{"title":"1992 Albertville Olympic Pins","description":"\u003cp\u003ePins from the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville, France, including the Oscar Mayer family USA Olympic Team sponsor series of winter sport pins.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"1992-albertville-olympic-pin-mcdonalds-usa-ski-jumping-sponsor-pin","title":"1992 Albertville Olympic Pin McDonald's USA Ski Jumping Sponsor Pin","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn official McDonald's USA sponsor pin from the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics in France. A gold-tone ski jumper soars over snowy mountains under the \"ALBERTVILLE '92\" banner, above bold gold \"USA\" letters on red enamel, the Olympic rings, and the McDonald's Golden Arches at the base.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMcDonald's was an official sponsor of the U.S. Olympic team, and pins like this one carried the Golden Arches alongside the Olympic rings for the Winter Games.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYear: 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSponsor: McDonald's USA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSport: Ski jumping\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStyle: Enamel, gold tone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSize: approx. 5\/8\" x 1\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBack: Stamped \"36 USC 380 GROUP II INC MADE IN TAIWAN,\" single post with clutch back\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePackaging\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll orders shipped in corrugated box for extra protection, we don't use bubble mailers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eU.S. shipping is $4.95 flat per order, and free on orders of $35 or more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pinpal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67992850202912,"sku":"S5-29","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1021\/1252\/6624\/files\/s1_3833a5d4-b4d8-4088-b0f6-ab47d76e8b84.jpg?v=1793027944"},{"product_id":"1992-usa-olympic-team-sponsor-pin-oscar-mayer-ice-hockey-louis-rich","title":"1992 USA Olympic Team Sponsor Pin ~ Oscar Mayer ~ Ice Hockey ~ Louis Rich","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 1992 U.S. Olympic Team sponsor pin from Oscar Mayer, from the winter sports half of the series. A red enamel panel in a gold frame carries \"USA\" above the Olympic rings in gold, with a gold ice hockey player bent low over his stick, and \"OSCAR MAYER\" on a tan bar along the bottom. Gold tone metal, rectangular, with a single post and butterfly clutch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Oscar Mayer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oscar F. Mayer and his brother Gottfried opened Oscar Mayer as a retail meat market on Chicago's near north side in 1883, and on their first day they took in $59. They built it into a national meat company, and in 1936 it launched its most famous promotion, the Wienermobile, a hot dog on wheels that toured the streets of Chicago. The company moved its headquarters to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1957 and by the early 1960s was the leading U.S. maker of processed meats. It bought Claussen pickles in 1970 and the Louis Rich Company, an Iowa turkey processor, in 1979, and in 1988 it introduced Lunchables, its packaged \"lunch combinations.\" Oscar Mayer was bought by General Foods in 1981; General Foods was bought by Philip Morris in 1985, which added Kraft in 1988 and merged the two into Kraft General Foods in 1989 (renamed Kraft Foods in 1995).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn Olympic sponsor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oscar Mayer Foods and its Louis Rich turkey company were sponsors of the U.S. Olympic Committee in the run-up to the 1992 Games, and Oscar Mayer also issued pins marked \"Official Sponsor 1992 U.S. Olympic Team.\" The Oscar Mayer family of brands shared one matching series of USA Olympic sport pins, covering both summer and winter sports, each with an athlete on an enamel panel and a brand name on the bottom bar: Oscar Mayer, Louis Rich, Claussen, Lunch Combinations or Louis Kemp. This pin is part of the Oscar Mayer family USA Olympic sport series made for the 1992 U.S. Olympic Team.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Ice Hockey design:\u003c\/strong\u003e The player is shown in silhouette, knees bent and stick on the ice. Ice hockey first appeared at the Olympics at the 1920 Antwerp Summer Games, where the United States took silver behind Canada, and it has been played at every Winter Games since the first one at Chamonix in 1924. The U.S. won gold as the host nation twice, at Squaw Valley in 1960 and at Lake Placid in 1980, the upset over the Soviet Union remembered as the \"Miracle on Ice.\" The 1992 Winter Games were held in Albertville, France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe \"36 USC 380\" stamp:\u003c\/strong\u003e The back is stamped \"36 USC 380,\" the section of the U.S. Code created by the Amateur Sports Act of 1978. It gave the U.S. Olympic Committee the exclusive right in the United States to the Olympic rings and the word \"Olympic,\" so a company needed the USOC's permission to use them on merchandise. The stamp turns up on the backs of many licensed U.S. Olympic sponsor pins from the 1980s and 1990s. In 1998 the law was renumbered as 36 U.S.C. 220506, so the old \"380\" stamp is a sign of a pin made before then.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYear: 1992 U.S. Olympic Team\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSponsor: Oscar Mayer, U.S. Olympic Committee sponsor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeries: Oscar Mayer family USA Olympic sport series, summer and winter sports (Oscar Mayer, Louis Rich, Claussen, Lunch Combinations, Louis Kemp)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSport: Ice Hockey (Winter)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesign: \"USA\" and the Olympic rings above a gold ice hockey player with stick, \"OSCAR MAYER\" on the bottom bar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStyle: Red enamel panel, gold tone frame, rectangle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSize: approx. 5\/8\" x 1\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBack: Gold tone, stamped \"36 USC 380,\" single post with butterfly clutch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePackaging:\u003c\/strong\u003e All orders shipped in corrugated box for extra protection, we don't use bubble mailers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShipping:\u003c\/strong\u003e U.S. shipping is $4.95 flat per order, and free on orders of $35 or more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pinpal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68012480954656,"sku":"W374","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1021\/1252\/6624\/files\/s1_8fd799e5-938d-44b1-9a31-c75097a33f0a.jpg?v=1793105806"},{"product_id":"1992-usa-olympic-team-sponsor-pin-claussen-speed-skating-oscar-mayer","title":"1992 USA Olympic Team Sponsor Pin ~ Claussen ~ Speed Skating ~ Oscar Mayer","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 1992 U.S. Olympic Team sponsor pin from Claussen, the refrigerated pickle brand of Oscar Mayer, from the winter sports half of the series. A yellow enamel panel in a gold frame carries \"USA\" above the Olympic rings in gold, with a gold speed skater crouched low in a long gliding stride, and \"CLAUSSEN\" on a tan bar along the bottom. Gold tone metal, rectangular, with a single post and butterfly clutch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Claussen:\u003c\/strong\u003e Claussen started in Chicago in 1870, when Claus Claussen, a German-born vegetable farmer, was left with a crop of cucumbers he couldn't sell and pickled them instead. The family company, C. F. Claussen \u0026amp; Sons, made its pickles on that same South Side land for more than a century. In the 1960s Claus's great-grandson Ed Claussen spent about five years perfecting the refrigerated pickle, which is never heated, and that crunch became the brand's calling card. In 1970 Oscar Mayer bought the company and set out to turn the regional pickle into a national brand, opening a second plant in Fullerton, California, in 1974 and moving the original operation from Chicago to Woodstock, Illinois, in 1976. Claussen pickles are still made in Woodstock today, under Kraft Heinz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Oscar Mayer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oscar F. Mayer and his brother Gottfried opened Oscar Mayer as a meat market in Chicago in 1883. By the early 1960s it was the leading U.S. maker of processed meats, and in the 1970s it branched out by buying Claussen in 1970 and the Louis Rich turkey company in 1979. Oscar Mayer was bought by General Foods in 1981; General Foods was bought by Philip Morris in 1985, which added Kraft in 1988 and merged the two into Kraft General Foods in 1989 (renamed Kraft Foods in 1995). Claussen stayed part of Kraft's Oscar Mayer division.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn Olympic sponsor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oscar Mayer Foods and its Louis Rich turkey company were sponsors of the U.S. Olympic Committee in the run-up to the 1992 Games, and Oscar Mayer also issued pins marked \"Official Sponsor 1992 U.S. Olympic Team.\" The Oscar Mayer family of brands shared one matching series of USA Olympic sport pins, covering both summer and winter sports, each with an athlete on an enamel panel and a brand name on the bottom bar: Oscar Mayer, Louis Rich, Claussen, Lunch Combinations or Louis Kemp. This pin is part of the Oscar Mayer family USA Olympic sport series made for the 1992 U.S. Olympic Team.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Speed Skating design:\u003c\/strong\u003e The skater is bent forward at the waist, one leg pushing out behind in a long stride. Speed skating grew up on the frozen canals of Holland centuries ago, and it has been on the Olympic program at every Winter Games since the first one at Chamonix in 1924. Women first raced as a demonstration sport in 1932 and became full medal competitors at Squaw Valley in 1960. Americans have won more Olympic speed skating gold medals than every country except the Netherlands, and in 1980 at Lake Placid Eric Heiden won all five men's events. The 1992 Winter Games were held in Albertville, France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe \"36 USC 380\" stamp:\u003c\/strong\u003e The back is stamped \"36 USC 380,\" the section of the U.S. Code created by the Amateur Sports Act of 1978. It gave the U.S. Olympic Committee the exclusive right in the United States to the Olympic rings and the word \"Olympic,\" so a company needed the USOC's permission to use them on merchandise. The stamp turns up on the backs of many licensed U.S. Olympic sponsor pins from the 1980s and 1990s. In 1998 the law was renumbered as 36 U.S.C. 220506, so the old \"380\" stamp is a sign of a pin made before then.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYear: 1992 U.S. Olympic Team\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSponsor: Claussen (Oscar Mayer), Oscar Mayer family of brands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeries: Oscar Mayer family USA Olympic sport series, summer and winter sports (Oscar Mayer, Louis Rich, Claussen, Lunch Combinations, Louis Kemp)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSport: Speed Skating (Winter)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesign: \"USA\" and the Olympic rings above a gold speed skater in full stride, \"CLAUSSEN\" on the bottom bar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStyle: Yellow enamel panel, gold tone frame, rectangle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSize: approx. 5\/8\" x 1\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBack: Gold tone, stamped \"36 USC 380,\" single post with butterfly clutch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePackaging:\u003c\/strong\u003e All orders shipped in corrugated box for extra protection, we don't use bubble mailers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShipping:\u003c\/strong\u003e U.S. shipping is $4.95 flat per order, and free on orders of $35 or more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pinpal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68012523847968,"sku":"W376","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1021\/1252\/6624\/files\/s1_582ef886-6e6b-4f0a-8021-9571b10b62f5.jpg?v=1793106174"},{"product_id":"1992-usa-olympic-team-sponsor-pin-louis-kemp-figure-skating-oscar-mayer","title":"1992 USA Olympic Team Sponsor Pin ~ Louis Kemp ~ Figure Skating ~ Oscar Mayer","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 1992 U.S. Olympic Team sponsor pin from Louis Kemp, the Crab Delights seafood brand Oscar Mayer owned at the time, from the winter sports half of the series. A brown copper enamel panel in a gold frame carries \"USA\" above the Olympic rings in gold, with a gold figure skater gliding with both arms spread wide, and \"LOUIS KEMP\" on a tan bar along the bottom. Gold tone metal, rectangular, with a single post and butterfly clutch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Louis Kemp:\u003c\/strong\u003e Louis E. Kemp came from a family that had been in the wholesale and retail seafood business since 1930. In 1985 he started making surimi seafood, a low-fat product made from Alaska pollock and flavored like crab, and in January 1986 the company introduced Crab Delights and opened a processing plant in Duluth, Minnesota, with help from a city jobs loan. In March 1987 Kemp sold the business to Oscar Mayer Foods for $4 million. Oscar Mayer, which had done well with full-name brands like Oscar Mayer and Louis Rich, asked to use his name, and the company became the Louis Kemp Seafood Company. By 1992 it was the leading U.S. maker of packaged surimi crab and lobster, with plants in Duluth and Olympia, Washington, and its Crab Delights and Lobster Delights held 62 percent of the retail market. In August 1992 Oscar Mayer agreed to sell Louis Kemp Seafood to Tyson Foods; the brand later passed to Bumble Bee and, in 2006, to Trident Seafoods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Oscar Mayer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oscar F. Mayer and his brother Gottfried opened Oscar Mayer as a meat market in Chicago in 1883. By the early 1960s it was the leading U.S. maker of processed meats, and it went on to buy Claussen pickles in 1970, the Louis Rich turkey company in 1979 and Kemp's surimi seafood business in 1987. Oscar Mayer was bought by General Foods in 1981; General Foods was bought by Philip Morris in 1985, which added Kraft in 1988 and merged the two into Kraft General Foods in 1989 (renamed Kraft Foods in 1995). When this series was made, Oscar Mayer and Louis Kemp Seafood were both part of Kraft General Foods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn Olympic sponsor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oscar Mayer Foods and its Louis Rich turkey company were sponsors of the U.S. Olympic Committee in the run-up to the 1992 Games, and Oscar Mayer also issued pins marked \"Official Sponsor 1992 U.S. Olympic Team.\" The Oscar Mayer family of brands shared one matching series of USA Olympic sport pins, covering both summer and winter sports, each with an athlete on an enamel panel and a brand name on the bottom bar: Oscar Mayer, Louis Rich, Claussen, Lunch Combinations or Louis Kemp. This pin is part of the Oscar Mayer family USA Olympic sport series made for the 1992 U.S. Olympic Team.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Figure Skating design:\u003c\/strong\u003e The skater glides on one blade with both arms stretched out wide. Figure skating is the oldest sport on the Winter Olympic program: it was first contested at the London Summer Games of 1908, again at Antwerp in 1920, and has been part of every Winter Games since the first one at Chamonix in 1924. The United States has won more Olympic figure skating medals than any other country. At the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France, Kristi Yamaguchi won the women's gold for the USA, with teammate Nancy Kerrigan taking bronze.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe \"36 USC 380\" stamp:\u003c\/strong\u003e The back is stamped \"36 USC 380,\" the section of the U.S. Code created by the Amateur Sports Act of 1978. It gave the U.S. Olympic Committee the exclusive right in the United States to the Olympic rings and the word \"Olympic,\" so a company needed the USOC's permission to use them on merchandise. The stamp turns up on the backs of many licensed U.S. Olympic sponsor pins from the 1980s and 1990s. In 1998 the law was renumbered as 36 U.S.C. 220506, so the old \"380\" stamp is a sign of a pin made before then.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYear: 1992 U.S. Olympic Team\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSponsor: Louis Kemp Seafood (Oscar Mayer), Oscar Mayer family of brands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeries: Oscar Mayer family USA Olympic sport series, summer and winter sports (Oscar Mayer, Louis Rich, Claussen, Lunch Combinations, Louis Kemp)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSport: Figure Skating (Winter)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesign: \"USA\" and the Olympic rings above a gold figure skater with arms spread, \"LOUIS KEMP\" on the bottom bar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStyle: Brown copper enamel panel, gold tone frame, rectangle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSize: approx. 5\/8\" x 1\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBack: Gold tone, stamped \"36 USC 380,\" single post with butterfly clutch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePackaging:\u003c\/strong\u003e All orders shipped in corrugated box for extra protection, we don't use bubble mailers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShipping:\u003c\/strong\u003e U.S. shipping is $4.95 flat per order, and free on orders of $35 or more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Pinpal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68012552585504,"sku":"W373","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1021\/1252\/6624\/files\/s1_a298c615-6e99-4f40-b6ce-1587a96e57d4.jpg?v=1793106489"},{"product_id":"1992-usa-olympic-team-sponsor-pin-louis-kemp-ski-jumping-oscar-mayer","title":"1992 USA Olympic Team Sponsor Pin ~ Louis Kemp ~ Ski Jumping ~ Oscar Mayer","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 1992 U.S. Olympic Team sponsor pin from Louis Kemp, the Crab Delights seafood brand Oscar Mayer owned at the time, from the winter sports half of the series. A dark teal green enamel panel in a gold frame carries \"USA\" above the Olympic rings in gold, with a gold ski jumper in flight, body stretched out over parallel skis, and \"LOUIS KEMP\" on a tan bar along the bottom. Gold tone metal, rectangular, with a single post and butterfly clutch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Louis Kemp:\u003c\/strong\u003e Louis E. Kemp came from a family that had been in the wholesale and retail seafood business since 1930. In 1985 he started making surimi seafood, a low-fat product made from Alaska pollock and flavored like crab, and in January 1986 the company introduced Crab Delights and opened a processing plant in Duluth, Minnesota, with help from a city jobs loan. In March 1987 Kemp sold the business to Oscar Mayer Foods for $4 million. Oscar Mayer, which had done well with full-name brands like Oscar Mayer and Louis Rich, asked to use his name, and the company became the Louis Kemp Seafood Company. By 1992 it was the leading U.S. maker of packaged surimi crab and lobster, with plants in Duluth and Olympia, Washington, and its Crab Delights and Lobster Delights held 62 percent of the retail market. In August 1992 Oscar Mayer agreed to sell Louis Kemp Seafood to Tyson Foods; the brand later passed to Bumble Bee and, in 2006, to Trident Seafoods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Oscar Mayer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oscar F. Mayer and his brother Gottfried opened Oscar Mayer as a meat market in Chicago in 1883. By the early 1960s it was the leading U.S. maker of processed meats, and it went on to buy Claussen pickles in 1970, the Louis Rich turkey company in 1979 and Kemp's surimi seafood business in 1987. Oscar Mayer was bought by General Foods in 1981; General Foods was bought by Philip Morris in 1985, which added Kraft in 1988 and merged the two into Kraft General Foods in 1989 (renamed Kraft Foods in 1995). When this series was made, Oscar Mayer and Louis Kemp Seafood were both part of Kraft General Foods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn Olympic sponsor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oscar Mayer Foods and its Louis Rich turkey company were sponsors of the U.S. Olympic Committee in the run-up to the 1992 Games, and Oscar Mayer also issued pins marked \"Official Sponsor 1992 U.S. Olympic Team.\" The Oscar Mayer family of brands shared one matching series of USA Olympic sport pins, covering both summer and winter sports, each with an athlete on an enamel panel and a brand name on the bottom bar: Oscar Mayer, Louis Rich, Claussen, Lunch Combinations or Louis Kemp. This pin is part of the Oscar Mayer family USA Olympic sport series made for the 1992 U.S. Olympic Team.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Ski Jumping design:\u003c\/strong\u003e The jumper leans far forward over skis held side by side, the classic flying position. Ski jumping was pioneered in Norway by Sondre Norheim in the 1800s and has been on the Olympic program at every Winter Games since the first one at Chamonix in 1924. By the time of the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France, the newer V-style, with the ski tips spread apart in a fan shape for a longer flight, had taken over the sport. Its master at Albertville was Toni Nieminen of Finland, who at 16 won the large hill gold, plus team gold and a normal hill bronze, and remains the youngest man ever to win an individual Winter Olympic title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe \"36 USC 380\" stamp:\u003c\/strong\u003e The back is stamped \"36 USC 380,\" the section of the U.S. Code created by the Amateur Sports Act of 1978. It gave the U.S. Olympic Committee the exclusive right in the United States to the Olympic rings and the word \"Olympic,\" so a company needed the USOC's permission to use them on merchandise. The stamp turns up on the backs of many licensed U.S. Olympic sponsor pins from the 1980s and 1990s. In 1998 the law was renumbered as 36 U.S.C. 220506, so the old \"380\" stamp is a sign of a pin made before then.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYear: 1992 U.S. Olympic Team\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSponsor: Louis Kemp Seafood (Oscar Mayer), Oscar Mayer family of brands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeries: Oscar Mayer family USA Olympic sport series, summer and winter sports (Oscar Mayer, Louis Rich, Claussen, Lunch Combinations, Louis Kemp)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSport: Ski Jumping (Winter)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesign: \"USA\" and the Olympic rings above a gold ski jumper in flight on parallel skis, \"LOUIS KEMP\" on the bottom bar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStyle: Dark teal green enamel panel, gold tone frame, rectangle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSize: approx. 5\/8\" x 1\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBack: Gold tone, stamped \"36 USC 380,\" single post with butterfly clutch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePackaging:\u003c\/strong\u003e All orders shipped in corrugated box for extra protection, we don't use bubble mailers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShipping:\u003c\/strong\u003e U.S. shipping is $4.95 flat per order, and free on orders of $35 or more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Pinpal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68012559597856,"sku":"W375","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1021\/1252\/6624\/files\/s1_3b48c082-f90e-4919-97a1-40f2aadde1f5.jpg?v=1793106565"},{"product_id":"1992-usa-olympic-team-sponsor-pin-lunch-combinations-cross-country-skiing-oscar-mayer","title":"1992 USA Olympic Team Sponsor Pin ~ Lunch Combinations ~ Cross-Country Skiing ~ Oscar Mayer","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 1992 U.S. Olympic Team sponsor pin from Oscar Mayer's Lunch Combinations line, the packaged lunches better known as Lunchables, from the winter sports half of the series. A yellow enamel panel in a gold frame carries \"USA\" above the Olympic rings in gold, with a gold cross-country skier striding forward on his poles, and \"LUNCH COMBINATIONS\" on a tan bar along the bottom. Gold tone metal, rectangular, with a single post and butterfly clutch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Lunch Combinations and Lunchables:\u003c\/strong\u003e \"Lunch combinations\" was Oscar Mayer's own name for a new kind of product: sliced meat, cheese and crackers packed side by side in one tray, ready for a lunchbox. Oscar Mayer registered its trademark for \"lunch combinations consisting of crackers with meat and cheese or crackers with meat and poultry,\" with a first use date of September 1987, and sold them under the Lunchables name. The line was developed by an Oscar Mayer team led by Bob Drane, test-marketed in 1987 and introduced in 1988. By January 1990 Lunchables were already sold in about 70 percent of the U.S. market, and Oscar Mayer went to court that month to defend them against a rival lunch kit from Sara Lee. Lunchables became one of the best-selling products in Oscar Mayer's history and started the company's whole lunch combinations category; the packages still carry the words \"Lunch Combinations\" today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Oscar Mayer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oscar F. Mayer and his brother Gottfried opened Oscar Mayer as a meat market in Chicago in 1883. By the early 1960s it was the leading U.S. maker of processed meats, and it later added Claussen pickles (1970) and Louis Rich turkey (1979). Oscar Mayer was bought by General Foods in 1981; General Foods was bought by Philip Morris in 1985, which added Kraft in 1988 and merged the two into Kraft General Foods in 1989 (renamed Kraft Foods in 1995).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn Olympic sponsor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oscar Mayer Foods and its Louis Rich turkey company were sponsors of the U.S. Olympic Committee in the run-up to the 1992 Games, and Oscar Mayer also issued pins marked \"Official Sponsor 1992 U.S. Olympic Team.\" The Oscar Mayer family of brands shared one matching series of USA Olympic sport pins, covering both summer and winter sports, each with an athlete on an enamel panel and a brand name on the bottom bar: Oscar Mayer, Louis Rich, Claussen, Lunch Combinations or Louis Kemp. This pin is part of the Oscar Mayer family USA Olympic sport series made for the 1992 U.S. Olympic Team.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Cross-Country Skiing design:\u003c\/strong\u003e The skier leans into a long stride, one ski gliding ahead and both poles planted behind. Cross-country skiing was practiced in Scandinavia for centuries before it became a race, and it has been on the Olympic program at every Winter Games since the first one at Chamonix in 1924. Women first raced at the Olympics in a 10 km event at Oslo in 1952. At the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France, Norway's Bjørn Dæhlie won the men's 50 km and pursuit, and Norway took the men's relay, while Lyubov Yegorova of the Unified Team won the women's 15 km and pursuit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe \"36 USC 380\" stamp:\u003c\/strong\u003e The back is stamped \"36 USC 380,\" the section of the U.S. Code created by the Amateur Sports Act of 1978. It gave the U.S. Olympic Committee the exclusive right in the United States to the Olympic rings and the word \"Olympic,\" so a company needed the USOC's permission to use them on merchandise. The stamp turns up on the backs of many licensed U.S. Olympic sponsor pins from the 1980s and 1990s. In 1998 the law was renumbered as 36 U.S.C. 220506, so the old \"380\" stamp is a sign of a pin made before then.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYear: 1992 U.S. Olympic Team\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSponsor: Lunch Combinations (Oscar Mayer Lunchables), Oscar Mayer family of brands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeries: Oscar Mayer family USA Olympic sport series, summer and winter sports (Oscar Mayer, Louis Rich, Claussen, Lunch Combinations, Louis Kemp)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSport: Cross-Country Skiing (Winter)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesign: \"USA\" and the Olympic rings above a gold cross-country skier with poles, \"LUNCH COMBINATIONS\" on the bottom bar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStyle: Yellow enamel panel, gold tone frame, rectangle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSize: approx. 5\/8\" x 1\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBack: Gold tone, stamped \"36 USC 380,\" single post with butterfly clutch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePackaging:\u003c\/strong\u003e All orders shipped in corrugated box for extra protection, we don't use bubble mailers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShipping:\u003c\/strong\u003e U.S. shipping is $4.95 flat per order, and free on orders of $35 or more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pinpal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68012605833504,"sku":"W372","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1021\/1252\/6624\/files\/s1_6de1ab02-6087-4e04-a925-da18f2ac8e7a.jpg?v=1793106719"},{"product_id":"1992-usa-olympic-team-sponsor-pin-louis-rich-alpine-skiing-oscar-mayer","title":"1992 USA Olympic Team Sponsor Pin ~ Louis Rich ~ Alpine Skiing ~ Oscar Mayer","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 1992 U.S. Olympic Team sponsor pin from Louis Rich, the turkey brand of Oscar Mayer, from the winter sports half of the series. A green enamel panel in a gold frame carries \"USA\" above the Olympic rings in gold, with a gold alpine skier leaning hard into a turn, pole in hand, and \"LOUIS RICH\" on a tan bar along the bottom. Gold tone metal, rectangular, with a single post and butterfly clutch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Louis Rich and Oscar Mayer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Louis Rich began as a family poultry business. In 1943 Louis H. Rich bought a former tomato-canning plant in West Liberty, Iowa, to expand his Rock Island Produce Company. His sons Norman and Martin converted it to poultry processing in 1946 and, by 1949, were processing turkeys only. In 1979 Oscar Mayer bought Louis Rich, Inc., and Louis Rich became the turkey side of the famous meat company that Oscar F. Mayer and his brother Gottfried founded in Chicago in 1883. Oscar Mayer was bought by General Foods in 1981; General Foods was bought by Philip Morris in 1985, which added Kraft in 1988 and merged the two into Kraft General Foods in 1989 (renamed Kraft Foods in 1995). Louis Rich ran the West Liberty plant until 1996, when Kraft planned to close it and 47 Iowa turkey growers formed a cooperative, West Liberty Foods, to buy it and keep it running.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn Olympic sponsor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oscar Mayer Foods and its Louis Rich turkey company were sponsors of the U.S. Olympic Committee in the run-up to the 1992 Games, and Oscar Mayer also issued pins marked \"Official Sponsor 1992 U.S. Olympic Team.\" The Oscar Mayer family of brands shared one matching series of USA Olympic sport pins, covering both summer and winter sports, each with an athlete on an enamel panel and a brand name on the bottom bar: Oscar Mayer, Louis Rich, Claussen, Lunch Combinations or Louis Kemp. This pin is part of the Oscar Mayer family USA Olympic sport series made for the 1992 U.S. Olympic Team.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Alpine Skiing design:\u003c\/strong\u003e The skier is laid over in a carved turn, hip close to the snow and one pole out, the way racers take the gates in giant slalom. Alpine skiing came to the Olympics at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936, when the only race was a combined downhill and slalom, held for both men and women. Separate downhill and slalom races followed in 1948, the giant slalom in 1952 and the super-G in 1988. At the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France, Alberto Tomba of Italy won the men's giant slalom and Kjetil André Aamodt of Norway the men's super-G, while Americans Hilary Lindh took silver in the women's downhill and Diann Roffe shared silver in the women's giant slalom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe \"36 USC 380\" stamp:\u003c\/strong\u003e The back is stamped \"36 USC 380,\" the section of the U.S. Code created by the Amateur Sports Act of 1978. It gave the U.S. Olympic Committee the exclusive right in the United States to the Olympic rings and the word \"Olympic,\" so a company needed the USOC's permission to use them on merchandise. The stamp turns up on the backs of many licensed U.S. Olympic sponsor pins from the 1980s and 1990s. 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