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Featuring the collection of lifelong coin-op enthusiast and bon vivant Tim LaGanke, our fall auction features arcade machines, carnival rides, automatons, animated window displays, and all manner of unusual mechanical novelties. Complementing these animatronic and coin-operated marvels are a host of vending and slot machines, gambling devices, masks, and unusual objects from days gone by.
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Lot 396

Group of Beech-Nut and other new old stock chewing gum, with original packaging.

Estimate: $200 - $300
Starting Bid
$100

Bid Increments

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$0 $5
$30 $10
$100 $25
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$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$5,000 $500
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$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

Group of Beech-Nut and other new old stock chewing gum, with original packaging. Includes:

Beech-Nut Spearmint Gum countertop box, with two five-stick packs and six loose individual sticks.

"A Souvenir from Beech-Nut" variety pack, with unopened packages of Beech-Nut Rummies, Oralgene, Spearmint Gum, and Peppermint Gum (outer packaging worn).

Nine 5-stick packages of Beech-Nut Mint Gum, plus four individual sticks, and fragments of original box. 

C.O. Beeman Jr.'s Chewing Gum, countertop box with seven five-stick packs of Pepsin or Spearmint gum, and three loose sticks.

Park & Tilford Chewing Gum, seven 12-piece packs (three different flavors).

Adams Gomaschar Chicle, countertop box of gum for the Argentinian market, including thirteen unopened packages (various flavors), stamped 1938 date to box underside.

Boxes 4 1/4 x 3 x 2" or similar; package length generally 3".

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