"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
...
> On 7/19/2017 1:12 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 12:46:15 PM UTC-4, Jill McQuown wrote:
>>
>>> I have a 16 inch foot tall white glazed ceramic tree my oldest brother
>>> made for our mother when he was 12. It's lit from within by a 40 watt
>>> light bulb. I offered it to my brother after she died and he said no,
>>> you keep it. I set it on a table in the entryway. That's my
>>> "Christmas" tree.
>>
>> Does it have the little colored transparent plastic pegs that
>> go in holes in the ceramic? My mother went through a ceramics
>> phase in the late 1960s or early 1970s and she glazed one of
>> those (green, in her case).
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>>
>
> My wife had a part time ceramics business in the 70's. I used to make the
> trees and she sold them. I made one a day in the mold from October to
> December. I fired one a day in the kiln too. Profitable too.

Those were quite popular. I had a green one. You can still get them at the
Vermont Country Store.