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ipdb.corporate_entity_name: IPDB Victory Games used
ipdb.notes: IPDB "Miss America '45" is a conversion of Chicago Coin's 1940 'All American'. See also Victory Games' 1943 'Miss America '44'. The 'Miss America' conversion kits from Victory were offered for sale from 1943 to 1946. In the picture we have seen of a backglass for the 1945 model (not shown here), it shows the year '45 after the name. We have no manufacturer date for this 1945 model because we have not found any old advertisements that identify this conversion kit specifically with the year '45 to know when it was first offered for sale. The last mention we have found for "Miss America '44" is in Victory Game's ad in Billboard 01/08/1944 p76. After that, the kit was advertised only as 'Miss America' in all of the Billboard issues that we could find, up through their last Billboard ad for this kit dated 10/05/1946 p123, when prices were raised for all of their kits from $9.50 each to $12.50 each. We don't know if this 1945 version was first produced in late 1944 or in early 1945. We assume for 1946 that the date on the backglass was updated again but we have not seen a backglass showing '46. used
corporate_entity: Flipcommons Catalog victory-games used
title: Flipcommons Catalog miss-america-45 used
name: Flipcommons Catalog Miss America '45 used
slug: Flipcommons Catalog miss-america-45 used