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09-26-2006, 12:37 PM
Posted By: <b>dennis</b><p>ok, were they given to retailers to hand out with purchase? was there a package,containing card & candy?? does anyone know for sure or is there only speculation???

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09-26-2006, 01:41 PM
Posted By: <b>T206Collector</b><p>...but I would speculate that the use was the same for caramel as for cigarettes, i.e., to provide a cardboard backing to a foil/wax/paper wrapped piece of candy. <br /><br />For certain the candy was often sold up against the card, which is why so many caramel cards have caramel staining on them. <br /><br />But I'm sure the E crowd knows best on this score.

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09-26-2006, 01:44 PM
Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>Cracker Jack cards were prizes in the boxes the first year; were mail in too the second year along with in the box. The west coast candy cards had the cards inside the wrappers on the candy. The others, I don't know. I speculate that the cards were placed on the candy owing to the number of stained cards.

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09-26-2006, 06:04 PM
Posted By: <b>Scott Gross</b><p>It kind of blows my mind that "we" don't know how a caramel card was packaged. I mean, it was ONLY 90-100 years ago. Generation-wise, that's not too long ago. My example is my maternal grandfather was born in 1896. So in 1909-11 he was of the age of probably buying both cigarettes and caramel's. He was from Philadelphia, were most of the caramels originated, and was a big sportsman. He died in 1975 when I was 15. I was old enough to collect e-cards, but didn't. I just can't believe someone, somewhere, at sometime didn't own a e-card in the 1970's, who didn't go up to a 70-80 year old guy (or gal), and say: "Hey, remember these cards ??" And get everything you would like to know about them. Maybe it's just me.<br /><br />Also, I would almost argue that the was something (paper, wax-paper) between the caramel and the card. Sure there are cards with caramel stains, but most (in my experience) do NOT have caramel stains.<br /><br />And, what about those #%@&* strip cards. They're cut or ripped to shreds, but hardly do you see a crease. I own a intact five card with no creases and have seen 10,12,20 card intact sheets with NO creases. Didn't they have to fold them to package them ???!!!!????<br /><br />Oh, and another unanswerable:<br /><br />"One, two, three, four ... Who are we for ?? .... Rutgers ... Rutgers .... Yeah" -- Mr. Magoo<br /><br />Not everyone in America could speak his mind:<br /><br /><img src="http://prcc.rutgers.edu/images/robeson-football.jpg"><br /><br />Robeson of Rutgers<br />

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09-26-2006, 06:35 PM
Posted By: <b>Patrick McMenemy</b><p>If I were a betting man, my quess is that it is highly probable that as a youngster opened his candy and admired the baseball player card that there is a strong likelyhood that the caramel was transfered from their hand(s)to the card.<br /><br />Patrick

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09-26-2006, 08:17 PM
Posted By: <b>Brian</b><p>I have wondered about this myself. The fact that many CJs lack egregious caramel stains suggests to me that there must have been a wrapper, and that a kid with sticky fingers just ruined the cards..... But if there were wrappers on CJ cards, why have they never surfaced on eBay (at least I have never seen one)?

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09-26-2006, 08:45 PM
Posted By: <b>Paul Kaufman</b><p>I have no proof of this, but I always have envisioned something like the modern day Sugar Daddy's, with a small slab of caramel, perhaps on a stick, with the card wrapped with the caramel inside a paper or wax paper wrapper.

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09-26-2006, 09:10 PM
Posted By: <b>Seth B.</b><p>Some cards, like Mello Mints, have distinctive creases that would suggest that they were included with some candy. I would still love to know if they shoved E92 Croft's into those cocoa bottles...

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09-26-2006, 09:45 PM
Posted By: <b>robert a</b><p>Many caramels exhibit staining that suggests the cards were packaged with direct contact to the candy. <br /><br />I believe that some packages were messier than others. Perhaps they were exposed to a bit more heat.<br /><br />Any any rate, you can see blotches on particular issues that look like individual smaller pieces of candy melted onto the cards.<br /><br />I don't believe E90-1, E90-2, and E90-3 were packaged with direct contact to the candy.<br /><br />E95, E96, E94, and E98 were packaged with candy. <br />E98's are often found with bright red/orange colored stains on them, rather than brown, caramel stains. <br /><br />I believe that many issues that were packaged directly with candy were inserted so that the candy would mainly touch the back of the cards.<br /><br /><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/caramelcard/e95/icons/e95plank.jpg"> <img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/caramelcard/assortedcaramels/icons/e107davis.jpg">