| These scarce cards makes no mention of a manufacturer on it, however the style, size and image is identical a series issued by the CANADIAN CHEWING GUM Co. as an insert premium with their Papoose Gum in the 1930's identified as V254 in Burdicks American Card Catalogue, and the series issued by the Hamilton Chewing Gum under the title TEEPEE gum identified as series V416. The date is hard to pin down on this one. The Canadian Chewing Gum issues were definitely issued in the 1930's. The Non Sports Bible indicates that the TEEPEE series may have been issued in the 1950's by Parkhurst. I know this is incorrect because I have the Wrapper for the TEEPEE series and it indicates the manufacturer as Hamilton Chewing Gum (and it is a 2 cent wrapper). Hamilton Chewing Gum also issued the V289 Hollywood Stars series in 1938, and the V290 Cowboy Series in the 1930's as well according to the Non Sports Bible). As I mentioned the Hamilton Chewing Gum TeePee wrapper that I own is a 2 Cent wrapper. However the backs of this card indicate that this series was given away with 1 cent Sticks of TeePee Picture Gum. (Generally it is accepted that 1 cent gum packs are pre-world War 2). There was also another version of this series which does not even mention TeePee Gum on the back (often referred to as the Anonymous Issue Series). I speculate that the series without the teepee gum name (anonymous issue series) may have been the series issued by Hamilton Gum in the 2 cent TeePee Picture Gum Wrapper I have (possibly at a later date), and that there is still a 1 cent version of the wrapper to be found that was issued pre-war that this series of TeePee Picture Gum Indians came with. Often all three types of backs are found together in lots when you come across them, so it it is still a mystery. The front of the card features an image of the particular chief (taken from the paintings housed in the Library of Congress), while the back features a brief history of the Native American featured on the front, in both French & English. This is a nice addition when compared to the other sets using these images. The Allen and Ginter and other companies did not have any descriptions or history about the featured chiefs. The images used are the same used on other insert cards put out by Allen & Ginter Tobacco , American Caramel and Weber Bread to name a few. | ||