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Are Dixie Cup Lids "Cards"?
Posted By: Charles E. Moore
I know this eBay item is a bit newer than most of the boards' interest, but it this considered a card. Looks kinda neat! |
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Are Dixie Cup Lids "Cards"?
Posted By: hankron
Personally, I wouldn't call them cards (just my opinion, others are welcome to disagree), but they fall within the general genre of baseball cards-- along with silks and P2 Pins and Diamond matchbook covers. They are legitimate collectables and people collect them, so there's no reason not to buy one if it interests you. |
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Are Dixie Cup Lids "Cards"?
Posted By: warshawlaw
They've been considered cards since issue and are in all the major references as such. They are very cool items for player collectors. I picked up a nice Al Rosen at the national. Don't know if the slabbers would do them... |
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Are Dixie Cup Lids "Cards"?
Posted By: jay behrens
Not a card in the classic sense. They were meant to be collected, but they are not a card. Just becuase something is listed in price guides does not mean it is a card. |
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Are Dixie Cup Lids "Cards"?
Posted By: Ryan Christoff
Why would they not be considered cards? Is it because they were issued with ice cream instead of, oh let's say bread or hot dogs? If so, what about Tharp's, Harrington's or Yeungling's? |
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Are Dixie Cup Lids "Cards"?
Posted By: hankron
According to Jefferson Burdick and several contemporary biblical scholars, a baseball card isn't allowed to have a tail. |
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Are Dixie Cup Lids "Cards"?
Posted By: Ryan Christoff
As people's frustration grew with being unable to access their ice cream without repeatedly stabbing the protective cover with a steak knife, the lids grew closer and closer to extinction. In a case of adaptation at its finest, the dixie cup lids sprouted tails, thus ensuring the survival of their species. |
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Are Dixie Cup Lids "Cards"?
Posted By: jay behrens
Colgans are more a card than dixie lids. Dixie LID should tell you everything you need to know. It's a lid, not a card. More a quasi-card. It's that grey area where it's not really card, but it's more than just a lid, etc. |
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Are Dixie Cup Lids "Cards"?
Posted By: Chuck Ross
For what it's worth, Burdick classified a wide range of items as "insert cards". His grouping includes all the obvious rectangular standbys, but also pins, blankets, matchbooks, rugs, silks,etc. All of these things have ACC numbers, including the baseball Dixie lids and premiums, which are categorized as F7 (in the food card group along with items like Yuengling's Ice Cream (F50) and Hires Root Beer (F211)). I think there is precedent for considering collectibles that are part of the packaging (as opposed to inserted in packaging) as cards. But the bottom line, as someone stated above, is: if you like 'em, collect 'em. Who really cares what classification they come under? |
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Are Dixie Cup Lids "Cards"?
Posted By: Gilbert Maines
Well, this is a VBC forum. Previous threads have adequately addressed the meaning of the "V". It appears reasonable to identify the meaning of the "C". |
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Are Dixie Cup Lids "Cards"?
Posted By: Georgina
The fact that this item was a "lid" a functional piece of the product and not an "insert", an addition to the package takes it down a notch in my mind; plus it being associated with "ice cream"-a dessert type food as opposed to franks or poultry a main couse, takes it down the pecking order still further. My opinion is, you should collect it, but keep it well hidden. Thanks, Georgie |
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Are Dixie Cup Lids "Cards"?
Posted By: Eric
Dixie's are as much a baseball card issue as any other vintage set out there. They're made out of cardboard, feature a baseball player, and WERE INTENDED to be removed and collected. |
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Are Dixie Cup Lids "Cards"?
Posted By: hankron
Why does it matter what they are classified as? Whether labelled as 'trading cards,' 'lids' or 'laughing monkey beans from Tanzania' they are the same exact things. |
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Are Dixie Cup Lids "Cards"?
Posted By: Gilbert Maines
Ahh yes, Georgie! |
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Are Dixie Cup Lids "Cards"?
Posted By: hankron
Gilbert, I think Georgie was being an anonymous smart ass, little more. |
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