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05-26-2021, 12:13 PM
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I was informed by a collector that General Gum Inc. issued a set of non-sport cards known in the hobby as "Trick Cards" that were also issued by O-Pee-Chee in the same era. They carry a R155 catalog designation, and the OPC are listed as V305. These have been dated to 1930 and circa 1933, depending on source. So the two companies had the same product released at least one other time.
The cards were issued with "Mystery Gum" here in the U.S. Here's what the cards looked like: https://auctions.vintagenonsports.co..._-LOT3507.aspx I could not see a street address on the wrapper--probably was none-- but a mailing envelope shows a different address from a little further north in Chicago, on Diversey Parkway. I do not see a connection with this address and Curtiss Candy, but I haven't yet looked for one.
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05-26-2021, 01:17 PM
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Nice find, Todd. The V305 and R155 sets certainly seem to show a pattern.
I read online about a Curtiss Candy factory worker that brought home different types of candy that were produced for distribution outside of the United States, things most Americans would have never heard of. Curtiss Candy likely had a reach far beyond what is common knowledge. As to the envelope that you mention, do you have a link or image? Here is where the Curtiss Candy General Offices were located...622 Diversey Parkway Last edited by oldeboo; 06-15-2021 at 06:06 PM.
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05-26-2021, 01:44 PM
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I found this in a thread from the Net54 non-sports forum, where the poster said he won (and showed) a group of several Trick cards in a lot that included this mailer:
 Looks like we have match. General office as opposed to the plants.
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Now watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal Won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President. Last edited by nolemmings; 05-26-2021 at 01:46 PM.
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05-26-2021, 03:50 PM
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Here is an unopened pack and box of several packs of Mystery Gum with the Magic Trick cards, from an REA auction:
 
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05-26-2021, 04:07 PM
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Hmmmmm 1 cent for Mystery Gum, maybe 1 cent for Baseball Gum wasn't a stretch.
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