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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

'Humblest Christmas tree in the world' sells for $4,000 at auction

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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0:00.0

So we talked earlier about that dress that was worn by Princess Diana in 1985 which sold for 1.1 million dollars in auction.

0:08.0

There's something else that sold for a lot of money at auction and this one is even more puzzling to me. It's one of the

0:15.4

earliest mass-produced artificial Christmas trees. It was purchased for pennies in

0:21.2

1920. It sold for 4200 purchased for $4,200 in

0:25.0

$4,300, almost $4,300 on auction at Friday.

0:29.5

This is according to Hansen's auctioneers.

0:32.2

Now you are a collector of antiquities and

0:35.9

and historical things. Do you find any history in a

0:40.8

one hundred twenty three year old tree fake Christmas tree?

0:45.0

Yeah, yeah no I can see for the right collector that would be a worthwhile acquisition

0:48.9

and it's far more affordable than the princess Dydress.

0:51.6

What that sell for 1.1 million this sold for like 4,000

0:54.8

yeah 4,300 so at least this is attainable now I wouldn't spend 4,000 dollars on

0:59.7

this just to describe it to the listeners it almost looks like the Charlie Brown Christmas tree.

1:04.4

This thing is sad. Sickly, thin, almost bending over with a teeny tiny one little ornament,

1:10.3

you know, hanging on it. So, you know, it's not what I would call attractive but in the history of I

1:15.2

don't know Christmas ornamentation those are very collectible I mean there are often

1:19.6

Christmas sections in parts of antique stores.

1:22.8

Oh sure and you know just like Coca Cola collectors.

1:25.6

You see a lot of the silver aluminum trees from the you know the 50s.

1:30.4

Yeah, but this one from 1920, okay, they're saying it's the humblest Christmas tree in the world and it is very humble looking, but what do you do with something like this? if you're the buyer of an old Christmas tree

1:45.6

what do you do you do you set this out year round yes theoretically I would

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