Lobster Ornament

The Lobster ornament ranks among the more unique lobster gifts for the holidays, in hand-blown glass finished in deep cooked-shell red. My uncle Frank orders lobster at every restaurant he visits, regardless of what that particular restaurant actually specializes in, which has produced some genuinely strange dinners over the years. He has never once regretted it.

It works well as a stocking stuffer, small enough to fit near the top without crowding the socks and candy underneath. Frank once got a kitchen to produce lobster at a steakhouse that does not serve lobster, purely through sheer persistence, and nobody in the family has stopped mentioning it since that dinner. Persistence apparently works.

Buy it for whoever orders the lobster every single time, regardless of the restaurant's actual specialty on the menu. Frank checks the bib situation immediately and has never once checked the price himself, calling that a kind of surrender he simply isn't prepared to make. Most families have exactly one Frank in them.

The body and claws are worked separately at the torch and joined while the glass still gives under heat. Frank cracks a real shell like he's opening the mail, no hesitation, no ceremony involved at all. The ridged texture here goes on entirely by hand once everything has cooled. Every claw ends up slightly different, much like Frank's actual order.

The Lobster ornament measures about 5.1 inches long, with claws that extend outward enough to read clearly from across the room. Frank's actual dinner plate rarely looks that composed by the time he's finished with it, honestly. This version, thankfully, stays intact regardless of how enthusiastically it gets admired at the table.

Dust it gently with a soft, dry cloth rather than anything damp at all. Frank has never once cleaned up after a lobster dinner without declaring it entirely worth the mess, every single time, at every single restaurant he visits. This ornament asks for considerably less commitment than that particular family tradition.

The White Owl ornament pairs naturally alongside it, a much quieter presence from the same collection entirely. Frank would probably not notice the owl at all, mid-lobster, mid-story, mid pretty much everything else happening at that whole table. Browse the Animal ornament collection for the rest of that quieter company nearby.

It ships in genuinely protective packaging rather than a presentation gift box, built specifically to keep the claws intact. Frank has never once packed a leftover lobster claw properly, resulting in at least one genuinely memorable freezer incident just last year. This ships considerably better than that ever actually did.