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Christmas Tree Toppers

The crowning glory of a Christmas tree is the Christmas tree topper. Every child wants to put the decoration on the top of the Christmas tree. Originally, the top was not decorated at all or sometimes only adorned by a candle. Later in the nineteenth century, Christmas tree tops were often decorated with stars, rosettes and angels. Different regions had their own style of tree toppers: for example, the cock for the Pfalz region and for the Nuremberg region the ‘Nürnberger Rauschgoldengel’, which was an angel made from gold foil tinsel.