| The picture below shows larger front and back views of this Old Cracker Jack Pop Corn Confection Miniature Pot Metal or Lead Toy Prize Cigarette Lighter. This lighter is not dated but it is old. We do not have a Cracker Jack ID number for this prize. The earliest prizes do not have one. It was made in “JAPAN”, but the maker is unknown. It is copper in color. This is not an actual working lighter. 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. This miniature cigarette lighter measures about 3/4'' x 7/8'' x 1/4''. It appears to be in mint condition as pictured. |
