| The picture below shows larger front and back views of this Old Cracker Jack Pop Corn Confection Advertising Pot Metal or Lead Toy Prize Sailor Jack Lapel Stud Button. This Cracker Jack prize does not have an ID number, but it is from the early 1920s. The oval lapel stud button has an image of the earliest Sailor Jack and his dog Bingo (1916 – early 1920s), and it reads “ME FOR CRACKER JACK”. Needless to say, it is the most desirable of all Cracker Jack lapel stud buttons. 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. The lapel stud button measures about 13/16'' x 1-1/16'' x 1/4''. It appears to be in near mint to mint condition as pictured. |
