New Wrapper on the Block
April 6th, 2010 | Published in New in the Gallery
My friend Andy sent me this scan last week; it’s a wrapper from a five-cent pack of 1961 Topps football cards. He asked if I could use it for my wrapper page. Sure thing, Andy–I cropped it and added it to the page this morning.
The five-cent wrapper features an illustration of a cloth emblem insert. I presume that these inserts were included in five-cent packs, but not in one-cent packs–a bonus for kids who splurged and spent a nickel. Somewhere along the line we started calling these inserts “flocked stickers.” Why? Just a guess, but I’d say some price guide writer needed a name for them, hadn’t seen a wrapper or a checklist, and decided to show off his vocabulary. See I is for Inserts for a description of the cloth emblems and a picture of one.
Thanks, Andy!
