Full Metal Digger
10-31-2013, 12:12 PM
Hey Diggers, I was at an older park yesterday over in East St. Louis. It's a park I took Tony 2-Cent to when he visited last year. It's very trashy and has been Metal Detected plenty over the years. I was working a trashy area looking for for deep high tones. I got a penny/dime signal at 8 inches deep and popped out a little charm in the shape of a car. It was originally gold-plated and says good luck on the front with a 4-leaf clover and the words ROI-TAN on the back. I did some research and here's what I learned.
In 1939, the ROI-TAN cigar company had a contest where they would give away a brand new 1939 Chevrolet each day of the year. To enter the contest you had to send in 5 cigar bands and complete this sentence in 25 words or less: MAN TO MAN--SMOKE ROI-TAN BECAUSE...
Each day, the judges would read all the entries received the previous day and select a winner based on originality and sincerity. All of the non-winners were sent a gold-plated good luck charm depicting a 1939 Chevrolet. The slogan for the contest was Remember, an auto a day is given away!
This is what I love about this hobby we share. I would never have learned of this contest had I not found one of the charms! Here's some pics and thanks for looking. Best wishes and HH, Dave.
http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af95/daddydigger1/IMG_1629_zps20150b27.jpg (http://s997.photobucket.com/user/daddydigger1/media/IMG_1629_zps20150b27.jpg.html)
http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af95/daddydigger1/IMG_1630_zps04254ed6.jpg (http://s997.photobucket.com/user/daddydigger1/media/IMG_1630_zps04254ed6.jpg.html)
In 1939, the ROI-TAN cigar company had a contest where they would give away a brand new 1939 Chevrolet each day of the year. To enter the contest you had to send in 5 cigar bands and complete this sentence in 25 words or less: MAN TO MAN--SMOKE ROI-TAN BECAUSE...
Each day, the judges would read all the entries received the previous day and select a winner based on originality and sincerity. All of the non-winners were sent a gold-plated good luck charm depicting a 1939 Chevrolet. The slogan for the contest was Remember, an auto a day is given away!
This is what I love about this hobby we share. I would never have learned of this contest had I not found one of the charms! Here's some pics and thanks for looking. Best wishes and HH, Dave.
http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af95/daddydigger1/IMG_1629_zps20150b27.jpg (http://s997.photobucket.com/user/daddydigger1/media/IMG_1629_zps20150b27.jpg.html)
http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af95/daddydigger1/IMG_1630_zps04254ed6.jpg (http://s997.photobucket.com/user/daddydigger1/media/IMG_1630_zps04254ed6.jpg.html)