T206 v Cracker Jack pricing

[yanksfan09]

Originally Posted by The Nasty Nati

I'm not super familiar with cracker jack's, but why are they (including both years) so rare?

Where there not a lot originally printed? Where they just not a popular set for kids to collect and cherish back then?

There were also likely far more smokers back then as opposed to kids eating caramel confections! Lots of kids even smoked back then. T206 also had numerous brands all using the same promotional cards. For a caramel set to have a much higher distribution of a set they would have had to collaborate with other caramel/candy companies and use the same cards as promo items also.

It's also possible I'd think that many sets like Cracker Jack could have only been distributed during the baseball seasons as opposed to all year long like some other sets (possibly T206)? Just speculation there, but there's countless variables that go into why X number of cards survive from any given set.