Why Do People Love Snow Globes
Wondering where snow globes originated?
Erwin Perzy III knows a thing or two about making it snow - it's the family business. The 57-year-old Austrian is the grandson of the man widely acknowledged as the inventor of the snow globe. His grandfather, the first Erwin Perzy, came up with the idea by accident in 1900.
Mass production started in Vienna in 1905, and 108 years later, the company - Original Vienna Snow Globes - is still going strong.
Mr Perzy III has been in charge since the early 1980s and the company, despite having only 30 employees, 15 of which work from home, produces about 200,000 snow globes a year.
Unlike cheaper rivals from the Far East, the company's snow globes are handpainted and manually assembled, and the actual globe is still made of glass rather than plastic.
Despite the company's small size, and relative obscurity among those not knowledgeable about snow globes, it continues to have some illustrious customers.
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