What did I buy? Mays and mantle!!!

whiteymet · #1 10-30-2022, 11:32 AM

Can't help with info other than what you already have. But just so know yours is not unique see below.

Sorry photos are upside down don't know how to correct

raulus · #2 10-30-2022, 03:03 PM

Wish I could help. I�m a Mays collector, and I�ve never actually seen this piece before. So I think it�s fair to say that it�s not a common piece, potentially even a very rare piece.

In some ways, I would like to think that what we�ve all learned in this thread so far is not an insignificant amount of additional context and detail. So I�m actually somewhat pleased that we�ve all learned as much as we have.

Based on the tidbits that we can all glean from the actual item itself, along with a few extra details that have been provided here, that might be about all we�re going to be able to share. For better or worse, not many of us were there at that specific time and place to have much more to share with you, particularly around a relatively obscure piece like this.

Really wish we could help more, but if there�s more out there, its news to me. Hopefully I�m wrong, and someone out there has a treasure trove of additional information, insights, and context that they�ve just been compiling and getting ready to post for our collective edification.

Volod · #3 10-30-2022, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by whiteymet

Can't help with info other than what you already have. But just so know yours is not unique see below.

Sorry photos are upside down don't know how to correct

Here ya go...

AP34 · #4 10-30-2022, 07:17 PM

Thanks again Velod. Your research skills are amazing. Truly appreciate your help. So counting this one, and mine, I have seen 3 total copies of this.

Volod · #5 10-31-2022, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by AP34

Thanks again Velod. Your research skills are amazing. Truly appreciate your help. So counting this one, and mine, I have seen 3 total copies of this.

Thanks, but your count should be two, not three: my post above was just to flip the two images that WhiteyMet had posted upside down. If you still want more into on the sweepstakes, I would suggest you go to the website of NewspaperArchive and search for old copies of The Stars and Stripes - probably from the spring to the fall of 1963. The box cutout you have mentions that more details would appear in ads placed in military papers. Unfortunately, the newspaper archive requires a subscription fee to do much at their website, and it seems that a normal word or phrase search would not include advertisements, so the only way to find them would be to read each issue. Good luck to you.

AP34 · #6 11-29-2022, 06:54 PM

Update!!!!

Took the advice of Volod, and researched through a newspaper archive. I found this newspaper advertisement with a similar contest. It provides details of contest as well as how to enter and what products it was found with!

Thanks all for your help.

ALBB · #7 11-30-2022, 07:12 AM

very impressive " detective work " by you guys !

Volod · #8 11-30-2022, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by AP34

Update!!!!

Took the advice of Volod, and researched through a newspaper archive. I found this newspaper advertisement with a similar contest. It provides details of contest as well as how to enter and what products it was found with!

Thanks all for your help.

...and thanks for posting the ad you found. My eyes are not as good as they used to be, so I cannot decipher the rules due to the low res of your image. I enhanced and focused it as much as my software allows, but maybe if you can repost it in higher res (larger size file) it would be helpful, as the rules appear to list more products than just bar soap and toothpaste - since those cardboard containers are obviously not what your cutout came from.

AP34 · #9 12-01-2022, 09:49 AM

Here is a zoomed in contest rules

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