About The Golden Glow of Christmas Past®

The Golden Glow of Christmas Past^® is an amazing organization focusing on the education and history of vintage and antique Christmas ornaments, lights, and decorations.

The Golden Glow was founded in 1980 by Jerry Ehernberger as a club, bringing together a small group of like-minded Christmas light bulb collectors. That little Christmas light bulb club has since grown into an international organization encompassing all vintage and antique Christmas collectibles. It holds a large annual convention in a different continental US city each summer.

The Golden Glow focuses on Christmas items made or manufactured at least 40 years prior to the current year. So for 2026, our organization focuses on Christmas ornaments, lights, decorations, and history from prior to 1987.

All are welcome to join, whatever your collecting experience or level of knowledge.

Members of The Golden Glow of Christmas Past^® receive six issues of The GLOW magazine each year, published every other month. Membership also includes access to our complete website, featuring wonderful articles and an archive of back issues of The GLOW magazine, plus exclusive members-only Facebook groups. These include our Vintage Christmas Marketplace, where members buy and sell the very best of vintage and antique Christmas collectibles.

At The Golden Glow of Christmas Past^®, every day is the most wonderful time of the year!

The organization was registered as a corporation in the State of Illinois on March 19, 1990 and designated in 1998 as a 501(c)(7) social or recreational club organization. This designation means that it is a tax-exempt non-profit; however, it is not a charitable organization, and therefore contributions to the organization are not US Federal Income Tax-deductible.