This colorful card
was issued by the Walter M. Lowney
Company of Montreal, as an insert premium in their brand of Cracker Jack
Popcorn in the Late 1940’s to early 1950’s (this is my personal speculation, based largely on the fact that Lowney also issues a
similar series that featured WW2
Airplanes in the late 40’s. The Walter
M. Lowney Company OF Montreal
was under contact with the Cracker Jack Company of Chicago in the United States
to Manufacture and sell Cracker Jack Popcorn in Canada. It is from a series of 48 cards entitled “Sport Yesterday and today” and are listed as series V410 in Burdick’s American Card
Catalogue. The Front of the Card
features a particular sport image depicting it’s historical beginnings, or it’s
modern version at the time. While the
back features a description of the sport. Also in small print on the back of each card
are the words “copyright applied
for” and “Litho in Canada”.
There are two different variations of this card series, one was issued with square corners and one with the rounded corners. This
card is a ROUND corner variation number 32 in the series and features POLO TODAY. The cards measures 3 inches by 2 ½ inches by approximately. The card does have some creasing. I have scanned
the card fairly large for you to be able to judge condition for yourself. THESE
CARDS WERE NEVER ISSUED IN THE U.S.A and are scarce. Due to the lower population in Canada
than in the US,
these cards were not issued in large
numbers in Canada.
(Because of this the majority of all Canadian none sports cards are far scarcer
than cards issued in the USA)
I will be trying to list
several EARLY TRADE & TYPE CARDS over the next few days (spread across
different categories), including
one or two that are unrecorded in any guide, that were put given away with
Tobacco, Caramel, Candy, Gum, Chocolate, Bread Coffee Tea Cereal and other
products, covering such diverse subjects as Native American Indians , Baseball
, Football, Boy Scouts, Ice Hockey, Golf, Presidents of the United States, NCAA
and IVY League Colleges and Universities and Circus themes. To view the
other cards I have up on ebay please click on the “View Sellers other
Items” Icon located on this page. It will take you directly to them.
Due to my work schedule and distance to the post office I am only able
to ship Monday Mornings. If I haven’t received
payment for an item by Sunday evening, the item will have to wait until
the next Monday to go out. Its unfortunate but unavoidable.
If this doesn’t work for you I respectfully ask that you do not bid
or buy. Thanks again.
This will be mailed from the USA.
Unfortunately Ebay’s Global Seller Program does not allow for combined
shipments on international order