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Pulp premiums - rings, badges, bracelets @ Hake's

Hake's Auctions has a few rare and amazing pulp premiums up for sale. Thought you'd enjoy seeing them. Operator 5 Ring Original Operator 5 ring : This is a very high grade example of a rare pulp magazine premium ring. The ring was offered briefly during the 1934 introductory year of the Popular Publications pulp titled Secret Service Operator #5. The ring was made by the jewelry manufacturing firm Uncas whose trademark of a letter "U" with an arrow  horizontally crossing its midpoint  appears partially formed ( the top of the "U" and arrow point to the right can be seen)   due to a light striking on the inner surface of the ring band: however, next to the Uncas logo is the bold and very deeply incised words MADE IN U.S.A. Those rings sent within the U.S.A, carry only the Uncas trademark and we've offered six of these in 53 years. Those rings, like this one, that were distributed in Canada carry both the trademark and text and this is only our ...