Cracker Jack (R)
The Unauthorized Guide to Advertising Collectibles
Published on 4. November 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-7643-0643-3 (ISBN)
Description
Featuring over 1000 color photographs, this expansive guide to Cracker Jack covers all manner of company collectibles from advertising copy, books, catalogs, and crates to packages, premiums, photographs, and sales stimulators. The items detailed in this thorough work span the twentieth century from c. 1910 up through 1998. Values for the items shown are provided. Only the toys retrieved directly from Cracker Jack boxes are excluded here, covered by the author in a separate volume.
As if this were not enough, other product lines produced by F.W. Rueckheim and The Cracker Jack Company are also displayed and discussed, along with the candy-coated popcorn and peanut confections created by early competitors. Everyone who has ever opened a box of Cracker Jack will find something of interest inside this Cracker Jack of a book!
As if this were not enough, other product lines produced by F.W. Rueckheim and The Cracker Jack Company are also displayed and discussed, along with the candy-coated popcorn and peanut confections created by early competitors. Everyone who has ever opened a box of Cracker Jack will find something of interest inside this Cracker Jack of a book!
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Atglen
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
over 1000 color photos
Dimensions
Height: 282 mm
Width: 218 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
934 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7643-0643-3 (9780764306433)
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Person
Larry White and his wife Mary have been in the antiques business for over 15 years. Along with collecting and dealing in Cracker Jack prizes, Larry and Mary also deal in small early American primatives, doll clothing and accessories, cast iron banks, American glass cup plates, early lighting, quilts, and toys. Larry is also the author of another volume on this sweet subject, Cracker Jack Toys.