This is fascinating. I collect snow globes from the places I've visited and the wooden villages...or whatever you call them. I put them above my office door. Do you understand what I'm talking about?

I also have a travel clock from 1920 and a top hat box, complete with the top hat. The man was from CA who owned it as his name is on the inside of his traveling hat box. They sure had small heads back then.

I brought a snow globe home from Paris and my husband knocked it off the counter, shattering it into little pieces. Have to buy another one on my next trip to see my sister. Kind of a pain to carry it on the plane tho.