What did I buy? Mays and mantle!!!

[AP34]

Bump for more information. Looking for anything I can use to get more
Info. I can’t find anything!!!

[Volod]

Originally Posted by AP34

Bump for more information. Looking for anything I can use to get more
Info. I can’t find anything!!!

What more do you need to know? If the contest entry forms only appeared on boxes sold at overseas military bases, there were likely relatively few entries returned. So, probably very few survived and yours may be rare. But, I don't think that means it has a great deal of value. Just my opinion.

[AP34]

Looking for a full panel, or the box they came on. More so specifics about what it is and where it specifically came from.

[AP34]

Just crazy to me there is no info anywhere

[whiteymet]

Can't help with info other than what you already have. But just so know yours is not unique see below.

Sorry photos are upside down don't know how to correct

[raulus]

Wish I could help. I’m a Mays collector, and I’ve never actually seen this piece before. So I think it’s fair to say that it’s not a common piece, potentially even a very rare piece.

In some ways, I would like to think that what we’ve all learned in this thread so far is not an insignificant amount of additional context and detail. So I’m actually somewhat pleased that we’ve all learned as much as we have.

Based on the tidbits that we can all glean from the actual item itself, along with a few extra details that have been provided here, that might be about all we’re going to be able to share. For better or worse, not many of us were there at that specific time and place to have much more to share with you, particularly around a relatively obscure piece like this.

Really wish we could help more, but if there’s more out there, its news to me. Hopefully I’m wrong, and someone out there has a treasure trove of additional information, insights, and context that they’ve just been compiling and getting ready to post for our collective edification.

[Volod]

Originally Posted by whiteymet

Can't help with info other than what you already have. But just so know yours is not unique see below.

Sorry photos are upside down don't know how to correct

Here ya go...

[AP34]

Thanks again Velod. Your research skills are amazing. Truly appreciate your help. So counting this one, and mine, I have seen 3 total copies of this.

[Volod]

Originally Posted by AP34

Thanks again Velod. Your research skills are amazing. Truly appreciate your help. So counting this one, and mine, I have seen 3 total copies of this.

Thanks, but your count should be two, not three: my post above was just to flip the two images that WhiteyMet had posted upside down. If you still want more into on the sweepstakes, I would suggest you go to the website of NewspaperArchive and search for old copies of The Stars and Stripes - probably from the spring to the fall of 1963. The box cutout you have mentions that more details would appear in ads placed in military papers. Unfortunately, the newspaper archive requires a subscription fee to do much at their website, and it seems that a normal word or phrase search would not include advertisements, so the only way to find them would be to read each issue. Good luck to you.