Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Strictly Fun Baseball candy boxes

In the 1960's, Phoenix Candy issued the Strictly Fun Candy & Toy Baseball Series boxes. each had humorus art and captions related to baseball. Illustration historian Leif Peng identifies the art as that of John Severin. The boxes had dashed lines on them so often kids would cut up the boxes and keep them as trading cards. It is a fun set to work on but pretty impossible to complete.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wonderful stuff, wow. But I am getting "photo unavailable" when I click on the first one ...

Dan Goodsell said...

should be working now

Anonymous said...

Dan, is the set complete at 8 boxes? Meaning 16 large cards and 16 narrow cards?