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Dan GanttThe idea that these are some sort of hoax trumped up years later seems extremely far-fetched to me. I've had the Cracker Jack Royer for far more than ten years. Apparently, the Old Judge Royer's have only recently surfaced. An oddly disjointed hoax, I'd think, at least in terms of timing. (And who would have done the research to find a real, old-time business to peg them to? Why not just make up a firm name?)
Also, Keith, I'm willing to bet that the Historical Society people did not say that Royer went out of business in 1910. My bet is that they're basing their information on census records, which show him in business at that location in 1910 but not in 1920. If this is the case, he well could have been at that location when the Cracker Jacks first appeared.
All in all, I found it a chuckle that Old Judge Royers appeared. I'd be fascinated to find an expert who could tell me how the Old Judge and Cracker Jack reprints for Royer were made.