Smith's Mello Mint (E105) Wrappers, Newspaper Ads, & Other Information

[CobbSpikedMe]

These are great. So little is known about these that this kind of thing is really neat. Any thoughts on whether the cards were folded to be placed in the packs or not?

[Bridwell]

Those are awesome. Thanks for sharing.

Any idea what year they are from?

[Bridwell]

I just did a search on Google and found the top one was a newspaper ad from October 1912.

[4815162342]

All of the ads are from 1912. The jar ad intrigues me the most. It looks like the jar contained gum packs...kinda.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by CobbSpikedMe

These are great. So little is known about these that this kind of thing is really neat. Any thoughts on whether the cards were folded to be placed in the packs or not?

Is it the E105 Mello Mints or the E106 cards that are commonly found with a vertical crease running down the middle of the card? If it is the E105's, then they quite possibly were folded to insert into that gum package shown.

Brian

[CobbSpikedMe]

It's definitely the mello mints with the crease. But there are so many that don't have the crease that makes me wonder if they were given away in another manner as well.

[4815162342]

A little more research on Smith's Mello Mint Gum and the Texas Gum Co. has yielded the following:

Texas Gum Co. factory in Temple, Texas


Federal court case between Texas Gum Co. and Autosales Gum & Chocolate Co. (owner of Colgan Gum Co.)



An article mentioning this patent infringement case



Also, thanks to an awesome board member I was able to acquire an original wrapper, which as you can see, matches the newspaper ads.

[t206blogcom]

Cool stuff Daryl!

[RCMcKenzie]

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Thanks for the research on this set. I used to collect it, and made it about halfway before I sold. I was later able to buy back the same Bemis example I had earlier.

[Leon]

Concerning wrappers, ads etc......I love this kind of stuff and have always collected things like these shown. Thanks so much for sharing and congrats on the pick ups, Daryl. Got this card raw about a dozen years ago.. It seems Lajoie is one the more common E105s, if any of them can really be called common.