Old Fashioned Nomma Bubble Christmas Lights
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December of 1946 was an exciting time for the Christmas lighting industry and for the consumer with the introduction of the new and innovative Christmas Bubble Light. Developed by Carl Otis who worked as an auditor for Montgomery Ward was inspired by the existing Glo-Lite candle and the existing Bubbler Juke Box, see pictures.
The kickoff NOMA biscuits were sold in 1946 in a 9 light ready complete with a 9 socket directly line cord gear up with alligator socket clips to attach to a tree branch. The box was a book blazon box with a flip up top on the front end with a bubble light on the superlative and the NOMA Daughter on the inside. This was a quality Christmas tree set and many are still existing today. Come across pictures.
In 1948 NOMA changed the manner of their plastic base and we call these lamps NOMA flats, These were short lived due to the estrus of the lamp being too intense for the minor plastic base resulting in melting and warping. A specific box design was printed for these NOMA flats but was discontinued. These were only bachelor until 1949 when NOMA inverse back to the biscuit style, eliminated the book style box and used a lid type box with the NOMA girl printed on the cover. Run into pictures.
By 1948, other companies wanted in on the bubble light market without incurring copy right infringement. Raylite Electric of NY developed their own style of lamp called animated Kristal Snow using oil in the fluid tube which resulted in a deadening moving action similar to the bubbles of champagne bottle. They fabricated an intricate and beautiful Deco manner plastic base of operations including a 'saucer' and used a longer glass tube. See pictures.
Not to be left out, Royal Electric of Pawtuckett, RI developed their ain fashion of bubble lamp calling it the Sparkling Chimera Lamp. Their tubes were filled withmethylene chloride chloride producing fast bubbles and the plastic base was similar to the NOMA beige but with a concave summit. The bases were either a solid color or a 2 color with the top and lesser existence a dissimilar color. Encounter pictures.
NOMA, Raylite and Royal were the largest and most notable producers of bubble lights and their were other smaller companies who tried their product design in this lucrative bubble lite marketplace. One such company was United States Electrical better known as USAlite who developed a very pretty lamp base with a geometric pattern on the top plastic. Unfortunately, the plastic was thin and the base would cook and be misshapen. Encounter picture.
Longtime Glow fellow member Gene Teslovic provided this introduction to the primeval and most popular bubble lights and in hereafter articles (on this site in the Blog section) he will cover additional companies who produced bubble lights through the early 1950'south.
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