TIL the original artificial Christmas trees were made in Germany, out of painted or dyed goose feathers, in response to local deforestation. Neat.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Festive magic fueled by nostalgia has been credited for the “astonishing” sale of a Christmas tree, “bought for pennies” more than a century ago, for £3,411 ($4,328) at auction on Friday.
A global bidding battle meant the final result far exceeded this, according to a press release Friday.
The Christmas tree arrived at the home of Dorothy Grant in Leicestershire in England’s East Midlands in 1920, when she was 8 years old, and she was “wildly excited,” the auction house said in the release.
Dorothy treasured the tree until her passing at the age of 101 in 2014, following which her 84-year-old daughter, Shirley Hall, inherited it.
Hanson suggested in the release that the tree could have been produced for an expensive London department store.
“The seller decided to part with it to honour her mother’s memory and to ensure it survives as a humble reminder of 1920s life - a boom-to-bust decade,” he added.
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