Rarest of the Rare W. R. Frisbie, founder of the Frisbie Pie Company, is featured on this tin, the only one know to exist. This is before his son, Joseph P. Frisbie, expanded the company into the formidable force of pie that inadvertently launched a pastime. [P26] Pie Bag To bag a Frisbie’s pie, you needed this! Frisbie's Pies Ad Frisbie Pie Company ad placed in Bridgeport Life in 1941 Pie Menu Frisbie Pies list of available flavors Then, there is the “Holy Grail” Perforated F restaurant tin [P4]. This might provoke a religious experience if you are fortunate enough to snag one. At best, a handful are known to exist. These larger diameter tins held more pie and are presumed to have been employed in the higher volume restaurant trade.The one I found came completely by surprise, having followed a lead to a woman’s home in Vernon, Connecticut—there it was in her kitchen, the first Restaurant Frisbie pie plate I had ever laid my eyes on.

In addition to the crucial connection to our flying disc pastimes, Frisbie memorabilia is also worth collecting for its representation of American entrepreneurial drive and innovation. As a deep-rooted New Englander with Frisbee flowing through my veins, the Frisbie Pie Company marks a logical and sentimental intersection of both. It was Yankee ingenuity that spawned the Industrial Revolution. Even small streams were utilized for hydropower for innovative industrial uses. I now live on one that once had several mills along its course. One was on my property that powered a shingle making operation in the original structure that now constitutes the basement of our home. Large Letter Hand Stamped 5¢ DEP Rare Large Letter, round shouldered Frisbie tin with a hand stamped 5¢ DEP [P19] Small Letter Hand Stamped 5 A rare, crude hand stamped 5, representing 5¢ deposit that appears on an oblique shouldered, small letter Frisbie tin [P20] Large Letter 5¢ DEP Reversed Large Letter, round shouldered Frisbie tin with a reverse 5¢ DEP. hand stamp; hand stamped tins have unique stamp placement, dependent on the casual whim of the stamper [P21] Perforated F Tin Hand Stamped 5¢ DEP Extremely rare Perforated F tin with a hand stamped 5¢ DEP. also distinctive for its deep shoulder, rarely found in this style [P22]The other main differentiating factor oftins is the slope and depth of their shoulders. So-called Square Shoulder tins are of the deep-dish variety tailored for apple/cherry/rhubarb, etc. pies.Shallower oblique and round-shouldered tins held custard style pies [P12].

Talking Tins have magnetic caps that will sit on any steel food can (please note: food cans not included). The magnet will also secure the cap to a metal adaptor (included), which has a self-adhesive pad to fix it to any object. Or secure it to a variety of objects using the elastic VELCRO® brand strap. Flying disc play, seemingly forever, has been a fringe sport dear to the hearts of a relatively few “Frisbee Freaks.” But now, at least in part, in reaction to people looking for alternatives to our long covid isolation, disc sports, in particulardisc golf, are no longer the obscure refuge of a select few. Our delightful pastimes are now with trembling handspassed on to the masses. This makes documenting the history of flying disc play and its origins in the likes of the Frisbie Pie Company, more essential now than ever. We are a mainstream, inclusive school that fully complies with the requirements outlined in the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice (2014). At Southgate Primary School we recognise that the quality of teaching within the classroom has the greatest influence over children’s progress. We therefore invest in training, resources and monitoring to ensure our classrooms are an inclusive place for all children. This is known as the ‘Universal Provision’ or ‘Quality First Teaching’. There are many recordable resources on the market such as Talking Postcards and Talking Pegs. Recordable buttons such as Talking Points offer many solutions to many classroom problems – the ten ideas below are tried and tested, though I’m sure you will come up with many more of your own! Here are my ten favourite ways to use this versatile resource: The Frisbie Pie Company thrived in Bridgeport’s industrial days of glory; it too a story of Yankee Ingenuity. And for us who fling plastic, the Frisbie Pie Company is generic to the developing roots of our pastime: first were the Frisbie drivers scaling the tins. This closely contained epidemic then went regionally viral as “Spheroid Metallicus” spread to college students all over New England. They’d scale anything pie tin/lid-like they could get their hands on, which developed into a spreading contagion they called “Frisbieing.”Pupils are given extra take-up time for responses to questions or contributions to group discussions Is it a Frisbie? Small diameter, shallow shouldered tin found in Eastern Connecticut with a raised letter F, which remains a mystery as to its origin [P23]

Reversed Large Letter DEP One of a very few Large Letter Reverse DEP. Frisbie tins; the off center DEP. makes one wonder if for some reason, the 5¢ was omitted [P15] Reversed Large Letter 5¢ DEP Reversed Large Letter, 5c DEP. Frisbie tin. Flip the reversed letter Frisbie tins over to flying mode, and Frisbie reads correctly {P16] Reversed Small Letter DEP Small Letter reversed, square shouldered DEP. Frisbie tin [P17] Reversed Small Letter 5¢ DEP Small Letter reversed, square shouldered, 5¢ DEP. Frisbie tin [P18] Simultaneously, the west coast experienced a separate but related flare up of flinging, first with metal but soon finding its eternal host in plastic. This developing strain known as "Spheroid Plasticus" marked the birth of a pastime, but a pastime sorely in need of a catchy name to match the soar of its namesakes. Hard to imagine tossers exclaiming, “Let’s go out and play some Pluto Platter!” Large Letter No Holes The standard LL pie tin, minus the venting holes [P9] Small Letter No Holes Square shouldered, Small Letter Frisbie tin with no venting holes [P10] Large Letter 12 Holes Frisbie pie tin with 12 venting holes [P11] Small Letter Oblique Shoulder Oblique shouldered Frisbie tin with venting holes [P12] Of course, peak season for pie sales is the holidays, and the Frisbie Pie Company came up with fancy greeting cards depicting warm scenes of baking goings-on, to send out to vendors and customers. Appropriately corny verse described these homey scenes, no doubt further building appetites for Frisbie’s baked goods. Examples of provision can be found below. Your child's teacher will carefully select the support that is best suited their need.One of my favorite Frisbie items is a very hard to find Frisbie pie cutter. There are also postcards, both of Bridgeport, Kossuth Street, Center of Piedom and another of the Hartford Frisbie bakery. (Frisbie also had factories and or distribution points in Providence, Rhode Island; Poughkeepsie, New York; and Springfield, Massachusetts.) Targeted Provision' is then planned to enablechildren to accelerate their progress and work at, or above the expectations for their age. These sessions are generally taught in a small groups and sometimes ona 1:1 basis. They can also be strategies used with the children to help them be successful in the classroom. Perforated F Restaurant Tin “Holy Grail” large diameter restaurant Frisbie tin featuring a rounded shoulder [P4]

Perforated F Tin A “heavy metal” Frisbie tin, likely of greater vintage than those of lighter weight retaining their shiny patina [P1] Develop comprehension: Record captions for pictures. Allow pupils to match the correct Talking Point to the correct picture. This could make a fine game!Support pupils in positions of responsibility: Pupils can record the messages that they are asked to take to other classrooms or school staff. They can then play them on the way so that they are more reliable and independent in delivering the right message to the right person. Rarer still are the reverse letter (RL) “DEP.” and “5¢ DEP” tins, again to be found in both LL and SL versions [P15–P18]. Frisbee legend, Jim Palmeri has said he’s particularly fond of the RL tins, because when flipped in throwing mode, “Frisbie” appears correctly.