Convention regular harriet joyce was called the queen of cracker. Cracker jack prize collector larry white, at left, shows off his collection and says theres a kernel of truth that the snack should keep plastic prizes, above. Cracker jack show n tell is a favorite game that is played at convention. Doll clothing l toys l cracker jack prizes l american glass cup plates l doll house miniatures. So, of course, each card that found its way into the cracker jack boxes was subjected to a host of condition obstacles. Cracker jack is an american brand of snack food consisting of molassesflavored, caramelcoated popcorn and peanuts, well known for being packaged with a prize of trivial value inside. Collectors all over the country look for the red, white, and blue package with sailor. The cracker jack name and slogan, the more you eat the more you want, were registered in 1896. Where did the term cracker meaning white folks originate.
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Larry white, who wrote two collectors guides to the books, has many toys for viewing and sale on his website, with his most valuable cracker jack prize. Cracker jack was promoted as the ideal wartime food that could be eaten as a breakfast cereal or as an afternoon tissuebuilding, musclemaking energizer. Includes a listing by decade of cracker jack prizes dating back to 1910 and continuing to the 1990s. In 1915, cracker jack continued planting shoeless joes, ty cobbs, christy mathewsons and the like inside their boxes, but they also offered the public an opportunity to acquire a complete set with an accompanying album, in exchange for coupons, to house the cards that avoided the minefield of sugar. I will be listing several vintage cracker jack toys and will be happy to combine shipping. The doll is pictured in larry whites cracker jack book, as well as other cracker jack books. Comprehensive in scope, toys from the late nineteenth century on up to the 1990s are recorded, representing a major contribution to the expanding cracker jack collecting field. Martha stewart invites larry white, author of cracker jack toys, to discuss the early days of cracker jack and the accompanying toys. Best resources for researching cracker jack prizes the art is.
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