The balance of the Dixie Lid collection from 1950 until its conclusion in 1954 missing the baseball sets, which can be found in the following lot.
Lot 173. The balance of the Dixie Lid collection from 1950 until its conclusion in 1954 missing the baseball sets, which can be found in the following lot. A total of 150 lids, 126 have their tabs, from the 5 Cowboy and Movie Star sets. 1950 Movie Stars series of 24 – There is a near set of 19 in small size, 18 with tabs and a set of 24 medium size with 17 tabs. Better names include Dale Evans and Roy Rogers in the small and Bing Crosby, Evans, Rogers and Elizabeth Taylor in the Medium. Average condition in the small is excellent and in the large excellent+. 1951 Movie Stars series of 24 – There are 16 in small size, 14 with tabs and a partial set of 17 medium size with 16 tabs. Better names include Crosby, Betty Grable and Roy Rogers in the small and Grable, Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, Rogers and Esther Williams in the Medium. Average condition in the small is excellent and in the large averages very good-excellent. 1952 Movie Stars series of 24 – There is a near set of 23 (missing Robert Taylor) in small size, all with tabs and a partial set of 18 medium size all with tabs. 9 have their original paper backing. Better names include Crosby, Dagmar, Gable, Hope, Gene Kelly, Mario Lanza Elizabeth Taylor and John Wayne in the small and Dagmar, Hope, Kelly, Lanza and Taylor in the Medium. Average condition in the small is excellent and in the large averages excellent-mint. 1953 Movie Stars series of 24 – There are 5 in small size, all with tabs and a partial set of 16 medium size all with tabs. Better names include Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz, John Wayne in small and Milton Berle, Jane Russell and Red Skelton in large. 1954 Movie Stars series of 24 – This was Dixie’s first full color lid set. There are 10 in medium size, 9 with tabs and a 7 large size all with tabs. In addition the lot includes a 1950 Purtian Ice Cream Lid With Hopalong Cassidy (blank back, mint), 3 Longines Repro Dixie Lids (nr mt-mt), 2 Dixie Elsie Prize Lids from 1958, blank back and nr mint and 8 1963-5 Large Dixie Prize Lids (blank and near mint to mint). Minimum Bid $1,000.
