| The picture below shows larger left and right side views of the (4) Old Cracker Jack Pop Corn Confection Metal Toy Prize Roadster or Race Cars in this lot. The Cracker Jack prize ID number for these is unknown, but the maker is is believed to be the Tootsietoy Company of Chicago, Illinois. These cars have blue paint (#3), red paint (#3), yellow paint (no number), and Army green paint (no number). These do not have drivers inside. This version pictured (in silver) is also the same race car design that was used as a game piece in the Parker Brothers game of Monopoly. 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 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. These race car prizes measure about 1-3/16'' x 7/16'' x 5/16''. They appear to be in excellent to mint condition as pictured. |
