are peculiar, but for their time, and at the current 25 year olds, they will undoubtedly call nostalgia someday. But I was limited to the Soviet period. He's closer to me, more, more expensive.
Then I'm afraid to even ask how you feel about numerous Chinese fakes, which flooded all Christmas markets today. It seems to be accurate copies of even the rarities of the nineteenth century, beautiful, shiny, and - as in the anecdote - do not please. For what criteria you decorate your New Year tree - after all, all 3,000 toys do not hang on it at all?
And when how. But I always try to withstand a single style: either this is German Christmas, or Sotozart, sometimes I hang exclusively toys of my childhood, the 70s of the twentieth century. Neighbors make each time: what can it be? Come and are usually surprised that they have not guess again ...