The Button Gum connection is interesting as in pertains to General Gum and what has widely been referred to as Cracker Jack pins. A box topper pops up years later and all of a sudden the whole story of an item changes. Great sources in the hobby have been wrong from time to time due to simply not having enough information.
There are newspaper ads for General Gum products like "Funnies", "Button Gum", and "Movie Gum"? That would certainly say something about the marketing campaign of General Gum if all of those existed. It would be interesting to see those.
The seller does have a few letters listed from the Yankees that originated from the 1920's and appear to be genuine. Obviously there is no direct connection, but they could speak for storage conditions if they were in the same collection for many years. They are not in the greatest condition and exhibit staining as well. Of course different types of paper age in different ways, so even in similar storage conditions they won't look exactly the same. Does anyone believe that these items below could have been stored in a similar environment in the same collection for many years?
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