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GloLite Lighted Tabletop Tree
- Year
- c. 1936–1950 Community consensus
- Manufacturer
- Glo-Lite (later NOMA) Community consensus
About this item
Small tabletop tree lit by one bulb in the base, with light carried out to colored rods at the branch tips (glass rods before about 1940, plastic after). The design came from John Frei's light-transmitting rod patents, and NOMA later bought the Glo Lite company.
Details
- Holiday
- Christmas
- Archive type
- Decoration
- Brand
- GloLite
- Dimensions
- about 10 in. and up
- Materials
- Visca or cellophane foliage, glass or plastic light rods, single bulb
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Community Identified
- Old Christmas Tree Lights: Electric Christmas Lights 1946-1950, page 2 Collector Reference Supports: In 1946 NOMA first mass-marketed Bubble Lites in the book-type box; box contents show 9 lights, cord and clips; glass slugs in early tubes, dropped after 1949; purple fluid sold only first three years Reference only: cited, never auto-verified. View source
- Old Christmas Tree Lights: Lighted Tabletop Trees Collector Reference Supports: 1948 NOMA catalog bubble light trees with 9 saucer-style bubbling lights, series wired, 18 inch high, Visca foliage Reference only: cited, never auto-verified. View source