The picture below shows larger views of both sides of this 1940 Cracker Jack Pop Corn Confection Parrot Bird on a Perch Pot Metal or Lead Toy Prize Figurine. The prize is not dated but it is from 1940. It is made of pot metal or lead, and it has a base with a design to stand up. It has a light silvered finish. The Cracker Jack prize ID number for this prize is: #ZP-0061, and it was from the Cosmo Manufacturing Company of Chicago, Illinols. Many of the early pot metal or lead prizes were manufactured by Dowst (Samuel Dowst), or the Tootsietoy Company of Chicago, Illinois, but there were other companies in the United States, and including ones from Japan and Germany prior to World War II as well. Some of these type prizes were made specifically for Cracker Jack, while others were made as small 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 late 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. This toy prize parrot figure measure about 1-5/16'' tall. It appears to be in mint condition, as pictured. |