Vintage FRISBIES Pie Co. TIN plate 12-hole FRISBEE

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From a Connecticut estate comes this great slice of cultural history. Frisbie's pie tins of this type are the true ancestors of the iconic FRISBEE plastic toy we all know and love. This tin measures 9-5/8" in diameter, has a great old patina, and would make a great kitchen display item and conversation piece. This plate has an unusual 12-hole pattern, rather than the usual 6.A bit of history -- In 1948, California World War II veteran Walter Frederick ("Fred") Morrison developed an injection-molded plastic flying disc he called the "Pluto Platter". Morrison was demonstrating his Pluto Platter in a Los Angeles parking lot in 1955 when Rich Knerr and Spud Melin spotted the unusual flying object. Knerr and Melin had founded their own toy company -- "Wham-O" -- also in 1948. Morrison signed a contract with Wham-O, which sold the Pluto Platter with a marketing expertise Morrison never achieved. Knerr came up with a new name for the disc after visiting East Coast college campuses in the mid-1950s. He was t giving away Pluto Platters to seed market demand. At Yale he encountered students tossing metal pie tins and yelling "Frisbie!" the way golfers yell "Fore!" Historians have traced that tradition to a Bridgeport, Connecticut baker named William Russell Frisbie. In 1871 Frisbie moved to Bridgeport to manage the local branch of the Olds read more

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