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Catalogs Bring Christmas Cheer With Odd and Grand Gifts
A Nebraskan or national reader learns catalogs arrive with fall, delivering items from silver cacti to windmills and diamond snowflakes. Sears shifts to pickup catalogs, while Horchow and Williams-Sonoma tease luxe collectibles. Jewelry, furniture, tapestries, pet gear, and novelty gadgets flood pages as mail order thrives.
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Jane
Harry Willson
Albany, Ga
Horchow
Neiman-Marcus
Kenton
Iran
China
James
San Francisco
Williams-Sonoma
Tiffany and Co
New York
Tiffany’s
Saks Fifth Avenue
Paris
Cluny Museum
Sportpages
Trifles Holiday
London Transport
Hammacher Schlemmer