Colgan's Tins...............

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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

Richard, I believe I wrote that a couple years back on the forum. I still have not found a Red Border still in the package so I am unsure about what type of tin they were produced with. The Tin Tops were made with Autosales tins (I have found several still wih their original tins), however, as the Autosales tins are hardly rare (unlike the Tin Tops cards) the Autosales Co. may have continued to sell their product at the end without any cards at all--presumably just like they did before they began putting ball-players pictures into tins in 1909.

The rarest of all the tins is the Sterling Gum tins, I have owned onl a small handful of those but not currently. I seem to remember having a Mint Stirling tin along with at least 2 Violet ones. When I first started collecting Colgan's I didn't care much about the tins, and sold them whenever I got them, now I have a small collection of 15-20 of them (not one of which is a Sterling unfortunately). I'll add that Sterling is the company that produced the "Gold Tip Chewing Gum" that you see boxes of at nearly every antique show, I also believe they are the company that first marketed Dentyne as well. If I was to guess I would say Autosales came before Serling but it could just as easily be the other way around.

-Rhett