Oh I remember those growing up!!!! Nan had all of those on the tree, as well as long pointy ones in both blue and green.

Oh, yes, those are all so familiar. I didn't put up a tree last year, as we were doing the celebration at a hotel. I did have a little fiber optic, which was fine, but I'm getting the urge to put up the tree again.

Fond memories. I could add tea pots and snowmen and santa's.... and my most prized string of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer lights. (circa1964-5). As always, thanks for the memories...I doubt I'll be getting the oldies out.

Nanny

I love old ornaments. Sometimes you still see them at yard or estate sales. Inexpensive too!

Yes, the Shiny Brites. The older ones, like yours have the metal cap and loop. During the early war years, the metal cap was replaced by a cardboard cap.

I'm downsizing my decorating seriously and gave 8 boxes of Shiny Brites - all in the original sectioned boxes - to my brother. These came from our maternal grandparents... according to the original price pasters, 89 cents and/or less a dozen from Woolworth's.

I have hundreds and hundreds of ornaments collected over the years in my travels, and though I'm not in the market for more, I always look. Haven't seen much of anything inspiring.

My first Christmas away from home, my brother found out I wasn't going to have a tree. He went to the woods and dug up a pine between 12 and 18 inches tall, put it in a 3 lb coffee can, and got ornaments from Mom.... and they look identical to what you show. I've given away all my decorating stuff, but kept those.

Shirley

What a lovely thing for your dear brother to do.

Not my photo, but I have some of these angels that belonged to my Grandmother.

We have two boxes of Shiny Brites that MIL gave to us last year. I found another single Shiny Brite at a yard sale; the guy gave it to me for free!

An odd shepherd that is older, but similar to MIL's 1952 Nativity set.

This piece was made in Germany.

Oldfixer, you have one of my very favorite that came from my DH's grandparents' tree in Bloomington, Illinois. It is the little red and silver lantern in the bottom box. I also have a large, really thick glass ornament in metallic green that is so heavy that we have to hang it close to the trunk or on a bottom branch.

Oh I love these old ornies!
Shirley, what a sweet sweet brother you have! :)

Caroline, I think my dh's grandmother had that same set! I always thought it looked like Elvis dressing up as a sheppard. LOL

Love seeing everyone's "stuff". I especially love glass ornaments!

Juellie, I love glass ornaments too!

All of the ornaments and figures are very interesting. I enjoyed seeing and reading what you all wrote about them. I don't remember ever seeing my grandmother having a tree, and I don't remember anything special about my parent's ornaments. I do enjoy reading about others' traditions.

Your grandmother didn't have a tree?? That is unimaginable! My grandma decked out her house, as I do for my grandkids. I want them to be in awe....and they usually are! It's not over the top but nothing in my house is untouchable...well, maybe my glass ornament tree, but there are 3 others to pick from. ;)

Those are the ornaments my parents had...fond memories. Now I'm inspired to find some!

This wind up Angel sits in the China Cabinet.

Does anyone remember the lights that had liquid inside?
seems like the liquid was tinted, or maybe the color of the light made it look tinted, & it bubbled.

"Bubble Lights". There's a retro version out now just about every place you can buy Christmas lights - the glass is tinted. Come to think of it, the glass was tinted in the vintage ones too.

Vintage bubble owners take a look and jump in ............. I say the glass was clear and the liquid was colored.

Old Fixer, I have the same decorations in both your pictures. Here are some of my pictures, some of the mantle decorations are older than I am, but I have added over the years to it. haha nothing is to scale but we love it.

Here is a link that might be useful: Christmas Mantle plus tree

Cherry .... good show, that's a lot of stuff!
AND, above question answered, she has a photo of a Bubbler. Clear glass, colored liquid.

I have some of those shown in the photos as well as the box they came in. None of my siblings wanted the ornaments, so I took them. The boxes have the names of the stores, like Woolworths, and others on them.

My niece got the old (and I do mean old) strings of lights mom had on the tree with the shiny aluminum cups that shaded the bulbs.

Agreeing with OldFixer-
The glass was clear and the liquid was tinted.
Bubble Lights were my favorite.

I love old glass ornaments!!! My parents gave me a big box of their old ornaments, so we have one of the pink ones in common, OF. Some of my favorites are in this pic. lol!

My husband had an assortment of antique ornaments. We stored all our ornaments in the basement and one year the city had a huge flood and we ended up with over 4 feet of water in our basement, destroying all the ornaments.

I do see now though, ornaments makers are bringing back the "old look" to ornaments again. I love them!

Thank you for this thread. I recently donated my Country Living magazine Christmas editions, but I miss the articles on antique and vintage ornaments. Everyone's ornaments are beautiful--just looking at them brings back memories. I love the old ornaments, so this year I put up a small tree with only glass bead garland and figurals. We'll still have the traditional, kid-friendly tree downstairs.

The trees are showing off some pretty oldies.
FLASH: spotted some original Bubblers today, set of 12, $36.00. (Clear glass, colored liquid).