Shiny Brite
Hunlock Creek PA
2015

https://www.bhg.com/christmas/ornaments/shiny-brite-ornaments/

If you've ever helped your grandparents decorate their Christmas tree, chances are you've hung a few Shiny Brite ornaments. The ornaments (appropriately named for their signature shiny coating) were insanely popular in the 1940s and 50s, so many people in our grandparents' generation still have and use the ornaments today.

First made in Germany in the late 1930s, Shiny Brites were created by ornament maker Max Eckardt, who had the idea to coat glass ornaments with silver nitrate to make them stay shiny longer than any other ornaments on the market. At the onset of World War II, Eckardt moved the company to America and found almost instant success. The ornaments were so popular that he partnered with the Corning Glass Company in Corning, New York in order to make more inventory. In 1939, Woolworth's ordered 235,000 ornaments—and sold them for just two cents each.