| The picture below shows a larger port and starboard side views of the (2) Matching Old Cracker Jack Pop Corn Confection Pot Metal or Lead Miniature Nautical Toy Prize Boats in this lot. These boats are not dated but they are old. The Cracker Jack prize ID number for these boats are unknown at this time. They are both marked “JAPAN” but the manufacturer is unknown. They are made of lead or pot metal and one has its original celluloid roof and the other does not. 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. Both of these prizes for one price! The boats each measure about 1-1/4'' x 3/8'' x 1/2''. Besides the one missing roof, they appear to be in mint condition as pictured. |
