Pinback Mystery Solved!

[mjkm90]

Thank you for the education Paul. Your commitment to furthering the great hobby of pinback collecting is second to none and your contributions to the collective knowledge base are tremendously valuable. Keep up the great work.

[ooo-ribay]

So glad to read the final version!

It is crazy....just crazy....that these are so rare. Just like that stupid 3" Ken Henderson pin I've been looking for for 20 years.

[baseball tourist]

Nice work Paul!

[DeafSports]

sweet read- I would love to see pictures on these jackie buttons. Think you can get every letters and put it together?

[sayhey24]

Thanks Paul -- great read!

Greg

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by SirGabel

sweet read- I would love to see pictures on these jackie buttons. Think you can get every letters and put it together?

Paul's pic:

[JayZim13]

Paul,

You always do great detective work. I love the story and the facts you have to back it up. Because you see so few Brooklyn Eagle Jackie pins (regardless of the lettering) I would think the newspaper did not distribute as many pins as they would have you believe.

Great to see the blog again.

Jay Zimmerman

[springpin]

Rob and Jay,

Rob, thanks for retrieving the image of the pin from a previous thread/post/column (whatever you call it). In truth it has been so long since I did a column I forgot how to insert a picture among the words. I am sure you are not surprised.

Jay, I know you are from Brooklyn and was wondering what your reaction would be to the story. Your speculation about the number of pins being less than proclaimed is plausible. I presume people could subscribe to the newspaper, and doubt if a pin was manually inserted into each issue (for ten consecutive days, no less). Did they have those square metal boxes back then where you insert a coin to open the box to retrieve a copy of the newspaper? If they did, I can't imagine the Brooklyn Eagle attaching a pin to each issue of the newspaper in the vending machine. That leaves person-to-person points-of-sale as the only other possible way to get a copy of the paper. I also don't know if the Brooklyn Eagle was sold outside of Brooklyn. The ad specifically states the pins were being given out only in Brooklyn. We could probably track down the total circulation of the newspaper, then guestimate how many were sold through news stands. This is the joy/agony of collecting pins. Even when you are lucky enough to track down the origin of a pin, there are some parts to the story that you still don't understand.