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Here's some info on the pennants:
During baseball’s heyday, you could find pins and pennants of the game’s stars courtesy of American Nut & Chocolate Co. The pins and pennants weren’t the only products made by American Nut & Chocolate, which opened for business in 1927. Perhaps the company is best known for its roasted peanuts, cashews and other nuts. One of the local favorites, and certainly its most upscale, has to be the company’s “Harvard brand” cashews sold in 5-cent glassine bags. Produced close to the shadow of Boston’s prestigious Ivy League center of learning, the cashews were identified as “the educated nut.”Back when Boston was one of the nation’s candy-making centers, one confection company sweetened things for fans and collectors by producing some unusual baseball pins and pennants. It was during the middle of the 20th century when the American Nut & Chocolate Co. packaged small team pins and miniature team pennants in boxes of its candy. Later, the company offered another special treat with a series of small pennants featuring images of some of the era’s star players. The pins and pennants – plus a wrapped piece of candy – were packaged in cardboard boxes, one of each per box. Full sets include 16 pins and 16 pennants, the number of Major League teams at that time – eight in the American and the same number in the National. The company labeled the boxes and contents “Double Play,” seemingly ignoring the fact that a cross-city rival named Gum Products Inc. had used the same name in 1941 for a set of baseball cards. The “Double Play” name was especially meaningful for the cards, which had images of two baseball players side-by-side on each of the set’s 75 cards. For American Nut & Chocolate, the name likely indicated that each box had a double helping of prizes. Red was the dominant color on the candy boxes, which hyped the contents (one pin, one pennant and one piece of candy, all with a net weight of 3/8 ounce). It also listed the ingredients of the small, wrapped chunks of sweetness: sugar, corn syrup, molasses, salt, true and artificial flavors, U.S. Govt. food colors, cocoa, edible oil and wheat flour. Tasty? There were two types of boxes. The design for both featured discs that mirror the images of the team logo pins. On one type, the discs were perforated and could be removed from the boxes, while others were not. Some collectors claim the cardboard discs are now scarcer than the pins they promote and, thus, more valuable. Prominent on boxes are images that are samples of a pin (Pirates) and a pennant (Yankees). Blue-and-white counter displays, designed for retail outlets, contained 32 of the candy boxes. The displays were dominated by a drawing of a player sliding into a base and revealed that the price for each candy box was only 5 cents. The 16 teams in the Major Leagues of the 1940s are all represented, and their logos are the focus of both the pinback buttons and the mini-pennants. The pins, measuring about 1-1/8 inches in diameter, are lithos on thin sheet metal and they tend to scratch over time. The felt mini-pennants are about 4 inches long, and there were variations in both color and design over what appears to be four years of production.
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