| The picture below shows larger front and back views of this Rare Old Cracker Jack Pop Corn Confection Pot Metal or Lead Miniature Toy Prize Mutt & Jeff Comic Strip Character Lapel Stud Button. The lapel stud button has an image of the famous Mutt & Jeff comic strip or book characters posing in suits and hats. At the bottom it is marked “MUTT JEFF”. This prize has no ink or paint finish. Many of the pot metal or lead prizes were manufactured by the Tootsietoy Company of Chicago, Illinois. There were other companies, including from Japan prior to World War II. Some of these type prizes were made specifically for Cracker Jack, while others were made as novelties, bought in volume, and used as prizes by The Cracker Jack Company. Pot metal or lead prizes were some of the earliest prizes that were used in Cracker Jack boxes from the 1910s to the 1940s. Many of these type prizes or novelties were also sold out of old Johnson Smith & Company catalog as well as some other early novelty catalogs, also used in fortune telling sets, and some were also sold and used as board game parts. Many of these can be found factory painted, inked, or with no finish at all. The lapel stud button measures about 13/16'' x 1-1/8'' x 5/16''. It appears to be in near mint to mint condition as pictured. |
