What did I buy? Mays and mantle!!!

[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.

[Volod]

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]

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]

very impressive " detective work " by you guys !

[Volod]

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]

Here is a zoomed in contest rules

[Volod]

Originally Posted by AP34

Here is a zoomed in contest rules

...hmmm, so these rules do not show any additional products, which I would take to mean that this particular part of the three-part contest limited entries to blanks found on those products only. Since your cutout likely came from some large heavyweight cardboard box, such as All Detergent, or Rinso Detergent, those products must have been featured in ads for the second and/or third parts of the contest. Does the hunt continue?

[slidekellyslide]

Here is the listing where Fred's (Whitey) came from. You can tell it's the same one from the perforations. It sold for $32.47 in 2018 on ebay.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthoped...est-1965121687