| The picture below shows larger views of both sides of all (5) Old Matching Cracker Jack Pop Corn Confection Miniature Pot Metal or Lead Toy Sedan Automobiles in this lot. These early car prizes are not dated but they are believed to be from the 1930s. These have several old Cracker Jack Company ID numbers including: Z-0639, ZP-037, and ZP-052. They were from the Cosmo Manufacturing Company of Chicago, Illinois. The Sedan cars are painted in blue, black, red, brown, and unpainted. The center red car is unfinished. It is still attached to the metal rod that it was molded on. 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. All three of these auto sedan prizes for one price! These miniature auto prizes each measure about 1'' x 3/8'' x 1/4''. They appear to range from good to excellent condition with paint wear as pictured. |
