• Fairbanks, Alaska Holiday Ornament — An Arch Woven From a Hundred Racks — 3-inch faceted crystal glass ornament in white gift box
  • Fairbanks, Alaska Holiday Ornament — An Arch Woven From a Hundred Racks — 3-inch faceted crystal glass ornament in gold gift box
  • Fairbanks, Alaska Holiday Ornament — An Arch Woven From a Hundred Racks — front view: the Fairbanks antler arch rendered as a dense woven mass of moose and caribou antlers forming a walk-through arch, each rack individually drawn in pale bone tones
  • Fairbanks, Alaska Holiday Ornament — An Arch Woven From a Hundred Racks — crystal ornament hanging by red ribbon, faceted beveled edge
  • Fairbanks, Alaska Holiday Ornament — An Arch Woven From a Hundred Racks — angled view of the gem-cut crystal edge catching light
  • Fairbanks, Alaska Holiday Ornament — An Arch Woven From a Hundred Racks — close-up detail of the printed art on crystal glass
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Fairbanks Alaska Holiday Ornament - Antler Arch

Fairbanks Alaska Holiday Ornament - Antler Arch

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Antler Arch. More than a hundred sets of moose and caribou antlers, gathered from across the interior, woven into an arch you can walk under. It looks less built than grown.

Fairbanks sits in the middle of Alaska's interior, closer to the Arctic Circle than to Anchorage, a town that began as a gold-rush trading post on the Chena River in 1901 and stayed because the gold did. The antler arch stands near the riverfront by the visitor center, assembled from racks donated over years - each one shed naturally or salvaged, each one from an animal that lived somewhere in the enormous country that surrounds the town.

It is the most honest civic monument in America. Other cities cast their symbols in bronze; Fairbanks assembled its from what the land actually produces, contributed one rack at a time by people who live there. It says everything about the place without a single word carved into it.

Printed on a three-inch faceted crystal glass round, white-backed so the pale bone tones and the intricate antler weave stay readable against a lit tree. The faceted edge catches light from every angle. Arrives boxed - your choice of white or gold gift box at checkout.

For anyone who has spent a winter in the interior, or who has family who did. Unmistakable, a little wild, and unlike anything else on the tree. Merlin Classics profits support hunger relief.

3-inch (76 mm) round crystal glass ornament · faceted gem-cut edge · white-backed print for crisp contrast · red ribbon hanger · your choice of white or gold gift box, included · free U.S. shipping.

 

More Fairbanks AK Items

Below are excerpts from our Fairbanks history page. The Fairbanks town logo and the full town story are available through the collection link above.

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For a few years Fairbanks was one of the richest gold camps in the North. The easy creek gold gave way to deep, industrial mining — giant gold dredges that chewed through the frozen ground and left long gravel tailings still visible today, with Gold Dredge 8 preserved as a landmark of the era. The boom faded as the best ground was worked out, and the population rose and fell with the price of gold, but mining never entirely left: the Interior is still Alaska's gold country. The dredges that sit quiet in the hills are the town's wooly mammoths — perfectly preserved in the dry, cold air, monuments to the rush that made the place.

Our Fairbanks logo carries the distressed Alaska bear above "Alaska Territory — Est. 1959," the shared retro emblem of our Alaska towns; the bear stands for the wild Interior country the gold-seekers pushed into, and 1959 marks the year Alaska joined the Union as a state. Rendered in worn black-and-white, like a stamp on a miner's crate or an outfitter's sign, it ties Fairbanks to every other Alaska town we make. What makes this one Fairbanks is the story behind the brand — the grounded riverboat, the gold strike, and the city that grew up golden-hearted under the northern lights.

Why People Visit Fairbanks

Visitors come to Fairbanks for the aurora — the city's spot under the auroral oval is hard to beat — and stay for the layered Interior story: gold dredges and frontier cabins, a northern university and big-sky wilderness in every direction. It is the gateway to Denali and the Arctic, with hot springs and ice art for the winter and the Midnight Sun for the summer. Equal parts gold-rush heritage and far-north spectacle, Fairbanks rewards anyone drawn to the heart of Alaska.

Fairbanks Alaska Merlin Classics retro logo — distressed Alaska bear, Alaska Territory Est. 1959

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