Instant $50 credit - Quick Net54 Sunday board game
 

OK......first one to answer this question correctly in this thread gets a one time, instant $50 credit on my for-sale website. I just looked and there are lots of cards for $50 or less. The rule is that you can only use it once and if the whole $50 isn't used you don't get the extra cash back. So if the card is $45 then that is it. You CAN combine cards to get to $50 or add a few dollars if one is more than $50, to get to the amount of the card. SO here ya go.....There will be a regular board game later on in the month but this is just for you Sunday morning viewers that care to think about cards....

In our beloved, but little talked about E223 set, what does G and B stand for?

Gilbert and Bacon?

Steven
 

According to my sources that is not the correct answer. You may try again if you like...:confused:

G & B Chewing Gum of NYC

Not sure what the G and B stand for, perhaps the B is for August Beck and the G is for Goodwins.

Best I could come up with

nope
 

sorry OBC.....I do have the name written down....and it's not the mfg August and Beck, of course....c'mon guys....although I will say for as long as I have been a type collector I only just found this out recently...It's not real easy....which will give a little time for a few more folks to play..

Is the "G" General Santa Anna and the "B" Battle of the Alamo?

Long shot but after reading this, and now I know entirely too much of the history of chewing gum, I'll take a wild guess...

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/He+Gav...p-a01611586079

I will take a shot with Goodwin & Beechnut....

Ron

not yet
 

Not yet guys.....good guesses.....

Gartle & Bibson :rolleyes:

Max
 

Almost....you got the first letter correct in each word. That is a nice start..

Goudey and Bowman (they split up later)

Mark
 

Very nice guess....but no banana......

For the record no one has guessed even one of the names yet. I will show/tell where I found the answer when the game is done...

With very low confidence, I'm GUESSING it is Giles and Bethel.

Is it possible that this is one of those impossibly rare bits of information that has yet to make it to the internet? Nice question Leon!

Damn. And Wolfram Alpha isn't available until tomorrow :(

How about Gossett & Bell?

(since Leon didn't appreciate my 7:30 dyslexic chardonnay reference)

Max

well
 

Max- hey, you are in their fighting it out. I have had a few private emails with how folks came up with their guesses too. Very clever.

Matt- I have a strong feeling this information is no where in cyberspace...or at least not searchable. Ya'll need to remember that one of my collecting niches is old hobby periodicals......I have many different series put out up to 50 yrs ago....

glove and ball

nice
 

"glove and ball" gum? nice but not quite...

Good Boy


sorry, not the correct answer (leon)

Gum and Biscuit?

not correct, sorry 'bout that (leon)

i was thinking...
 

I was thinking "Gum & Baseball" at first.

But I'm sure I'm nowhere near right!



sorry, not correct (leon)

Gum & baseball ?

Sorry You Where Faster

George & Bruce


sorry, not correct (leon)

Giles and Beeman ????

sorry not correct (leon)

Gum Brand


sorry, not correct (leon)

My guess
 

Gross & Beeman


sorry not correct (leon)

Patent Listing Oliver B and Charles G
JR


sorry, not correct (leon)

Garbage Bag

Give us a hint.....

"Gus" or Augusta & Beck?

Glee & Beeman?

Genealogical and Biographical

not so far....and a hint
 

NO answers are correct so far...here is a hint...

At least one of the words is associated with a color

John B Curtis is all I can come up with but I will keep looking

Green and Black

One more
 

Goodwin & Beeman

Gross and Buchner

Guava & Bistre

Gold and Beck

Goodwin Blue

Question??? With these cards looking the same as the Yum-Yums is Beck one of the words?

Green & Burke or Goowin & Browne.........? :)

Greene & Blackwell

Beeman Gold

Gossett & Brown

Greene & Browne

Gibson & Berkman?

Gossett & Brown

gum buffington

Gumby Black

Well I'm hungry so for now it's Good Bye ;-)

Is it Golden Belt....the former packaging & distributing company for the ATC?

Golden Baseball

hold the presses!!!!!
 

Hold the presses for a minute!!!! There is a judge's ruling coming within the next 7 minutes.

Gump and Berkett

an extension
 

the ruling is still being deliberated......a 5 minute to 10 minute extension is asked for and granted.

poll added please vote
 

I just added a 10 minute poll to this thread. Once those approx 10 minutes are up then a decision will be made on the rest of the contest

edited to add I am giving the poll until about 11:40am CST....the majority will win the decision and then we can resume the contest....

Piggybacking guess

Gold & Belt

How can you guess if you don't know? It's like encountering a stranger and trying to guess what his name is...this contest is too hard.:(

Barry

If you know, how can you guess? ;)

Gilbert & Brown

We have a winner for what G & B (E223) - stands for
 

We have a winner for what "G & B" (E223) - stands for


Based on the poll at 11:42 the vote was 8 to 10 in favor of there not needing to be the exact spelling. We have a winner. Jamie Hull guessed:

Greene & Blackwell


and the answer, according to the ACC, 1960 (last) update, page 107, is:

Green & Blackwell of N.Y.

Jamie - Congratulations and we can communicate through email for your winnings.

Thanks to all who played. Believe it or not it's not real easy to "stump the members" with "1" question. <!-- / message -->

Or Gilbert & Browne

Well, I have the 1953 ACC and could not find it there. Of course I usually can't find anything in the ACC catalog.:mad:

Joe

One question for J.Hull
 

One question for J.Hull

Did you find the answer in the ACC or some place else? You won regardless if you want to answer this question or not. That was pretty tough just to have in your head for trivia....:cool:?

edited to respond to jcmtiger- that is why I did reference the year and page of the ACC. I found out the hard way that they aren't all exactly the same.

Glee & Brown

one last thing
 

Maybe we should take a poll on how long people will continue guessing since the contest has been over? :D

I would like to continue guessing, if you don't mind.

Gum and Blew?

Green and Blew?
Ooops, the contest is over :(

Barry, I think Leon should have another contest to guess what flavor the G&B gum was.:D I'm going with Tutti Frutti.

Clint

Hi Leon. Sorry, I was out for a few hours.

Nope, didn't look at the ACC. I did a few searches online and found a newspaper article (the first one posted here). I figured they had the right initials, were from NY, and if they'd been enterprising enough to get up an illegal lottery scheme, well, then they'd be just the type of fellows to try inserting baseball cards a few years later.

When I saw I'd won, I went back to try to find the darn article. I stumbled on another article (the second one posted here), and it has the correct spelling of their names.

Both are from March 2, 1884. No. 1 from the New York Sun. No. 2 from the New York Daily Tribune.

Jamie

hey Jamie
 

I only get little red x's for your links. I would actually like to see them. Can you send them to me via email at leonl@flash.net ? We can talk more about your winnings too..nice thought process and thanks again

Hmmm. :(

Email sent.

So from the articles it's possible G&B were not manufacturers (at least in 1884) but instead were retailers or wholesalers.

Hey Jamie
 

I think, as in most other early sets, the mfg of the physical card was different than the distributor.

Jamie - the images are showing OK for me - what did you search by?

Green & Blacks