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1947 Kagome Toys Special カゴメ玩具特製
Western Movie Bromide Cards 西部劇プロマイド
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Kagome Toys' movie cards special issue made in 1947 in Occupied Japan. Due to the emergency timing of this issue, the cards were roughly printed and crudely cut shortly after World War II in Occupied Japan. These menko cards are blank-back. Those being offered are "pack fresh" (near mint to mint) from the Kagome "taba" (hanging bundle) we opened decades ago. That taba is shown in the initial scans.

The taba is labeled with Japanese characters only, using both kanji and katakana. The characters on front read 西部劇プロマイド ("seibu geki buromaido"), which roughly translates as "Western Movie Bromides."

The taba back shows Kagome's logo, a star with カゴメ (Kagome) inside and 玩具 (omoucha, i.e. "Toys") below. We note that many in the United States misread the Japanese phrase "玩具" character-by-character as two separate words ("gan" ("玩") and "gu" ("具")). The Japanese read them together as the phrase "omoucha" ("玩具"). At the sides of the logo are the Kanji characters 特 and 製 which combined form the word 特製 (tokusei) which translates to "Special." The Japanese on the back of the taba thus translates as "Kagome Toys Special."

Each card is approximately 44 x 66 mm in size. When immediately put these movie cards into card protectors when we opened taba packs. These menko have remained there since.

The movies pictured date this special Kagome issue to 1947. The newest movie pictured is "My Darling Clementine," the 1946 American movie starring Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp. "My Darling Clementine" was released in Japan on August 12, 1947.

Get a quantity discount and save on shipping costs by buying more than one within a day. We'll consolidating all the cards together and charge only the single card shipping rate for the entire package regardless of the number of cards inside. To get the savings, buy one menko with normal shipping, then buy any other menkos for "Local Pickup" (it's free, no shipping charge). If eBay's automated billing system charges you more, send us an eBay message and we'll fix it. We have several ways to adjust an invoice. And, we can issue a refund on any overcharge you pay eBay. We don't prefer the refund method because there's always a possibility that eBay or PayPal could charge you a nominal fee on the refund.

Free local pickup at a mutually agreeable time in Oakland, California, or we ship by U.S. Postal Service with USPS Tracking by the close of the next postal business day from payment. Shipping includes full value insurance. We can often combine our other items purchased the same day into the same package with items from this lot to save you additional shipping costs.

NOTICE: Since insurance covers only the goods but not the costs of shipping them, the buyer agrees that once we have proof of delivery of the package to the post office (which is usually the postal receipt we receive from the postal window clerk at the time of mailing), that if the package or its contents is lost in the mails and not delivered or is damaged in shipping that any refund is limited to the purchase price and any sales tax (if applicable) and does not include a refund of the shipping or insurance. For international buyers, we label our customs tags as "merchandise" and you are responsible for all customs, duties or other import fees into your country.