| The picture below shows larger port and starboard views of all (5) Matching Old Cracker Jack Pop Corn Confection Pot Metal or Lead Miniature Nautical Toy Prize Tugboats in this lot. These tug boats are not dated but all of them are old. The Cracker Jack prize ID numbers for these are: ZP-0021 and A-0029 from the 1930s, by The Cosmo Manufacturing Company of Chicago, Illinois. These are painted in silver, red, gray, blue, and black. 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. All five of these prizes for one price! The miniature tugboats measure about 1-5/16'' x 5/16'' x 1/2''. They appear to be in good to mint condition. The gray and the blue boats are missing the stack as pictured. |
