My note:11283 4 inch. (10 cm). It is in good condition for its age - please see pictures. After the Great October Revolution of 1918, there was a ban on celebrating the New Year in Russia. However, some people continued to put up Christmas trees at home, but it was not easy to find Christmas decorations in the USSR. It was during this period that the fashion for home-made Christmas toys from improvised materials appeared. In 1935, the ban on Christmas trees was lifted! Factories in the USSR began to produce Christmas decorations, including glass balls with images of Lenin and Stalin. Today it is fashionable to collect Soviet Christmas decorations, they are becoming a rarity. New Year's decorations of the Soviet period attract the attention of collectors, because the history of several generations of the inhabitants of the Soviet Union is reflected in the New Year's decorations. The main characters of the New Year are, of course, Santa Claus (Father Frost) and his beautiful companion - the Snow Maiden (Snow Maiden). Toys and fairy tale characters are especially valued: Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Ivan Tsarevich and other heroes of Russian folk tales. In addition, such Christmas decorations as birds, animals - squirrels, bears, rabbits, dogs, sheep, etc. were popular. In the 1950s and 1960s, Christmas decorations such as sportsmen, Soviet symbols, pioneers, red stars, cars were popular in the USSR. During that time the factories also produced Christmas ornaments in fruit and vegetable shape - corns, eggplant, tomatoes, zucchini, carrots, cucumbers, and other vegetables, strawberry, grape, pear, and lemon. In the 1970s "girls and boys" dressed in national costumes of all the republics of the USSR were very popular Christmas ornaments. After the first manned flight into space, the USSR produced a series of Christmas tree decorations in the form of satellites, rockets and astronauts. Spun cotton ornaments, originated in the Saxony region of Germany back in the second half of the 19th century, during the late Victorian era. These old fashioned beauties were made with cotton batting (and sometime wool batting too), a fluffy, raw looking material made of non-woven fibers. People in those days would wrap and press the cotton batting, by hand, around a metal wire frame. Next, they would cover the ornaments with a starchy liquid to give them a smooth workable surface. Finally, when dry, they would paint the ornaments, and decorate them with glitter, home made paper trimmings, and even cut out paper faces. Traditional spun cotton ornaments were made during the Holidays to be displayed on the Christmas tree. Families would fashion ornaments in the shape of fruits, angels, children, Santa Claus, and even animals. Today, antique spun cotton ornaments are highly collectible. Little information remains regarding how these ornaments were made, despite years of research. A figure that measures 2"-3" often takes several hours to complete. When you purchase the Spun Cotton Ornament, you are receiving a piece of history!