Vintage Star Brand 7 ft Aluminum Silver Christmas Tree 157 Branches Pom Poms OB | eBay
Over $400 for this!!!
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Vintage Star Brand 7 ft Aluminum Silver Christmas Tree 157 Branches Pom Poms OB | eBay
Over $400 for this!!!
Bid is $450 now. Some people just have too much money.
[As they say, a fool and his money are soon parted.]
thats a fair price for what it is,a new 7ft made in china tree is $200, atleast the vintage one goes up in value
Sold for $584.08!!!
I think this supports the theory of the correlation between money and brains.
Holy CRAP! That is one Fugly waste of $584.08!
Tell us how you really feel on it Sledge!
;)
Sirscrapalot - Sledge is missing his filter if anyone finds it. :)
Oh today is just the day.. scoot on over with a fresh cold one to my Vehicle Rant thread I just got done crafting.
Add to that I have two children that after 2 and 3 times out respectively, neither can't get beyond themselves to find their loving mother a Christmas present.. I'm about ready to start drinking... HARD!
To each his own I guess. Andy Warhol painted a picture of a campbells soup can and it was called art, I think the tree looks nicer.
Mid Century Modern is hot right now, Aluminum at the time these trees came on the market (1950's) was just becoming affordable, in the 20's aluminum was as rare as gold.
Any time you come across old funky/futuristic looking furniture, check to see if its worth more than scrap.
Indeed.. and a good rule of thumb.. if you ever find the ugliest painting you have ever seen in your life- it will be worth GOLD.. My wife and I watch antiques roadshow quite a bit.. we yell out prices on stuff- we have found everything from pottery to oil paintings- if it be U-UUGLY.. It be worth your child's college education tuition! The uglier the better!Quote:
Originally Posted by brandon
Those trees came out in 1959. I remember we had one when I was a kid. You couldn't put lights on it do to getting shocked. We had a light that had a wheel with four different colors and as the wheel turned the tree would change colors. Those trees are very collectable and hard to find.
My aunt had a light wheel like that too. Those are probably worth money as well.
Before I knew any better, I passed up the color wheel at a yard sale for $1, then a few weeks later I bought a 3ft ali tree at an auction for $2-$3 and gave it to a friend who had been looking for one. Wish I would have bought the color wheel and kept the tree.
Gee, I made one of those from a recycled tinsel condensor from a old air conditioning unit..... (runs for the door before someone can smack me over the head with a NZ$700 50 yr old Ali Xmas tree....)
You know where the cooler is Sledge! Feel free to use it.
An what some people consider art...I consider they need their eyes checked. It boggles my mind. The tree while not..awesome to me, is heckuva' lot better then what I see people call art. Might just be me, but flicking paint on a board is something most of us did when we first learned to finger paint..an nobody paid us millions, hundreds of thousands, etc for...lol.
Sirscrapalot - Must not have an eye for art.
From Wikipedia:
Prior to commercial electrical generation in the early 1880s, and the Hall-Héroult process in the mid 1880s, aluminium was exceedingly difficult to extract from its various ores. This made pure aluminium more valuable than gold.[50] Bars of aluminium were exhibited at the Exposition Universelle of 1855.[51] Napoleon III of France is reputed to have given a banquet where the most honoured guests were given aluminium utensils, while the others made do with gold.[52][53]
The lowly peasants were relegated to using gold utensils! That tree would have sold for about $10,000 in 1880's.
I actually have one of those paid good $$ it too, wish it was bigger though. Haven't set it up the last couple of years due to the cats. I think they think it's a big ball of foil, won't leave it alone.
Loved them since I was a kid. All spazzes like shiny stuff...and choc cake.:cool:
looks like charlie browns christmas tree lol