Vintage Pifco Fairy Lights

[optima]

Lights

These lights are not Poinettia's

 

[optima]

Sorry Phil, i think they are.

 

[keymatic3203]

Hi optima

those are called `carnival lights' and looking at the white bulb holders, those are from the mid to late 80's.

Mathew

 

[liberatordeluxe]

Hi Bellingmad,

Terribly sorry for taking ages to reply but I haven't been on the net in ages!

I have started to build up a collection of Pifco lights but so far I just have the Glitterlites. Other than Ebay I have no idea where one finds them. They go for silly money on Ebay in my opinion.

I do have a set of Noma 'Pickwick' and 'Winter Crystals' too.

I saw in Roys of Wroxham that they have Premier petal lights back again however the lighting string is on a loop rather than straight line construction which seems daft.

One thing I have noticed is it was easier decorating with the old transparent green cable compared to the heavy duty one of today!

Ben

 

[liberatordeluxe]

Wilko Lights

I bought a set of 35 berry lights from Wilko but they look like Premier 35 cherry lights. Does anyone know if Premier make Wilko's Christmas lighting for them? Can't be that many lighting manufacturers can there?

 

[srad4d]

my London lights

Hi all I was just looking up bulb voltage for my Pifco lights when I came across this discussion

So here's a picture of my Pifco London lights with screw in bulbs, checked to be working as I packed them away today for another 11 months or so.

But I also have a set of 20 smaller Pifco lanterns with push in bulbs. So can anyone advise me what voltage the push in ones are as I need to find replacements for some of them

Thanks

 

[mcduffpth]

pifco lights

Hi there, 20 lights sets push-in and screw-in use 12v 1.1w replacement bulbs however not all push-in bulbs have the same plastic collar so aren't all interchangeable.
I have a preference for the old woolworths light sets with the transparent green twisted cord and green lamp-holders, these sets were very resilient and shades/bulbs were all interchangeable - I have resurrected many old pifco lights by using the pifco shades on woolworths lights.
eBay is the best place for sourcing vintage bulbs and sets,
hope this helps,
Grant

 

[teeter59]

Post# 709379

I am always searching for Cinderella lights by Pifco. I have found a few but they are always out of my price range. My grandmother had them when I was a child and I would love to happen upon a set. If anyone has some for sale, let me know! I have included pictures below. Tee

 

[artcurus]

I have about 50 of the double flasher sets from the late 60's-late 70's. They are an ungodly pain in the ass to maintain.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Cry...798571?hash=item41b4f4876b:g:b78AAOSwYIxX9WU1

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Chr...625910?hash=item56813fbeb6:g:82sAAOSwoydWnVgE

 

[tina]

Wilko Lights

Wilko lights were indeed all made by Premier. Not sure if they still are as I am no longer near a Wilko store unfortunately.

 

[tina]

pifco lights

Hi Grant, the push in lamps can be interchangeable. A lot of the push in bases are not glued. If you pull down the metal wires you can slide the plastic base off and you can then replace the glass lamp with one of the same voltage etc. I hate to see old sets being thrown away so found a way around it

 

[liberatordeluxe]

@tina i thought as much because they used to sell petal shaded lights. I also found out a few years ago that Noma made Homebase Christmas lights in 1999/2000 and they actually told me via an email i sent regarding how identical the Homebase and Noma branded ones looked. They basically said it was the same product just different packaging.