My friend Regina has an amazing Nativity collection. I have a set that I picked up at a flea market in Texas that dates back to the early 1920s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Christmas Tree is beautiful. It is located at Fifth Ave and 82nd St in NYC. There is a vivid 18th century Neapolitan Nativity Scene embellished with lifelike silk-robed angels hovering above the candlelit spruce. It is dedicated to the late Loretta Hines Howard who began collecting creche figures in 1925 who conceived the idea of putting together the Roman Catholic custom of elaborate Nativity scenes with the tradition of decorated Christmas trees that developed among the Protestant people of Northern Europe.
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