Animated Musical Gingerbread Tree

A sugarplum vision, this faux frosted Animated Musical Gingerbread Tree with candy and gingerbread gift cookies looks good enough to eat. Turn on this Animated Musical Gingerbread Tree and the candy-laden train circles the illuminated gingerbread tree on its licorice tracks while Jingle Bells and other carols play. On/off switch; volume control. Resin. Felted underside. Takes 3 AAA batteries (not included).  7"h. x 6.5"dia.

Museum Provenance

This Animated Musical Gingerbread Tree is inspired by a design or illustration in our Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, located in the Archives Center of our National Museum of American History, Behring Center. A vast assemblage of business ephemera, the collection includes Victorian-era postcards, greeting cards, letterheads, catalogues, advertisements and commerce-related memorabilia. Acquired by the Smithsonian Institution in 1967, this group of over one million items was the collection of Isadore Warshaw, a New York bookseller, who was concerned that the business community lacked interest in preserving its past.

Every Smithsonian purchase will arrive with a museum provenance card explaining how it is adapted from or inspired by an object or objects in our collection.