European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Not so costly Christmas ornaments and food. Popular Hummel works ranged from a $12 figurine to collectors plates locked behind Glass and with Price tags Topping $3,000. Fortnum and Mason was among the new vendors at the Bazaar which has been held for 27 years said Alena Brandenburg chairwoman of the Bazaar. In All the Bazaar featured More than 20 new vendors each bumping a Vendor from the previous year. The Bazaar committee looks a definitely for Quality new ideas and variety a Brandenburg said. A Ramstein spokeswoman said the 1991 Bazaar raised almost $250,000 for Charity including $40,000 for scholarships to local High school graduates. Schools in the Kaiserslautern military Community received from $5 to $7 per child. Money also went to the boy scouts and girl scouts. Shoppers who missed Ramstein a Bazaar or found popular items sold out can find much of the same merchandise at Heidelberg or the nov. 1-3 Bazaar at Span Dahlem a Brandenburg said. The various vendors expressed some Surprise that military customers follow the Bazaar circuit travelling from one event to the next. A i done to know Why they do it. The prices Are always the same a said Ursel Konig who sold Ceramic serving dishes at the Stuttgart Sale. Ursula Jager said some customers follow her because they want to get More pots and pans that match the cookware they previously bought from her. Barbara Price of Aschaffenbur Germany is one of the folks who tries to attend several of the larger pre Holiday bazaars. She has found an artist whose Watercolours she particularly likes and continues to buy his work. A a it a neat to buy directly from him a she said. Tech. Sgt. Pat judge a medical technician at Ramstein a health clinic was one of the thousands of people who used that bases Bazaar to Stock Santa a sack. A for the last three years we be bought Christmas presents there a said judge who shopped with his wife Jean and their two children. Their list of purchases included chess pieces some wine a Pewter plate and Cross and some Wood Wall carvings he said. A i also bought a cuckoo clock in be been promising Jean a  outside the hangars units from the Kaiserslautern military Community set up an american version of a German fest with food and beverage Booths in abundance. Youngsters posed for photos in cutout figures of teenage mutant ninja turtles and Bart Simpson. Just another clip from the world of the Bazaar. Contributing to this report staff writers Peggy Davidson Mary Neth and Joseph Owen. Sis. Lynda Davidson Beverly no Vars paints Hunting scenes at  vendors together with eager customer by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Only a few dozen vendors participated in last months Bazaar at the Patch Barracks officers club but the wares covered the spectrum from class to Kitsch from the unobtrusive to the ostentatious. At least nine tenths of the items on Sale could be classified As luxury items without which most people still could manage to muddle through life comfortably. Carved chess sets decorative russian boxes handmade polish dolls miniature Ceramic theatrical masks jewelry and Copper etchings lined the tables and Walls. One stand featured a variety of new testament scenes such As the last supper bearing the Label a Olive Wood a hand carved in  another Vendor was hawking paintings of handsome a scarred clean shaven . Civil War officers Union or Confederate take your pick with blow dried Yuppie haircuts clutching swooning women who presumably were greeting their warriors after a Long separation. One Man sold a Novelty item that looked like a Bamboo Bazooka. When you place your hand gently Over the top end it makes a noise that sounds like shards of broken Glass being sucked through a ventilation Shaft. When you take your hand away the noise ceases and you a almost be willing to pay for that too. Souvenirs of Germany also were plentiful. They included cuckoo clocks nutcrackers Hummel figurines and other fragile items that need to be displayed on a shelf your toddler can to reach. Several Racks of traditional German clothing were for Sale. Most of the few practical items had something to do with food a either preparing serving or eating it. Pots and pans serving dishes cutlery and silverware were the main offerings. Ursula Jager a Vendor from Marbach a Stuttgart suburb has been Selling cookware on the Bazaar circuit for about five years. A i think the goods at the bazaars Are designed especially for the americans a she said adding that germans usually Arentt interested in clocks or nutcrackers. That holds True even for her cookware she said because the pots and pans feature Bright Flower designs that Many germans consider too flashy. As a result they Are unavailable in German stores. Ursel Konig said the same is True of the Ceramic serving dishes she Sells. Americans like them but germans done to buy them because they fit Well with a rustic Kitchen decor that went out of fashion in Germany about five years ago. Germans still buy wooden baking forms like those she Sells but Only during the Christmas season. Hans Porebny a full time Watercolour artist from Horb am Neckar has been Selling his paintings at . And Canadian military bazaars for 25 years. He said he too finds it easier to sell to americans than to germans. German customers Are too Picky he said they fuss about details like whether a paintings Frame will match their wallpaper. His customers Are almost exclusively officers and non commissioned officers. Lower ranking enlisted troops done to have the Money to buy paintings and even if they did they usually consider Watercolours inferior to Oil paintings he said. Two couples who visited the Patch Bazaar had mixed reactions but agreed that it was missing one key ingredient a food. Army sgt. Steven f. Conniff and his wife Ruth spent a half hour roaming the stalls. Ruth Coniff said the Bazaar she had attended in Heidelberg was better because it offered food and More variety of goods. A they done to have As much As they used to a she said of the Patch Barracks event. A they done to have a Good selection of things. They need More  Kerry Hansen said she found some prices reasonable and some too High. She said she had found some items such As Pewter and Crystal in German stores As Well. The vendors said some military customers follow the Bazaar circuit travelling from one event to the next. A i done to know Why they do it. The prices arc always the same a Konig said although she added the vendors Arentt the same everywhere. Jager said some of her customers follow her because they want to get More pots and pans from her that match the ones they already bought. The vendors agreed that business has declined Over the past several years partly because of a Dollar Exchange rate that is much less favourable for americans than it was in the mid-1980s, and partly because of troop withdrawals. Konig said sales Are lagging compared to when she started Selling in 1985, when a they rushed to buy something even though they did no to need  Konig attends 20 to 25 bazaars a year. When that business drops off she will concentrate More on her separate sales business with germans she said. Potre by said he decided to get out of the Bazaar business recently. The Canadian forces announcement a few weeks ago that its two bases in Germany would close convinced him he had made the right decision. A we also anticipate that there will be less americans Here and that the bazaars will not be As profitable As they have been so far a he said adding wistfully a it was a wonderful source of  october 6, 1991 sunday a it Page 5