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It’s the holiday season, but where are all the CAS holiday figurines? The“CAS Mailbag” addresses that issue!.

 

Dear CAS Collectors:

 

I LOVE Christmas! I especially like filling the house with holiday ceramics, and have had good luck finding many by artists like Betty Lou Nichols and Brad Keeler. But where are the ones by Ceramic Arts Studio? So far, I haven’t found any! If you can point me in the right direction, it really will be a Merry Christmas for me, my hubby, and all the rest of us up here at the North Pole!

 

Mrs. S. Claus

 

Dear Mrs. Claus:

 

Well, if you’re the “Mrs. Claus” I think you are, you will be happy to know that Betty Harrington did design one Christmas-related figurine for Ceramic Arts Studio: 1953’s Santa. A tiny fellow (just 2-1-4” high), he came with his very own Evergreen. (Of course he had to share that with the CAS Paul Bunyan, released the same year.) As with other Studio “reds,” the red areas on Santa were cold-painted, meaning the paint is subject to flaking. But a diligent search (and your hubby probably knows all the best places to look), is sure to turn up an undamaged Santa.

 

We’ve never received details on why Betty and Ceramic Arts Studio released so very few holiday-related ceramics. (Maybe just too busy with all those 1000-plus other figurines?)  But, if you do pick up a CAS Santa this Christmas, we guarantee the big fella at your house will be ho-ho-ho-ing with happiness!

 

And with that, the drawstrings are pulled tight on this issue’s edition of the “CAS Mailbag.” For answers to your CAS-related questions, just send them to Donald-Brian Johnson’s attention at: donaldbrian@msn.com. Hopefully, he may even be able to come up with the correct solutions! 

 

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