1915 Cracker Jack

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by CrackaJackKid

Nothing but glorified reprints.

...with an additional 32 subjects plus a handful of changed subjects between the two sets.


Here is a scan of six 1915 CJ's with the same player in a later Zeenut issue, just for the heck of it. The bottom four Cracker Jack cards wouldn't exist without the 'reprint'.

Brian

[Yoda]

Everybody loves Cracker Jacks and for all the right reasons. There are 2 cards that draw my attention: the Hal Chase, being a replacement card for Frank Chance, and Eddie Rousch, as it happens to be his RC. Any serious '15 CJ set should have these cards.

[jingram058]

Real Cracker Jack box with a baseball card inside. Okay it's not actual 1915. And not even 1915, more like 1918, since one side has Sailor Jack and his dog Bingo. I found a photo in a different thread of a complete box, made a repro box, made a repro copy of a real 1915 Cracker Jack baseball card (which were pretty flimsy, not card stock, more like cream colored paper), and packed in the fake card with real 2024 Cracker Jack. The real cards were just stuck into the boxes with the Cracker Jack loose, no paper wrapper or envelope. That's one way to tell the fakes from the real thing; there should be caramel or molasses stains on the card!

[CrackaJackKid]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

...with an additional 32 subjects plus a handful of changed subjects between the two sets.


Here is a scan of six 1915 CJ's with the same player in a later Zeenut issue, just for the heck of it. The bottom four Cracker Jack cards wouldn't exist without the 'reprint'.

Brian

Yank Yank, still glorified reprints IMO.