Good afternoon…

Here are some plastic putz houses I recently acquired…yes…I know they are not cardboard…but “let me get by with posting them“… ...

I sort of remember ted describing them as the “last gasp”…or something like that…near the “end of an era“…

Bases are about the size of a business card…heights from 3” to 5 ½” tall…the white plastic has yellowed with age…printed graphic wraps are colorful and highly detailed…light hole in the back fits the small clear or multi-color lights…I can find no copyright or country of origin…the date of manufacture was probably in the 60s or 70s…I have no idea as to how many came in a set of houses…

The main reason I got them was to use as a guide for making and posting a series of pattern for small, easy to make and houses…(note…they will not be exact copies)…hopefully I be able to post the patterns in 2013 on the forum for all to use…they will use small printed doors with red window material…

My very best regards…

Howard…

Thanks for posting these, Howard. I saw these or something like them on the Cartel list, but have been to slammed to do anything about those or the dozens of other great photos that have come through recently.

- Paul

Very nice!! I am not sure why maybe it is the shape but they bring to mind the Miniature Plastic Nativity I loved as a child and still do….

I know this is an older post, but I have been a little busy.

Howard, I love these! I have a set from the 70s that I acquired for under my tree at that time. My brother has similar ones with colored roofs but I always seemed to go for the ones with the white roofs. As I said, I got them in the 70s and I think your "last gasp" era was a bit before that. Thanks for sharing--it is wonderful to see that others do like the later generations of what the cardboard houses turned into. BTW, mine still sit beneath the mini-tree in our bedroom each Christmas. The cardboard ones sit downstairs under the trees there.