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Department 56 Collection

We have been Dept56 collectors for 5 years now. We collect mainly Dickens Village, with a few Christmas in the City added in. Our first year we had about 20 Dickens Village houses, along with a few Lemax, JoAnn's etc.,  in a 12 x 3 display. Our 2006 display had 68 houses in a 22 ft. long display, totaling about 68sq ft.

The 2006 display also had a working train and a trolley, 2 skating rinks, a real live water fountain and a water park with rowboats in real water. We strive to make our displays lifelike, rather than a store look-alike display, and this has led us to make a lot of our own accessories, including roads, walls, courtyards, sidewalks, trees, statues, mountains and even some people.

Over the past 2 years we have also started using a lot of metal toy soldiers in our displays, mainly from the Wm. Britain's Company in Great Britain. These highly detailed metal soldiers are a wonderful addition and add a touch of the pomp and ceremony which is such a part of England's history.

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