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Posted 1 year ago
TGBWC
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The Coca-Cola Company starting selling Coca-Cola Chewing Gum beginning in March of 1903. Soon afterwards, small black and white ads began showing up in only a few publications, mainly Everybody's Magazine. Today, very few ads exist.
That's why I was puzzled when I was the high bidder earlier this week, on three small Coca-Cola gum ads...and still intact in the actual magazine pages. These are book-valued at around $50-$60 each. Like I said, I was high bidder (around $25) for all three. These ads are from 1904 and 1905.
I plan on framing the entire page, then adding a velum paper overlay and cutting out the area where the ad is, so you'll still see the entire ad but the gum ads will be highlighted. I'll post photos of the framed ads when finished, so you'll understand better what I mean.
Thanks for viewing. More to come....
Ray
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Great Snag Ray.
I need to update my ebay new listing reminders, LOL I'm always scouring the antique stores for old papers with gum ads.
Cool ads Ray quick question about the price of gum tho. Do you get four packs of gum for 20cents back than or was it four sticks of gum (1pack) for 20cents. Either way this gum seemed kind of pricey considering how old it is. Your still able to buy gum today for 5 or 10 cents, i thought this gum would have been under a penny lol
Uh...I think four packs for 20¢ means for packs, not sticks. And I believe there were five sticks to a pack, so you bought 20 sticks of gum for 20¢ A penny per stick. (And if you can find one complete stick of gum in the wrapper today, it's worth about $2,000.) A few years ago, I received a call from an elder lady from Alabama, who's husband recently passed away. She told me that he husband was an antique collector and had a huge barn on their property, loaded with vending machines, old bikes, cash registers, barber chairs, metal lunch boxes, tin and porcelain signs...and so much more. But what really got my attention was when she told me that he also had two sticks of Coca-Cola Pepsin gum! Immediately, a fellow picker and myself took a drive to see her collection. We bought a ton of stuff...but never found the gum sticks. She said they might be in their bedroom, in his private items but she was too emotionally depressed about his untimely death to even look through his stuff.
That reminds me, I need to contact her again. Maybe this time I might have better luck. Gotta go call her right now.....
Tell Hilda "hi" for me and let her know I'll be over first thing in the morning.
Hand motions over head like airplane going over my head; who's Hilda?
Oh, sorry. I must be thinking of a different elderly lady from Alabama! :)