QUESTIONS FROM OUR WEBSITE
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!