Thursday, December 5, 2013

A Few More WWII Ornaments

I think I may have come across two more WWII era ornaments and I'm always excited to find them. I find that era fascinating in so many ways. I got these two red ornaments in a bag at Goodwill I can tell the toppers were replaced as the size isn't quite right for the stem of the bulb. The ornaments are unsilvered and have the pastel tone stripes that a lot of the WWII ornaments had. They are too cute!




So I think they are WWII, they certainly appear to be right in style and I've seen identical ones online said to be WWII. In the same bag I found some other interesting ornaments. Unfortunately, they are kind of...."well loved". I'd prefer that they were in better condition, but I bought the bag mainly for the two striped ones anyway. I found what seems to be a very old ornament. It had no topper or hanger so I added one, and the coloring is flaking off. I just really love the bumpy shape. I found similar ones from the 1920's and 1930's, so that is my guess on the era. I also found (in the same bag) an unsilvered pink ornament with a sprig of tinsel inside.


Unfortunately the tinsel one is really flaky, but I'll hang in on the tree anyway. I might come across some in better shape someday. Some people say that the tinsel bulbs are WWII, but others are skeptical, reasoning that it would't make sense to add an aluminum sprig to an ornament when you were trying to save all metals for the war effort. I think they are just kind of unique and interesting.

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