Department 56 Disney Tinker Bell’s Tree Home 56.59197 New In Box

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Department 56 Disney Tinker Bell’s Tree Home 56.59197 New In Box. A collectible Disney item from Department 56. If you are looking for department 56 disney tinker bell s, this is the one to grab while it is still available. Full details and specifications from the original listing follow below.

Department 56 Disney Tinker Bell’s Tree Home 56.59197 New In Box: Product Details

New In Box – Retired – Very Rare!
We Borrowed someone else's picture because ours is still new in the box sealed!
Tinker Bell's Tree Home Water globe
Beautifully detailed with flora and filled with starlight.
5.75 x 5.5 x 5.75 inches

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About Department 56

Department 56 village pieces: lighted Disney and Halloween village houses and accessories for your holiday display.

Department 56’s Disney pieces bring the company’s village craft to the most licensed characters in the world. Tinker Bell, Peter Pan’s fairy, is one of Disney’s longest serving icons: she opened television broadcasts, flies over the castle in the studio’s classic logo tradition, and leads her own film series, so her tree home is a subject with an audience well beyond village collectors. A water globe treatment suits her perfectly, because Tinker Bell’s signature is pixie dust, and the starlight filled globe described in the listing puts that sparkle inside the piece itself. Department 56 produced its Disney range with the same hand finished detail as its villages: sculpted flora, painted finishes and subjects chosen from the animated classics. As with all Department 56 production, the piece was made for a limited span and then retired, and the dimensions and item number in the listing are the catalogue identity of the piece. Disney collectors and village collectors bid against each other for the retired Disney releases, which is why a new in box example, sealed as this one is described, is the form of the piece most in demand.

A water globe is one of the oldest forms of souvenir, and it suits a fairy subject better than any other in the Disney catalogue. Sealed inside the dome, the figure sits in a manufactured weather of glitter and starlight that moves when the globe is turned, so the piece is not entirely still even on a shelf: it catches light and motion in a way a plain figurine does not. Globe making is a specialist craft, the clarity of the glass or resin dome, the sealing of the base and the suspension of the glitter all determine whether a globe stays bright or clouds with age, and Department 56’s Disney globes were made to display standard alongside the company’s porcelain work. Tinker Bell’s Tree Home, as the listing describes it, sets the fairy in the flora of her own world rather than on a plain base, which connects the piece to the later Tinker Bell films’ Pixie Hollow setting as well as to Peter Pan itself. The globe format also explains the piece’s measurements, close to a cube, because the dome and its decorated base are proportioned as a single self contained scene.

Department 56 made its name by inventing the lighted Christmas village, and its Snow Village Halloween line applies the same craft to October: porcelain and ceramic buildings and accessories, hand painted, designed to be arranged into a miniature world and lit from within. The Halloween range grew into a collecting field with its own landmarks, monsters and in-jokes, and its accessory figures and sets are what give a village its scenes: characters at smaller scale than the buildings, posed to tell a story on a shelf or tabletop. Department 56 releases follow a pattern collectors know well: pieces are introduced in a given year, produced for a limited span, and then retired, after which the only supply is the secondary market. The introduction information and measurements in the listing are the catalogue facts for the piece, the data village collectors record as they build a display piece by piece and season by season. Because the villages are arranged rather than simply shelved, scale consistency matters, and Department 56 accessories are made to the village scale so a figure group from one year stands naturally beside buildings from another.