Made in the old German tradition,
wearing a blue hooded coat, the Blue Santa looks
quite different from today's Santa. The modern
Santa, with his red suit trimmed in white and
stocking cap, originated in 1931 as an advertisement
for the Coca Cola Company. He was the creation of
illustrator Haddon Sundblom. After the turn of the
20th century, German figurines of Santa, made from
papier-mâché, were imported to the USA. The
production of the American-made ceramic Santa
figurines didn't return until the late 1910s and
early 1920s. Continue...
A Wishing Santa
