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The Kellogg's Ceral company placed 36 small pinback buttons each featuring a WWII squadron insignia in boxes of their Pep cereal in 1943. I have assembled about 24 of the 36, but I am hoping someone here has a checklist of these small and relatively affordable homefront pins. It would make my searching so much easier if I knew what I was missing.

 

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Jim

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The Kellogg's Ceral company placed 36 small pinback buttons each featuring a WWII squadron insignia in boxes of their Pep cereal in 1943. I have assembled about 24 of the 36, but I am hoping someone here has a checklist of these small and relatively affordable homefront pins. It would make my searching so much easier if I knew what I was missing.

 

Thanks,

Jim

 

 

Jim, Here's a list of the pep pins. This came from a book "Illustrated Radio Premium catalog and price guide" Copyright 1989 by Tom Tumbusch.

The book also shows some of the pins.

 

Regards, Texasradio

 

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The Kellogg's Ceral company placed 36 small pinback buttons each featuring a WWII squadron insignia in boxes of their Pep cereal in 1943. I have assembled about 24 of the 36, but I am hoping someone here has a checklist of these small and relatively affordable homefront pins. It would make my searching so much easier if I knew what I was missing.

 

Thanks,

Jim

I'd love to see some photos of these!

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Here are some of the pins. I used this pic as these are duplicates are labeled. On the back of each pin is the word Pep and they are less than an inch aprox. 3/4 inch. The airplane pins are an inch and are a bit more scarce.

 

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Johnny Signor
Here are some of the pins. I used this pic as these are duplicates are labeled. On the back of each pin is the word Pep and they are less than an inch aprox. 3/4 inch. The airplane pins are an inch and are a bit more scarce.

 

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The pin in the center with Bird/crossed missles is the USN VBF-12 insignia

Johnny

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Lightning Ace

Here's the way I have my Kellogg's Pep squadron Pins and cereal squadron patches displayed in a picture frame in my collection that I'm in the process of liquidating.

 

Mike

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Homefrontguy
Here's the way I have my Kellogg's Pep squadron Pins and cereal squadron patches displayed in a picture frame in my collection that I'm in the process of liquidating.

 

Mike

 

 

Can you post the pic again please. Thanks. Id love to see it.

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Richard Kimmel
The Kellogg's Ceral company placed 36 small pinback buttons each featuring a WWII squadron insignia in boxes of their Pep cereal in 1943. I have assembled about 24 of the 36, but I am hoping someone here has a checklist of these small and relatively affordable homefront pins. It would make my searching so much easier if I knew what I was missing.

 

Thanks,

Jim

Geez, I remember these from when I was a kid back in the 40's. I had a considerable number of these and the comic characters as well. Somewhere along the way they got tossed. I remember also having the Pep benne that some were attached to. My mother, bless here soul, had a habit of cleaning house from time to time, especially after I was married and moved out.

 

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Geez, I remember these from when I was a kid back in the 40's. I had a considerable number of these and the comic characters as well. Somewhere along the way they got tossed. I remember also having the Pep benne that some were attached to. My mother, bless here soul, had a habit of cleaning house from time to time, especially after I was married and moved out.

 

Richard

 

 

Richard

I have my dad's beenie with the pep cartoon pins in it, Popeye and others. He graduated in 45 and off to the Army. I have his hat and old stuffed animal. Very cool pins.

Bob

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Lightning Ace

Hopefully my picture will come through this time.

Mike

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the way I have my Kellogg's Pep squadron Pins and cereal squadron patches displayed in a picture frame in my collection that I'm in the process of liquidating.

 

Mike

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Thunderbolt

This brings back memories for me. Back in the 40s all of my friends and I collected and traded these. The cereal was terrible (instant sludge when you added milk) but we choked it down to get those buttons.

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bayonetman

Sorry about the photo quality - these are some that I sold on eBay a couple of years ago.

 

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Today I received my lot of 21 of the 36 possible PEP Squadron pins, in a great exchange with arclight, and am very glad to have a start on the set; Thanks for all who contributed to this thread.

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