Was allowed to take a few items from the piles of knick-knacks being taken to thrift stores from an elderly neighbor/longtime friend's house, by her relatives (after they'd boxed up and taken all the truly sentimental/important items to them). I chose a few items to keep, spruce up and display, things to remember her by.
One item I found is a string of 1960s or 70s (?) plastic yellow roses/green leaves. Insideeach rose is a socket for one of those sub-miniature screw-base bulbs, the cylindrical point-tip type that predated the modern "plastic wedge base" variety - perhaps they're called "midget" base bulbs? The same sort used in some dollhouse lighting fixtures. I used to have some of the colored bulbs many years ago, but gave them away as I had no fixture for them.
I thought this thing was complete but, no, one of the flowers has one wire disconnected. Another, I have only the rose and the bare wires, the socket is gone. It'd be hard to fix this up, as the sockets don't come out of the yellow plastic husks. I've heard the term "husk lamps", but I'm not sure if that applies. I'd like to find a complete one of these.
If no one here has one, does anyone know what search terms to try, or where to look? This one was also missing the bulbs themselves. I'm sure there are many other strings that use them, but I'm looking for one (or more) of these short little strings made up as plastic flowers/leaves. I have a specific use in mind for them.
Incidentally, for some reason, every group of them I've ever seen - the bulbs, that is - have been in a Gerber jar with a blue lid. Multiple people I've seen selling Christmas items years ago stored the sub-miniature screw-base bulbs in a Gerber jar, and always the one with a blue lid.
