When Did Artificial Christmas Trees First Come Up for Sale?

 

#149  December 20:   When would you think artificial Christmas trees were introduced?  I would have said the ‘50s with the Art Deco, campy aluminum ones.  They are the first ones I remember. Not according to NPR this morning. Here is the very short story.  WOW, can you believe she kept it all those years!!:

In 1920, Dorothy Grant was 8 when her family bought one of the first mass-produced artificial Christmas trees. She lived to 101, and her 2.5-foot tree just sold at auction for $4,000. 

A little more research revealed a picture and the fact that Dorothy lived in England.  Similar ones were sold at Woolworths but had a different base and hers may have been part of a department store decoration.