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Posted By: Dan Gantt

I can add another odd log to the fire. I have had for years a Cracker Jack (of Gandil, if my memory serves me correctly) with a Royer stamped ad back. It is clearly not a contemporaneous Cracker Jack issue (having an odd surface sheen) and, indeed, appears to me to be a period reproduction of the front. The stamped back is otherwise blank. I have always guessed that Royer, perhaps in the early 20s, after Gandil had become infamous, had simply had the card reproduced as a giveaway advertising his business. The appearance of Royer ad Old Judge reprints seems consistent.