"Propp Xmas Tree Lighting Outfit with Mazda Lamps" Packaging, 1927

Artifact

Packaging

Date Made

1927

Creators

Propp 

Place of Creation

United States 

Keywords

Packaging 

Christmas lights 

Christmas decorations 

Christmas 

Holidays 

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

2022.76.1

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Jim Johnson.

Material

Cardboard

Color

Multicolored

Dimensions

Height: 1.625 in

Width: 11.125 in

Length: 6 in

Inscriptions

on top of lid: PROPP / XMAS TREE LIGHTING / OUTFIT / with MAZDA LAMPS / ONE 4 ALL / PROPP / ONE 4 ALL / DECORATIVE / ELECTRICAL SET / ONE 4 ALL / For Safety Sake / Demand PROPP ELECTRICAL / DECORATIVE SETS / (C) 1927 - MADE IN U.S.A. on front and back of lid: BUILD THEM AS YOU LIKE / ONE 4 ALL / PROPP / ONE 4 ALL / DECORATIVE / ELECTRICAL SET / ONE 4 ALL on left side of lid: 8 - LIGHT / DECORATIVE / OUTFIT / PROPP / WITH / MAZDA / LAMPS on right side of lid: BUILD THEM AS YOU LIKE / NO. 842 / 8 - LIGHT / OUTFIT / ONE 4 ALL / DECORATIVE / ELECTRICAL SET / ONE 4 ALL / WITH / MAZDA / LAMPS on inside, top of flap: PROPP XMAS TREE LIGHTING OUTFITS / WITH MAZDA LAMPS / INCLUDED IN UNDERWRITERS LABORATORIES LIST OF INSPECTED ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES / GUARANTEE------Our distributors are authorized to make replacement of any unsatisfactory parts. / No. 842 No. 842 / DIRECTIONS / This set is made for use on any kind of Electtic Current of 110 to 125 volts. / The lamps used in this set are 15 volts each burning 8 or 9 to the series to make up the required voltage of 110 to 125. / This set was tested and should it not light, it is poosible a lamp has become loosened or broken. / A loose or broken lamp prevents others from lighting. / Therefore to find out and remedy, ssee that all lamps are screwed firmly into thse sockets then switch on the current. / If then the set does not light, remove one lamp and put a new one in its place repeating this operation by interchanging / the good lamp from socket to socket until the defective one is replaced which will be indicated, by all of the lamps / lighting up. / It is well to keep on hand in reserve a few extra Mazda 15 volt lamps. / To get the best results, use only Mazda lamps. / Carbon lamps should not be used in this outfit. on inside, bottom of flap: PROPP / XMAS TREE LIGHTING / OUTFIT / with MAZDA LAMPS / ONE 4 ALL / PROPP / ONE 4 ALL / DECORATIVE / ELECTRICAL SET / ONE 4 ALL / For Safety Sake / Demand PROPP ELECTRICAL / DECORATIVE SETS on inside, back: (C) 1927, MADE IN U.S.A. / You can tell a Propp Outfit by the Red Polka Dots in the green wire DESIGN REG. U. S. Pat. Off. No, 205,117 / PROPP ELECTRIC XMAS TREE LIGHTING UNITS / INCLUDED IN UNDERWRITERS LABORATORIES LIST OF INSPECTED / ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES