Vintage Christmas Tree Stands

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In the 18th and 19th centuries, Christmas trees became a part of the Christmas tradition, spreading throughout Europe before becoming popular in the United States. By the 1870s, middle-class Victorians started to feel like their ornately...
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, Christmas trees became a part of the Christmas tradition, spreading throughout Europe before becoming popular in the United States. By the 1870s, middle-class Victorians started to feel like their ornately decorated fir trees deserved more than a couple of boards hammered to the bottom and covered with a festive tree skirt. To capitalize on this new market, iron foundries began to cast elaborate, elegant tree stands. In 1876, Hermann Albrecht of Philadelphia was awarded patents for the first two manufacturer tree stands. A tube large enough to hold a tree trunk would be supported by three or more legs, and the tree would be screwed into place. The leg patterns were similar to those used for cast-iron benches or stove feet. Some of the most collectible tree stands today are figural iron stands from 1900 cast into the shapes of Santa, reindeer, or other Christmas characters. In the 1919, metal Christmas tree stands, which were similar to tin lithographed toys, took on a cone-shape and were decorated with images of Santa and the like. These had an opening where one could water their Christmas tree to keep it fresh and weigh it down. Some 1920s-era cone tree stands included electric lights or a mechanism that continuously turned the tree. Electric Christmas light company NOMA began offering Christmas tree stands around 1926. When aluminum trees were introduced in the 1960s, the stands were also made of light metal and sometimes revolved to complement the color wheel placed on the floor to bathe the tree in light of different colors.

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