Auction #9 - October 2021
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/24/2021
In 1935, the Dixie Lid company began a run of 20 years of issuing small lids for their ice cream cups picturing movie stars and western heroes. In addition, they issued lids picturing Baseball stars and other subjects like animals and scenes of war. In addition to the smaller lids, they also issued 8" wide by 10" tall premiums that could be had for mail in redemption. They were very colorful representations of the smaller lids in the series and could be assembled into a booklet with generic front and back covers issued for each year's premiums. The series lasted through 1954 and are popular with movie star and western card collectors and also the baseball premiums and lids are popular with sports collectors. Due to the size of the premiums and the manner of issuance of the lids, they are all condition conscious. With holes pre-punched in the premiums, those spots are most fragile and often the premiums are found with round, white hole punch reinforcements added to the premiums.
This lot of (14) F5-17 Dixie Lid Premiums includes the following subjects: Front Cover, Back Cover, Jeanne Crain, Bing Crosby, Arlene Dahl, Penny Edwards, Vera-Allen(2), Rhonda Fleming, Betty Grable, Nancy Olson, Jane Powell(2) and Esther Williams.
A representative sample of the cards in the lot have been scanned.
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