token pillsbury

[ken-tuck]

well trying to find some history on this token.
it was in a hole i was digging for some bottles.
its not metal.
i did find info on a contest from 1940...but this token is for a larger prize.
token reads...50,000 in coming Pillsbury contest closing oct.31 1949.
other side...Pillsbury Best Flour.
not sure why it has a hole punched in it?
thanks for looking

 

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[Eddie Lomax]

Pillsbury's 1st bake-off contest.

http://www.pillsbury.com/bakeoff/history/1949

A Celebration That Continues
In 1949, the Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest began as the "Grand National Recipe and Baking Contest," set in the elegance of New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. To celebrate Pillsbury's 80th birthday, executives at the company's advertising agency created the contest and invited homemakers to share their treasured recipes. Response was so great that Pillsbury decided to hold it again the following year, and the year after that, until it became an institution.



http://www.pillsbury.com/bakeoff/history

Since our first competition in 1949, more than 4,000 finalists have vied for the Grand Prize. Our first winner took home $50,000. Our next one will walk away with $1 million.

 

[ken-tuck]

great and i thank you much.....nice info..
thanks again

 

[Eddie Lomax]

Here's something more.

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-04-14/...chocolate-baking-chips-ice-cream?_s=PM:LIVING

Contestants, who must be amateurs, have been tossing their toques into the ring since the Bake-Off's inception in 1949. That year, Theodora Smafield of Rockford, Illinois, took home $50,000 for her No-Knead Water-Rising Twists recipe -- a sum doubled from the advertised $25,000 pot by a promotional token that she'd run across two months before.

 

[ken-tuck]

nice info.........i wonder if some collecter would want a token like this....?
wonder how many are still around?
thanks for info