Vintage mushrooms, vegetables and fruit – cotton ornaments

The history says, in the 16th century, Germans already had a custom of decorating Christmas trees with real apples, nuts and other food.

Fruits and vegetables on Christmas tree symbolized the affluence in the coming New Year.

Cotton and glass ornaments replaced real foods on the holiday tree centuries later.

Here are presented some Soviet – Russian cotton ornaments.

All these fruits, vegetables and mushrooms came from the end of the 1930s to the middle of the 1950s.

We’ll update this post with new images when we get new ones.

Fruits.

1. Lemon. 80mm.

2. Two plums. 50mm.

3. Two small apples. 50mm.

4. Red apple. 60mm

5. Couple of cherries. 50mm.

6. Pear. 80mm.

7. Pear. 60mm.

8. Couple of strawberries. 60mm.

9. Tangerine fruit. 60mm.

Vegetables.

1. Couple of carrots. 80mm.

2. Cucumber. 80mm.

Mushrooms

1. Fly agaric. 80mm.

2. Mushroom. 60mm.

3. Mushroom. 60mm.

4. Couple of paper mache’s mushrooms. 60mm.

Others

1. Two walnuts. 60mm.

2. Couple of acorns. 50mm.