Detailed History of the Christmas Reindeer

 

"Detailed History of the 

Christmas Reindeer" 

told by Diamante Rubber Duckie  

2012

The Christmas Reindeer is linked with Santa Clause riding on his sled starting at the North Pole and delivering toys to children around the world.  Santa's sled is coupled up with eight reindeer fliying through the night sky, on a mission to circle navigate the Earths circumference in one single night,  placing gifts under Christmas trees. 

Fact;- Reindeer are found in the Artic and subartic regions of Northern America.  Asia and Europe.  To suite these harsh climate regions reindeer coats are insulated by thick, multi-layered dense fur.  

Several thousand years ago reindeer came to become early domestic animals,  whilst being known as a symbol of Christmas time.  Creative pieces, keepsakes and collectibles were made by carpenters who carve wooden reindeer,  potters, painters and even native rock paintings have encryption of  reindeer. Even today reindeer identity is now yearly associated with the Christmas season. 

Fact;- Life span is 10 years, male reindeer a called bulls and females are known as cows,  babies are calves. Reindeer shed their antlers every year,  female usually shed after they have given birth to their offspring.    

Major Henry Livingstone Jr, in 1907, wrote the legendary Christmas rhyme 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. Clement Clare More who was respected educationist made may alterations to this piece.  This tale told, encased the names of  the reindeer that drove Santa's sleigh, known as Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder and Blitzen. 

Historical American department store  Montgomery Ward, acquired the help of writer ad author Robert L May to write booklet.  May wrote the story "Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer" in 1939.  Later Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer story was transformed into song lyric.  The lyrics for the song were developed by John Marks who was also May's brother in-law. 1949,  Gene Autry recorded the song telling tale and selling over two million records within twelve months.  The strength of the story has been phenomena,  with many more adorned tales told about,  Rudolf.   

Fact;- Sense of smell for reindeer is overwhelmingly strong.  Arctic food is relevantly scarce, reindeer need to burrow deeply beneath the surface snow in order to locate grasses, lichen, willow and type of leaves from birch tree. Reindeer are also known to forage on mushroom, vegetation and bird eggs.  

 Diamate Rubber Duckie is credited for this artical, however it's little difficult for her to type with flapping feathered wings therefor Diamante Rubber Duckie required PA assistant Kelly utilizing her human fingers to type Diamante Rubber Duckies piece, "Detailed History of the Christmas Reindeer"   

Most importantly don't forget to feed the Reindeer in Christmas season.

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Rubber Duckie History

www.rubberduckie.net.au Rubber Duck History The history of the rubber duck is not known. It is not known when the first rubber duck ever made. We can assume it was made about the time rubber was first being used more and more in manufacturing. This would be in the late 1800s. We can, however, look at the records of the United States Patent Office. The first purpose for making a duck out of rubber that I could find was not for a toy but for a decoy. It is however the first reference to a "rubber duck." The application was filed Febuary 2, 1886 and aproved on October 26, 1886. It was issued patent # 351,709 to George H. Nye. 1886 Patent The next patent was not for a duck but for a rubber toy with a squeaker. The application was filled January 13, 1903 and aproved March 8, 1904. It was issued patent # 754,148 to Friedrich Kuhlemann of Budapest, Austria-Hungary 1904 Patent A similar patent was issued for another toy in 1927. The application was filled September 26, 1924 and approved on Febuary 28, 1927. It was issued Patent # 1,616,664 to Frederick J. Maywald of Rutherford, NJ. 1927 Patent This next Patent was for a rubber toy also but unlike the last 2 this one showed a duck in the drawing. All though this toy was not made as a bath toy it was made more in the idea of a "Weeble" that could be pushed over and return back up right The application was filled April 18, 1925 and approved on May 8, 1928 it was issued Patent # 1,668,785 to Lawrence Landon Smart of Yonkers NY 1928 Patent After all this time we finaly get a rubber duck designed as a toy made for the bath tub. Though we finaly combine the Duck, Rubber, Toy and Bath concept together this is still not what we would call a rubber duck today. This idea was more like a sprinkler for the tub. The application was filled November 28, 1936 and approved on December 7, 1937 it was issued Patent # 2,101,646 to Burgess L. Gordon Jr. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1933 Patent The next evolution we final get to a rubber bath toy much closser to what we concider a rubber duck today. But instead of a squeaker or weighted floater we know today this one was made to be squeased and propel the duck. The application was filled March 4, 1931 and approved on July 18, 1933 it was issued Patent # 1,918,874 to Eleanor Shannahan of Easton, Maryland 1937 Patent Finaly right after world war 2 we get the patents that are what we would call classic rubber ducks. The design is nice and both would make nice molds even over 50 years latter. It is also known from both of these patents that there were rubber ducks on the market before these patants since both refrance a 1945 Sears Catalog       The first application was filled December 29, 1947 and approved on April 26, 1949 it was issued Design Patent # Des. 153,514 to Peter Ganine of Los Angeles, California The Patent was good for 14 years 1949 Patent The second application was filled March 26, 1948 and approved on June 26, 1950 it was issued Design Patent # Des. 159,127 to Robert Y. Allen and FMelvin Shaw of Beverly Hills, California The Patent was good for 7 years 1950 Patent One of the Sears catalogs from the 1947 Patent Sears 1945 Catalog Early Rubber Duck Samples In the early 1930s Tom Casey, Vice-President of Seiberling Latex Company got licence to produce some of the Walt Disney products in rubber The first products were the 3 little pigs and they sold so well they then produced Mickey Mouse, the Big Bad Wolf and Donald Duck. It is that Donald Duck that many concider the first rubber duck. The Seiberling brothers founded the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, named in honor of Charles Goodyear. Seiberling Donald Duck Time magazine, December 27, 1937 Walt Disney with Seiberling 7 Dwarfs Research Article Kindly Supplied By;-   www.rubberduckpond.com Home Info links ©2008,2011,2012 John Truempy SMART BATHROOM ART       www.rubberduckie.net.au     YOU'LL NEVER BE ALONE WITH RUBBER DUCKIE

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