Cracker Jack had Gumball Prizes!
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:57 am
A real Cracker Jack surPRIZE! I always thought gumball toys just came from gumball machines, then I get this! Two of these three prize packages had a small opening just big enough to squeeze the two prizes out. The third is completely sealed and I want to leave it that way but I can plainly see a big-eared donkey on a string inside,very similar if not identical to the celluloid charms I've seen except I can't tell what material this one is made of. After receiving these I looked in Larry White's book and to my surprise, discovered that CJ did indeed have gumball prizes but I didn't see these particular shapes. Any comments or thoughts about these would be appreciated.
It seems to me that finding prizes in their original sleeves is a great way to know for certain that CJ did in fact issue a specific prize. It started me wondering if prizes can be dated based by the package (sleeve) they're in. These have fortunes printed on them like you find in a fortune cookie and are different than the sleeves currently being used. Can anyone tell me which sleeves were used and when? Also, did CJ issue any of those off-white, sometimes partly painted, charms with metal loops that I see so often?
It seems to me that finding prizes in their original sleeves is a great way to know for certain that CJ did in fact issue a specific prize. It started me wondering if prizes can be dated based by the package (sleeve) they're in. These have fortunes printed on them like you find in a fortune cookie and are different than the sleeves currently being used. Can anyone tell me which sleeves were used and when? Also, did CJ issue any of those off-white, sometimes partly painted, charms with metal loops that I see so often?