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Tom A. Jerman

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Born

in Salt Lake City, Utah, The United States

Website

http://www.tomajerman.com

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Genre

History, Biography, Nonfiction

Member Since

November 2018

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I have been a serious collector of Santa Claus figurines and ornaments for more than thirty years, and have amassed a collection of some 4500 figurines and ornaments depicting Santa, one of the largest individual collections of which I am aware. My collection ranges from antique to modern, and folk art to china and crystal.

My original motivation for writing Santa Claus Worldwide: A History of St. Nicholas and Other Holiday Gift-Bringers was to provide a guide for individuals who collected Santa Claus figurines because most of the existing works were outdated and often inaccurate. In 2014, as Chapter 1, the history of Santa and his European counterparts, expanded to several hundred pages, I decided to create a multi-volume work. The second ...more