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1930s-50s Collection of Dixie Lid Premiums & Puzzles
Starting in the 1930s and every year through 1954, Dixie Lids issued a set of movie star pictures on their now famous ice cream lids. In conjunction with the lids, Dixie also had a premium programwhere 12 Dixie Lids could be traded for one large picture of a chosen movie star. These large premiums were usually 8x10”, in full color, and had pre-punched holes for placing in a binder.This grand collection, with every piece in beautiful EX-MT to NM+ condition, includes:- 1934 complete premium set of 28 - ‘My Scrapbook of Movie Stars’, including Astaire, Powell, Loy, Lombard, Hepburn, Harlow, Gable, Crosby, Cooper, plus seldom-seen front/back covers;- c. 1936 complete premium set of 24 - ‘My Scrap Book of Movie Stars’ in B&W, including Colbert, Cagney, Jackie Cooper, Crabbe, Crawford, Crosby, Harlow, Ginger Rogers, Gable, front/back covers;- 1943 complete premium set of 24 - ‘My Picture Book of Stars’ with ‘Buy War Bond’ references, including William (‘Hopalong’) Boyd, Colbert, Crabbe, Donlevy, Grable, Hope, Ladd, MacMurray, Milland, front/back covers (name/address filled in);- 1944 complete premium set of 24 - ‘My Picture Book of Stars’ with ‘Buy War Bond’ references, including Bendix, Grable, Hope, Hutton, Ladd, Powell, Rogers, front/back covers;- 1945 complete premium set of 24 - ‘My Picture Book of Stars’ with ‘Buy War Bond’ references, including Andrews, Crosby, Goddard, Hayes, Miranda, Rogers, front/back covers;- 1946 complete premium set of 24 - ‘My Picture Book of Stars’, including Crosby, Dale Evans, Garland, Hutton, MacMurray, Peck, Wayne, Ladd, Wilde, front/back covers;- 1947 complete premium set of 24 - ‘My Picture Book of Movie Stars,’ including Allyson, Crosby, Gable, Hope, O’Hara, Roy Rogers, front/back covers;- 1948 complete premium set of 24 - ‘My Picture Book of Movie Stars’, including Haywood, Ladd, Autry, Crosby, Garland, Rooney, front/back covers;- 1949 complete premium set of 24 - ‘My Picture Book of Movie Stars’, including Crosby, Holden, Holm, Lawford, Leigh, Roy Rogers, Weissmuller, front/back covers;- 1950 complete premium set of 24 - ‘My Picture Book of Movie Stars’, including DeCarlo, Derek, Charisse, Ladd, Roy Rogers, Taylor, Wynn, front/back covers.Additionally, this extensive collection includes 32 Dixie Jig-Saw puzzles (125 pieces each, some with a few pieces missing), all with original mailing envelopes and in NM condition. Images are from Dixie’s Nature Series – dogs, birds, fish, butterflies, with paintings by Dan Smith.A truly awesome and complete collection, showing the reach of Dixie Brands from the ‘30s thru the ‚50s.Total of 276 premiums and puzzles.
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