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Village Cottage Collections
Small cottage collections are very familiar with women and men alike. These are used to create cozy and scene old world towns in the miniature. These cottages are a lot popular to place into the model train exhibits. The small scale trains and the small cottages complement each other. They look great on the table, shelf or on the mantle. Enthusiasts of the model trains meticulously recreate the realistic scenes with trees, tracks, trains and cottages. There are several collections of cottages. Some of them are:
David Winter Cottages:
These are the English cottage collections from David Winter. The David Winter cottage features thatch roof, charming half timbered creations. There are houses, village shops, churches and castles. The cottage collections contain everything that you require to recreate town or e village.
Following is a list of David Winter Collections:
Collectors Guild, The King Arthur, Oliver Twist collection, The Pilgrim's way, Victorian Rhyme, Winterville, west Country, The Haunted house, Welsh Collection, Seaside Boardwalk, The Shires Collection, Sherwood forest, Crafts, The Traditional, The Dinner Party, Scottish Collection, The Regions, In The Country, Porridge Pot Alley, Christmas Cottage, Annual, The Cameos, Plate Collection, Neptune's Staircase, Midlands collection, General Collection, Irish collection, The eccentrics, Churches and chapels, Heart of England, Classic collection, Pubs and Taverns, crack the code, The English Village, The Dickens Collection, Celebration Cottages, Castle Collection, At Center of the village, British Traditions.
Department 56 Collection
Department 56 recreates the villages with colorful and charming details.
The Alpine Village Series: Bavarian and Alpine Style Villages.
Christmas in City Series: Unusual businesses and shops
Classic Cars: Model vintage trucks and automobiles.
Dickens' Village Series: customs, architecture, and history of the Victorian England, with the quaint accessories and buildings.
Dickens' Christmas Carol: Houses from classic Christmas tale.
Original Snow Village: A Small American town.
Original Snow Village Easter: A Village decorated for the Easter.
Celebrate the Love: The Valentine's cottages.
Original Snow Village Halloween: a Spooky Halloween Village.
Lilliput lane Cottages
The Lilliput Lane was establishes by David Tate in 1982, whose aim was to create most accurate miniatures architecturally the world has ever seen. The Lilliput Lane cottages are popular for attention to authenticity and detail. The Lilliput Lane cottages are made by hand England by the skilled craftspeople. The Lilliput Lane cottages are kept in sale in 50 countries and more and are collected by several hundreds of enthusiasts. The Lilliput Lane handcrafts gardens, castles, cottages in miniature, in order to adorn a fireplace table or mantle.
Following is the list of several Lilliput Lane collections:
The Retailers Collection
The Collectors Collection
The Irish collection
The British collection, Wales and Scotland
The British Collection, England
Christmas, Snowed
Department 56, Lilliput Lane and David Winter are the most collectible and best known of miniature cottage collections. Like in the most collectibles, individual pieces are made introduced and then retired after some period. A limited availability as this offers the cottages the collectible value.