Vintage Bubble Lights Bubble-Lites
Nine working electric bubble lights made with a 2 coloured plastic base fitted with a bulb that lights the base up, a clear glass vile sits in the base, when the base bulb gets warm it heats the coloured liquid in the clear glass vile in the shape of a candle with a glass slug insert causing it to bubble up and down, mesmerising the onlookers. The bulbs have been fitted in a poorly homemade plastic base. There is another three bulbs that do not work and one glass vile with the tip broken so there is no liquid in it.
Period
Early 1900’s.
Origin
No makers mark’s
Bubble lights for Christmas decoration were first patented in the United States by Carl W. Otis in 1944 and introduced there in 1946 by NOMA, one of the largest American manufacturers of Christmas lights. While NOMA was the largest company to make these lights, other manufacturers included Raylite (Paramount/Sterling), Royal Electric Company, and Good Lite/Peerless. Bubble lights were very popular as Christmas lights from the 1940s through the 1970s, before miniature “fairy” lights became popular.
Condition
Plastic bases a bit grubby and one is miss shaped from heat, the made up base takes 10 lights but have only 9 working so to make it light up put another type of bulb in as if one goes out all goes out.
Size Bubble base and glass vile.
145mm
40mm
Glass vile slight different sizes
Largest
145mm
40mm
Weight Together with base
g (Not including packing)
