Which Card Sets Should be Re-Classified?

[btcarfagno]

Originally Posted by jerrys

Sponsor's advertisements are printed on all insert cards; the reason for the extra expense of the premium.

The newly credited sponsor, H D Smith & Co. Gum, have no advertising on the Scrapps. (?)

Large thin card - thin gum. Packaged together - boxed?

I'm still looking for an 1888 Green and Blackwell Co. Gum (E223) Card Package - I've added to that an HDS Gum (Scrapps) package. Doubt their existence.

HDS is definitive.

I owned several uncut pairs that had tabs on them with HDS name. Consigned to Al at LOTG and he did the legwork that solved the mystery.

Tom C

[HasselhoffsCheeseburger]

To expand on what Leon said, W575-2 has absolutely no connection to W575-1 and is its own stand-alone release. On top of that whole not-being-a-W thing.

W502 isn't a W set either.

[jerrys]

Yes Tom, I'm aware of these pairs from Al's auction and the results of the research:

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There is an expense in producing, packaging and distributing cards. A sponsor's reason for absorbing this cost is to influence people to remain or become customers. Scrapps carry no message - no advertisement - no reminder of where the cards originated. This is still a part of the mystery missing from the story. All other insert cards bear a printed sponsor's ad. That is why I included a (?).

I shared my believe that neither of the PACKAGING that united the product and the card in each case existed - never disagreed with the HDS.

[OldOriole]

Just reviving this thread to see if there are an additional opinions. Thanks!

[Leon]

Originally Posted by OldOriole

Just reviving this thread to see if there are an additional opinions. Thanks!

Apparently not
You could probably throw W575-2 in there. How many of those "strips" have we seen?

[Joe_G.]

Copying a snippet from Al's (LOTG) research; RE: Origin of Scrapps.

In the Commercial Supplement to Leslie’s magazine, dated October 27, 1888, in a section about Cincinnati businesses, we took note of the following paragraph:

“Prominent among our Cincinnati industries is to be found the well and favorably-known house of HD Smith & Co., manufacturers of confectionery and chewing-gum, making a specialty of the latter. Their goods are known and sold from Maine to California. Among their large variety, the brands “Red Riding Hood,” “Crystal Palace,” “Beauty,” “Cough,” “Excelsior,” and “Ylang Ylang” are the most prominent, and which the trade at large are familiar with. A novel production of theirs this season is the St. Louis and Detroit Champion Baseball Gum – a piece of gum with a perfect lithograph picture of one of the champion nine of the National League or American Association on each piece. The pictures were made to order in Germany, and are wonders in their way. Their “Beauty” gum (with mirror attached) commands a large sale the country over. H. D. Smith & Co. believe in and make only pure goods, and at all times are alive to the wants of the trade in their line.”