Hoppy cards were sold in 1 cent and 5 cent packs. Maybe circa 1950.

I remember getting the Hoppys and Freedom's War in 2 card panels,
so they must have cost a nickel.

Remember, in the early 50s we were "spoiled", getting empty
glass soda bottles from family and neighbors - returning them
for pennies. They added up fast, so we COULD AFFORD nickel
packs of gum.

Yes, a far different time than the depression
era of the 30s and the war years of the 40s.

Yes, Gil, we also scoured the neighborhood for bottle discards.

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Small bottles were 2 cents and large bottles were a nickel if I remember right. A nickel went a long way too.

I checked the few I have & the earliest 1 I have is for the 1940 Lone Ranger series.

Mark's post made me go to The gallery......wow....

Not too many kids had a nickel pre WW2, but had after WW2. Milk Bottles had a 2 cent deposit also. There was also deposit on beer bottles. It was economical to return stuff in those days, very little thrown away, n no plastic bottles.
Strip cards, if I remember were five or ten together for a penny, no gum, sold loose. War gum were a penny for a card n slab of gum, almost as big as the card. I remember a kid in 1940 about 12, who had a load of cards in a draw, from early thirties on up, maybe it was Chris McCann. this was all in the Bronx Prior to WW2. As an aside There was a theater called the ART. 3 B Pictures, load of Cartoons, a serial Chapter, Sing-a-long n a free 52 page comic with half the front cover torn off. Usually a Blue Beetle. ALL FOR A DIME. Though after Pearl Harbor, a penny tax was put on by the U.S. Government. Ticket went up to 11 cents.
There were very few taxes in those days, no sales tax, no State or local income TAX. The Federal income Tax was very Low, n Social Security Tax, if I remember, was no more than 1 percent. But salaries were very low. 40 cents an hour for low paying jobs, if you could find one. Maybe everything is relative to the times. Hope this isn't boring

John,
What about Exhibits? Were they a penny too? I've seen the machines, but I can't remember what price was posted on the front. Pretty good sized card if they were 1 cent!

Finally, I can write about something definate.

As a child, at age 7-8, mom and dad took us to Asbury Park
for our birthdays. We were each given a roll of nickels.
I always got change and spent "all" my pennies on baseball
card exhibits at the BB penny machine. (one penny, one card)

We moved away in 1948, so I can date it as 1947-48.

Holy crap, Dan! That's 200 Exhibit Cards out a $2.00 nickle roll.


I know "we" didn't have that kind of money!

A penny each! I thought so. Wow, that would have been hard to resist. Except I always had a weakness for those stupid crane games. I probably would have blown my money on that thing hoping to get something I thought I really needed and missed out on those great Exhibits!

While coding a web page for Kis-Me Gum, I did some internet searches and
read that Kis-Me Gum, which goes way back to the early 1900s, did have
a 5 cent wrapper.

Maybe someday, future internet searches will provide a picture of it.

Hello to All ,

Not quite a wrapper but it's a kiss-me gum countertop jar from the early 1900's .



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Mark

In the Sport Americana guide there's a picture of a 5 cent box for Indian Gum.

Hello to All ,

Apologies for bumping up an old thread , i stumbled across this and was wondering if it might give an answer to Dans question .

I'm sure no cards were issued , but it's a 5c package and the largest .

Circa 1910 i'm led to believe .

From a Canadian perspective I can offer that in and around 1950 some 1¢ packages went to 2¢, an example is Hop-Along Cassidy and a couple of others but 5¢ packages were the main steam price for most part.

Bobby