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ca 1949: Royal Electric offered many popular lighted novelty figures, among them this Santa. As can be seen in the pictures which follow, Royal wisely offered many variations of these figures with simple changes in the base of candle arrangement.  
ca 1949: This Royal offering uses the same base that the Santa pictured above stands on, but this time a single candle is used along with two of the popular Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer figures.
ca 1949: This time, Royal has paired Santa with the same tree that was used with Rudolph in the picture above. This figure was also available holding a simple Merry Christmas sign in place of the tree.
ca 1949: Still another variation of the Royal Santa. In this unit, Santa hold a bubble light.
ca 1949: Royal also sold a simple plain lighted Santa, inexpensively made by re-tooling the mold from the figure pictured directly above.
ca 1949: Also from Royal, this snowman was available in all of the same variations as the company's Santa figures. The snowman is a bit harder to find. The molds for these figures were later sold to NOMA and Miller when the Royal Christmas factory burned in 1955. As a result, you can find boxed examples of these figures with all three names on them, which can be a bit confusing. Many of them were offered for sale through the 1970s.
ca 1949: Miller plastics was another company that sold a wide variety of lighted plastic figures for Christmas. This is their popular Hi Ho Santa figure.
ca 1949: Another variation of the Miller Hi Ho Santa, this time with a white reindeer instead of the tan figure pictured above. The unit was also sold with a dark brown reindeer.
ca 1949: Called "King Santa" by its manufacturer, Miller Electric, this lighted figure also doubled as a coin bank. The interior light was mounted above the coin slot, so that falling change would not strike the bulb and break it. Miller offered a full line of King Santa figures through the 1960s.
 
ca 1949: Here is yet another classic example of how manufacturers made different figures from the same mold. With a simple change in the paint scheme, the addition of a small cigar and the substitution of a top hat for Santa's crown, King Santa has now become a "lighted Snowman". This Miller figure originally held a yellow plastic broom in the hole in his left hand. These figures can also be found holding a plastic shovel. The figure was modified yet again for year-round use and was offered as a pirate, painted in green and red.

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