| The picture below shows larger front and back views of the (2) Different Old Cracker Jack Pop Corn Confection Pot Metal or Lead Miniature Sports Toy Prize Football Lapel Stud Buttons in this lot. The Cracker Jack prize ID number for the football stud button is: ZP-0042 from 1940, by The Cosmo Manufacturing Company of Chicago, Illinois. The pennant with a football does not have an ID number. It is believed to be from the 1910s or 1920s. Both of these have a stud button on the back. The football has its original light brown paint, and the pennant flag has no 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. Both of these for one price! To judge the sizes, the miniature pennant flag button measures about 1-3/16'' x 5/8'' x 1/4''. They appear to be in excellent or better condition as pictured. |
