Roger Sunshine Collectibles


RADIO PREMIUM RINGS

1. Buck Rogers Ring Of Saturn - 1946 - White "crocodile" base glows in the dark, and is topped by a red plastic "stone" - this was the last (but certainly not the least) ring released in the "crocodile" series.

2. The Shadow Blue Coal Ring - 1941 - Blue chunk of "coal" on top of a glow-in-the-dark white base, with two tiny figures of The Shadow flanking the Blue Coal "stone."

3. Jack Armstrong - 1940 - Dragon's Eye Ring. Green "stone" at top of glow-in-the-dark white crocodile setting. This is the rarest of the crocodile series which includes the Buck Rogers Ring of Saturn from 1946 and the Shadow Blue Coal Ring from 1941. The rings in this series bring high prices in C9 and better condition.

4. Roy Rogers Microscope Ring - 1949 - Quaker Oats premium. You can do all kinds of experiments with this cool ring, like look at your friends'fingerprints if he or she still had them after shooting off all those caps with our cap pistols.

5. Lone Ranger Atom Bomb Ring - 1947 - Kix Cereal - Arguably the all-time most popular radio premium, we were actually convinced that you could go into your closet (or other very dark spot), take off the red plastic cap, look into the viewer in the metal part of the ring, and see green "scintillations" coming from the small piece of radioactive ore inside. So that's what happened to me!

6. Tom Mix Tiger Eye Ring - 1950 - Glows in the dark and not much else but, hey, this was our jewelry.

7. Tom Mix Stanhope Look-In Mystery Ring, 1938. This is simply a great looking radio premium. A piece of jewelry, and a cross-collectible. I've always been fascinated by "stanhopes", various items such as pens, letter openers, mini-binoculars, sewing items and rings, which contained a tiny hole through which you could view a picture. This ring has a photo of Tom Mix & his horse Tony, and a short autographed note to his Straight-Shooters fans.

8. Tom Mix Sliding Whistle Ring, 1949. A brass & aluminum ring with a whistle you could slide in and out for different tones, for signaling purposes. This looks and operates so much like the Lone Ranger Filmstrip Ring, it had to be a variation done by the same manufacturer. Another great Ralston Tom Mix premium.

9. Sky King 2-Way Tele-Blinker Ring, 1949. Using this brass, aluminum & black metal large ring, you could flash morse code in two ways. There's a flash of white on the side and a click when pressing down on the black box. On this great Peter Pan Peanut Butter premium was also a mini-telescope for spotting enemy aircraft. As with the spy-detecto writer, there was a serial number on each of the official tele-blinker rings. Nice touch!

10. Lone Ranger Saddle Ring With Film, 1950. A really beautiful metal ring base, complete with the brass saddle which slid off to insert the film strip. The white metal base had a film guide with luminous paper, and you would insert the film to expose one of the pictures to a light sourse. You would then reveal the picture, which would appear on the luminous paper in the darkness of your room or closet. Re-exposing the luminous paper would "erase" the image, so you could capture the next picture. The film guide could also serve to conceal a secret message! If all that wasn't enough, you could expose the luminous paper to light, then send code signals by covering and uncovering the luminous paper. The one pictured is extra valuable since it is in "dead mint" condition and has the original film strip.

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