Dixie Lids

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Lot 77.  1937 Dixie Lid Black and White 2 1/4" size complete set of 24. One of the two Dixie Lid sets before the 1950's that featured athletes. In 1937 four baseball players, Gabby Hartnett (ex), Joe Medwick (ex+). Carl Hubbell (ex+) and Charlie Gehringer (ex+), one tennis star, Bill Tilden (ex+) and an Champion Olympic diver, Georgia Coleman (ex). The movie stars include Bill Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy), Gene Autry, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Myrna Loy. All the lids have the tab and are at least excellent.
Winning Bid $2,144.


Lot 78.  1937 Dixie Lid Wine 2 3/4 wine colored set of 24. The four baseball, Hubbell (ex-mt), Gehringer (ex-mt), Hartnett (ex-mt) and Medwick (ex-mt). Other important lids are Champion Olympic diver Georgia Coleman, Clark Gable, Gene Autry, Bill Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy) and Carole Lombard. All other lids are excellent and better including tennis star Bill Tilden.
Winning Bid $1,771.


Lot 79.  1938 Dixie Lid 2 1/4" size set of 24 with 6 having original tissue paper on lid including Hubbell. The set includes 6 advertised sports stars, 4 baseball players Bob Feller (ex-mt), Jimmie Foxx (nr mt), Wally Moses (nr mt) and Carl Hubbell (mint with original paper) and 2 football players, Bronko Nagurski (ex-mt) and Sammy Baugh (ex-mt). Olympic Ice skater Sonja Henie (mint with original tissue) should be considered a 7th athlete, Other prominent personalities in the set are Tex Ritter, William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy), Gary Cooper and Gene Autry. All are at least excellent and most are ex-mt.
Winning Bid $2,860.


Lot 80.  Three extremely rare off size 1938 Dixie Lid variations. Bob Feller, Jimmie Foxx and Wally Moses all in mint condition with their original tissue paper on the lids. The 1938 Dixie Lids came in the 2 1/4" and 2 3/4" sizes. These three lids are distinctly in between at 2 7/16". To the best of my knowledge and that of my consignor, who is a very knowledgeable Dixie Lid, no others are known. All three have Dixie Lid ads on the top with green printing from Hendries Ice Cream Milton, Mass.
Winning Bid $1,210.
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