Posted By:
Frank WakefieldWell I don't think it was the caramel company that did the punching.
I think it was some merchant, somewhere. A store owner who was doing some sort of promotion on his own. I'm not aware of any sort of mail in thing going on with these cards.
A senior collector told me that back in the 50s he wrote Red Man about getting the Red Man Tobacco cards. They mailed him a full set. Really nice cards, in great shape. But Red Man had cut those coupons off before mailing them to him. Still, a full set for the cost of a letter, a good deal. Almost as good as mailing Cracker Jack a 25 cents to get that complete set of 176 back in 1915. Sometimes, when I look at an old silver dollar a relative gave me, a relative who'd have been in his late teens in 1915, wouldn't it have been nice if he'd converted that silver dollar to 4 sets of 1915 Cracker Jack cards, and then given me that...