| Nearly identical to its American
counterpart, this set from NOMA was sold in Canada later than it was in
the United States. Circa 1950, the outfit includes the then new General
Electric G-14 lamps. From the collection of and photographed by Fred
Fox. |
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| Circa 1965, this set of "fancy"
lamps has a Canadian made lighting string with red plastic Berry Beads,
and features hand painted milk glass figural lamps imported from Japan.
The set is a NOMA offering. |
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| As the times changed, so did NOMA of
Canada. This set uses imported lamps in a set with the NOMA name on it,
an unusual practice for NOMA in the early days of the company's
existence. More commonly, NOMA would use imported lamps in a "generic"
or non-branded outfit. From the collection of and photographed by Fred
Fox. |
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| Here is an interesting variation on the
NOMA Kristal lights. This set employs different colors than does the
American version of the box, and, quite interestingly, mentions that
these lights are for outdoor use.
To my knowledge, no American sets of this type were ever advertised for
this purpose. Circa 1965. From the collection of and photographed by
Fred Fox. |
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| From the very late 1960s, this NOMA outfit
includes imported acorn shaped C-9 lamps, which were made in Japan for
just a few years. This outfit shows all of the known colors of the
acorn lamps: red, blue, green, yellow and white, except for the hard to
find canary yellow, which is lighter and brighter in color than the
yellow included in this outfit. From the collection of and photographed
by Fred Fox. The canary yellow lamp is shown in the grouping below.
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