Q: I have a white glass bowl with a red picture of the Lone Ranger on it. I can't find out anything about it. Can you help?A: The first radio program featuring the Lone Ranger was broadcast on January 30, 1933, in Detroit. By summer the show was a huge hit. Several times a year the program would make special premium offers of Lone Ranger items. They cost only 10 or 15 cents, plus a box top from cereal boxes. Your bowl was part of a set offered as one of those premiums. It was probably made by Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. (1902-1964) of Wheeling, West Virginia. Hazel-Atlas made jars, tumblers, and tableware made-to-order for companies as advertising premiums. The Lone Ranger set also had a plate, cup, and saucer. They are worth $15 to $25 each.
4 comments:
I always wondered why he was called the Lone Ranger when Tonto was always with him...
Wow! I envy you with that bowl! I could have sent away for it but didn't have the money back then. I used to cut vines to sell to the goat man for his goats; he gave me a nickel and I spent it right away on a double grape Popsicle.
Now at this late age I have started to collect Lone Ranger memorabilia..right before he died Clayton Moore sent me an autographed matchbook for my matchbook collection.
RIP, Lone Ranger.
HE WAS CALLED "THE LONE RANGER" B/C HE WAS THE ONLY SURVIVOR OF SIX RANGERS WHO WERE AMBUSHED. HERE'S THE WORDS FROM THE THEME SONG...
Six Texas Rangers (Hi-yo, hi-yo) rode in the sun (Hi-yo, hi-yo); Six men of justice rode into an ambush, and dead were all but one.
One lone survivor (Hi-yo, hi-yo) lay on the trail (Hi-yo, hi-yo);
Found there by Tonto, the brave Injun Tonto, he lived to tell the tale.
(Hi-yo Silver, Hi-yo Silver away! Hi-yo Silver, Hi-yo Silver away!)
His wounds quickly mended (Hi-yo, hi-yo)
and then in the night (Hi-yo, hi-yo),
Six graves were put there to hide from the outlaws that one had lived to fight.
He chose silver bullets (Hi-yo, hi-yo) the sign of his name (Hi-yo, hi-yo);
A mask to disguise him, a great silver stallion, and thus began his fame.
(Hi-yo Silver, Hi-yo Silver away! Hi-yo Silver, Hi-yo Silver away! THE LONE RANGER IS HIS NAME!)
Thank you for the words to the song.I never knew he was a Texas Ranger. All very interesting. Springleaf7
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