Cracker Jack®: The Unauthorized Guide to Advertising Collectibles

by Larry White

Overview

Featuring over 1000 color photographs, this expansive guide to Cracker Jack covers all manner of company collectibles from advertising copy, books, catalogs, and crates to packages, premiums, photographs, and sales stimulators. The items detailed in this thorough work span the twentieth century from c. 1910 up through 1998. Values for the items shown are provided. Only the toys retrieved directly from Cracker Jack boxes are excluded here, covered by the author in a separate volume. As if this were not enough, other product lines produced by F.W. Rueckheim and The Cracker Jack Company are also displayed and discussed, along with the candy-coated popcorn and peanut confections created by early competitors. Everyone who has ever opened a box of Cracker Jack will find something of interest inside this Cracker Jack of a book!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780764306433
Publisher:	Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date:	11/04/1998
Series:	A Schiffer Book for Collectors Ser.
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Larry White and his wife Mary have been in the antiques business for over 15 years. Along with collecting and dealing in Cracker Jack prizes, Larry and Mary also deal in small early American primatives, doll clothing and accessories, cast iron banks, American glass cup plates, early lighting, quilts, and toys. Larry is also the author of another volume on this sweet subject, Cracker Jack Toys.