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Captain Marvel #49(A) VF 8.0 $8 Captain Marvel #44(B) Fine 6.0 $6 Captain Marvel #43 VF 8.0 $8 Captain Marvel #41(A) VF- 7.5 $8 Take

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The 100-count is the most common, but always pricey. There are 50-counts and I've seen one example of a 25-count box as well, sporting the same label as seen above. There is an embossed and gilded Yellow Kid box as well, but it's very rare and all those gilded boxes are tough to find with all the gilding intact. Still, I wouldn't turn any of them down! Looking forward to seeing your examples, Yellow Kid!

"Pay up" is right, as you no doubt know you're up against the well-heeled sports crossover collectors. By far the most common baseball player you'll find on a box is Al Simmons, a brand that was made in Milwaukee for some forty years or so. Joe Tinker is probably the second most encountered box, but is by no means common. There is a Wagner and a Cap Anson, along with a few other examples that I saw in Barry Halper's collection, but they're very tough to track down. Generic Victorian scenes of baseball, like the box pictured below, are numerous but scarce and highly collectible. Cigar boxes differ from comics in that many boxes are either unique or maybe have at best two or three surviving examples. Action 1 and Detective 27 would be considered "plentiful" if they were cigar boxes!

The only Winnie Winkle boxes you see with any frequency are the 50/13's or just "50's" as they are usually termed because they contained 50 cigars in four rows of 13 (and one row of 11 usually with a dummy block). Yours is a "drop-front" 100, which naturally held 100 cigar boxes (also packed 13 per row) and the little paper-hinged drop-front that provided even more room for advertising copy. The 50 is the size most people think of when they think "cigar box." Your friend set you up with a cool example of a comic-themed box. Keep your fingers crossed she digs up a Buster Brown box next or even a Yellow Kid! (not mine, sadly!)

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