Vintage Dizzy Dean Pin 1930’s Winner’s Club Post Cereal Premium (2) Portrait & Bat

Presented is a lot of 2 Dizzy Dean Winners Club Pins Post Cereal Premiums One features Dean’s Profile on a Baseball with red lettering beneath that reads, “DIZZY DEAN WINNERS”. (1-1/16″ x 1″) The other features a Bat & Ball with red lettering on the bat that reads, “DIZZY DEAN WINNERS” and red stitches on the ball . (2″ x 9/16″) Textural details (wood grain on bat; stitches on ball of profile pin) are very clear.

In a 1935 Post Cereal promotion, advertised through a comic strip campaign; when you sent in a top from one full-size yellow-and blue Grape-Nuts package, with your name and address, you received this Dizzy Dean Winner’s membership pin. You also received a free copy of the club manual- “Win with Dizzy Dean” containing list of 37 swell free prizes which included; a “Dizzy Dean Good Luck Piece” or a facsimile autographed 8×10 of Dizzy Dean for one Grape-Nuts package top, a Dizzy Dean Winners Ring or for two package tops, or a Dizzy Dean Winners Baseball Charm for three package tops.

The membership pin, is made of solid bronze with an antique finished ball and baseball bat that reads “Dizzy Dean Winners” with red enameled lettering. – “A pin you’ll be proud to wear. Boys can wear it as a tie pin or on a coat lapel, sweater cap or belt; girls on dresses, sweaters scarves and berets or as a bar pin.”

The promotion ended December 31, 1935. The following year in 1936, Post offered a Dizzy Dean Membership pin with a new design; two-toned solid bronze with red lettering. The pin features a raised portrait of Dizzy Dean on a baseball and reads “Dizzy Dean Winners” below.

Vintage Dizzy Dean Pin 1930’s Winner’s Club Post Cereal Premium