Dick, The Ringmaster Ice Cream Lid

ICE CREAM PAPER LID. Dastardly-looking mustachioed ringmaster with a top hat, green suit, small whip, on a round paper lid from this series: "39....ONE OF THE HEROES OF THE DIXIES CIRCUS” copyright "I.D.C. CO. INC."............. The first Dixie Cup lids, issued 1930 through 1932, depicted 24 ``animal heroes`` from the Dixie-sponsored Circus Radio Stories program and, later, Bob Sherwood`s Radio Stories. These lids go back to 1930 (and were discontinued in 1954) when Dixie sold them to individual dairies to hold single-serve helpings of ice cream.