Longaberger 2005 Silver Bells Basket, Woven Holiday Sweeps Door Caddy & Gift Pottery Boxed Set

A beautifully festive 3-piece estate lot of officially licensed holiday collectibles produced by Longaberger Baskets of Dresden, Ohio. This comprehensive seasonal ensemble combines an investment-grade 25th-anniversary milestone family basket with a rare wall-hanging door caddy and a matching hand-painted ceramic trinket dish.
Lot Items & Details
2005 Christmas Collection “Silver Bells” Basket: A substantial, low-profile rectangular family market basket woven from warm natural maple hardwoods, accented by a dyed forest green top rim band. Outfitted with dual short, heavy-duty forest green leather side handles with contrasting white saddle-stitching.
Accessories: Includes its custom over-the-rim fabric liner printed in a bold holiday ribbon stripe motif featuring crimson red, hunter green, cream, and metallic gold accents. Complete with a high-clarity form-fitting clear plastic interior protector liner.
Markings: Features a polished silver-tone front nameplate reading “Longaberger® / 2005 Christmas Collection™ Silver Bells™ Basket / Celebrating 25 Years”. Stamped underneath with official company logos, hand-signed, and cross-dated 2005.
Holiday Sweeps Door Caddy Hanging Basket: A unique vertical pocket basket with an angled rim, woven from natural maple splints interlocked with a repeating Christmas grid of dyed burgundy, forest green, and white vertical strips. Outfitted with a long overhead crimson red leather hanging loop handle with contrast saddle stitching for mounting on wall hooks or doorknobs.
Accessories: Includes a form-fitting clear plastic interior protective liner. Retains its original factory pack-in inventory label reading “Holiday Sweeps – GWP, Item Number 11586”.
Markings: Stamped underneath with official logos, hand-signed by the weaver, and explicitly dated 1996 on the wood runner base plate.
Pottery Little Gifts Ceramic Trinket Basket & Lid: A whimsical two-piece glazed ceramic collectible container modeled after a classic woven market basket. The base features relief-molded natural and green splints with a red rim band. The multi-color hand-painted lid features a three-dimensional heap of beautifully wrapped Christmas presents topped with a large flowing red bow handle.
Accessories: Housed inside its original factory-issued corrugated brown kraft storage box carrying the corporate retail product label reading “Longaberger® Pottery / 31655 / Pottery Little Gifts Basket Lid / Made in China”.
Markings: The base underside features a crisp printed logotype marking it as a 2006 series release.
Condition Report
Woodwork & Ceramics: Near-mint, collector-grade condition across all items. Hardwood splints are tight and flexible with no structural splits or loose ends. The ceramic gift box and lid are immaculate, showing a high-gloss glaze free of chips, hairline cracks, surface scratches, or crazing. All leather components are supple with no dry-rotting.
Plastics & Box: Clear liners are perfectly bright, transparent, and warp-free. The original pottery box is clean and sturdy with intact corners and a fully legible label.