Early Topps Gum Box?

[aelefson]

Hi-

This is sort of off topic, but I was curious what folks think of the box pictured below. It appears to be an early Topps chewing gum box, but I did not know if it was something made recently or how old it is specifically. There were dozens of matchbooks stored in the box (none were related to Topps or baseball) and the top is long gone, but I thought the graphics were interesting. It appears to match the wrappers shown on Dave H's blog on Topps that are from the late 1930s and early 1940s. Any thoughts as to when this round box is from? Please feel free to show your other early (pre card) Topps items.

Alan

[cardinalcollector]

Nice piece Alan, I would guess early to mid forties. I've never seen it before. Looks legit to me. Randy

[sthoemke]

You should be able to date it here by the design of the gum wrappers:

https://books.google.com/books?id=ZU...%20gum&f=false

It looks earlier than the 1946 Counter Display shown.

[Griffins]

A similar one was offered a year or two ago, think it was Huggins and Scott but might have been REA

[aelefson]

Thanks guys! Anthony, you have a great memory. I found a similar one in both Lelands and Huggins and Scott. I wish mine still had the gum and outer box though.
Alan


http://lelands.com/bids/bidplace?itemid=82340
http://nov15.hugginsandscott.com/cgi....pl?lotno=1751

[mmcgruff]

I once owned one in the box complete with gum. Got mine from Josh Evans of Lelands some years ago. Even though it was full,I remember hearing it was rather common at the time.