The pictures show views of this Complete 1950s Wheaties Cereal Record Box With Mail Away Premium Records. The first three pictures show all sides and ends of the cereal box. The last two pictures show the front and back of the records and the mailer envelope that are included in this lot. The box is not dated but the Betty Crocker premium spoon and cook book on the side expires on April 15th, 1958. The box front has an uncut phonograph record. These records turn up every now and then but not usually uncut on the box. The title of the record is ''SPARROW IN THE TREE TOP''. It has a square cellophane covering. It states that there are different records on other Wheaties packages. The bottom flaps also advertises the cut out records. One side of the box has a mail away premium offer from Betty Crocker. It has a coupon to save towards either a a spoon in ''Queen Bess Pattern in Tudor Plate by Oneida Community Silversmiths'' or a ''Betty Crocker Picture Cook Book''. Also on that side there is some nutrition information about Wheaties. The cereal box back, side, and top advertises a Wheaties mail away premium offer for ''Red Records''. There are four sets of records pictured and offered for 25c and one box top. This lot includes the first two record set that is offered on the box. It is titled ''8 FOLK SONGS''. Included is the mailer sleeve and the two red vinyl 78 rpm records. The records had been mailed to a Somerville, Massachusetts address. The sleeve also advertises all of the records as well. The first set of records is included with this lot. For reference, the complete set of records consisted of eight records with the following songs: FOLK & SEA SONGS ALBUM Clementine Turkey in the Straw Rock Candy Mountain Blue Tail Fly On Top of Old Smokey Sailing, Sailing and Sailor's Hornpipe Blow the Man Down My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean PLAYTIME TUNES ALBUM An Apple for the Teacher The Sly Old Gentleman from Feather Bed Lane The Doughnut Song Playmates Who'll Tie a Bell on the Old Cat's Tail Kalamazoo to Timbuctoo Spacie, the Runaway Robot The Roly Poly Man in the Moon POPULAR SONGS ALBUM Music Goes 'Round and Round' Three Little Fishes Walking to Missouri Feet Up (Pat Him on the Popo) Glow Worm Sparrow in the Tree Top Rhythm in my Nursery Rhymes Chickery Chick Tra La Tra Le OLD FAVORITES ALBUM Pony Boy Polly Wolly Doodle Take Me Out to the Ball Game Come to the Barn Dance I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy You're a Grand Old Flag Dixie Lavender Blue To judge the sizes the 12 ounce cereal box measures 7-5/8'' x 10'' x 2-1/2''. The box is complete and in good condition with some over all soiling as pictured. The records appear to be in very good to excellent condition. One of the record appears to have cracks in the picture but these are not cracks. They are from the molding of the plastic. The record mailer sleeve has some writing and over all wear and tear as pictured. |