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Tom Boblittalways comes through in the end..............guess I need to search out that Sterling tin.........
I have about 25 tins total, about 2/3 are pink, 1/3 green. Just happened that way I guess because I don't think either color is particularly scarce. I have 7 of the 8 and I have dupes of 6 of the 7 that I already have. Only a single pink sterling though. About 5-6 Autosales and the rest are all Colgans.......
Of all the ones I have, I have but a single example that doesnt have printing on the outside rim of the lid (a pink Colgans). All others, green & pink, have the printing on the lid.
I picked up a fantastic billhead for Colgan's this weekend at a flea market in town here with both the pink & green tins pictured. Colgan's was selling boxes of the chips to someone in Tennessee. Was really glad to get it. I have a bunch of Colgans billheads, trade cards and other stuff but mostly for other products like Taffy Tolu.....
As was stated earier, I've combed antique malls & shops, flea markets and most every other type of venue around here for 20-25 years since I could drive and have NEVER picked up a single tin from them.
There has been but a single baseball card dealer in town that EVER had any Colgan's from a find and they were so chewed up you couldn't even hardly read them. Find THAT very odd.
With the three different types of Colgan's.........E254 SOTD, E270 Red & E270 Tin Tops, I begin to wonder if the E254's were in the 'Colgans' tins, and the two versions of E270's were maybe in the Autosales (Tin Tops maybe?) and Sterling (Reds maybe?).
I will post some photos of other Colgan's items in a second here.......