Non-Christmas Snow Globes

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Although most snow globes have winter and Christmas themes, there are also non-Christmas snow globes available for those who want this fun accessory to display all year around. They are frequently tourist souvenirs, showing the iconic buildings or natural features of a particular place. Other non-Christmas globes feature sentiments like “I Love You” or “Happy Birthday” and can be found in gift stores and card shops.

Snow globes with college and university logos or mascots can be found at collegiate stores near campuses or online. Souvenir snow globes can be found at such prosaic venues as grocery stores, drug stores and museum gift shops. The “snow” in these globes, called flitter, may be the usual white flakes, or it can be glitter or any other appropriately dense granular material.

Sometimes the non-Christmas water globes come with music boxes built in. This can be especially true for souvenir globes from places with recognizable themes songs, like Chicago and New York. Other non-Christmas globes with underwater scenes may have appropriate music installed. That Happy Birthday globe may play The Birthday Song. Musicals on Broadway engender water globes with popular songs and appropriate scenes from the play as water globes as well.

Keep a look out, and you will begin to see these non-Christmas snow globes more ofter than you think. You might even begin a new collection. I’m thinking about starting one myself.

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Glass on Stamps

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One auxiliary collection for a glass collection is one of stamps. Stamps depicting glass may be tied to the glass maker, like Louis Comfort Tiffany, or show examples of ancient glass. Collecting all the stamps with glass on them would be much like a continuing history lesson of glass making from its beginnings. And looking for these stamps makes for a very good geography lesson as well.

To find stamps with glass connections requires a stroll though the various volumes of the Scott’s Catalog of Stamps. Usually available at your local library, one need only page through the volumes, paper or electronic, looking for stamps with glass connections. Creating a list of the country and Scott’s numbers is the first step for making such a topical stamp collection. Note also the Scott’s price, and the price you pay for the stamps will have some relation to the Scott’s price, and not necessarily at full price.

Once you have some stamps on your want list, work with local or mail=order stamp dealers to purchase the stamps you want. You may find some that are too peripheral or too expensive for your tastes, but keep the information in case you change your mind later abou8t including those stamps. You can save the expensive ones as special presents or for work bonuses.

Once you start getting in your stamps, you will need a binder with appropriate pages for holding your stamps. Make sure to follow your dealer’s advice about acid and PET-free stamp pages and binder to protect your monetary investment. You can arrange the stamps in whatever way pleases you, but keep the information of which sets your own as well as the ones you are still looking for, for future reference.

Nearly every hobby shows up on stamps, both US and internationally, at some point or other, so look for the stamps that illustrate your special interests and start a topical stamp collection. Easy to store and arrange, stamps can provide hours of fun as you search for and purchase glass on stamps.

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