The 1932 US Caramel set is a 31 card set featuring every President from George Washington to Franklin D. Roosevelt. The cards came in 3 different colors: red, orange, and blue, blue being the rarest of the 3.

When you purchased a package of candy, you received 1 President card in the package. The company offered a prize if you acquired and mailed in all 31 cards: 1 pound of chocolate. Here’s the catch: they withheld the William McKinley card from distribution so that people would keep buying their candy, and they would never have to give away a free pound of chocolate.

This William McKinley is considered the T206 Honus Wagner of vintage non-sports cards, with roughly 10 copies known to even exist. In 2014, an SGC 5 copy sold for $96,000. Because of how rare and expensive this card is, collectors consider the set “complete” at 30 cards without the McKinley.

Here’s a picture of my complete set that I’ve worked on over the past couple of years. I’m working to finish the set in all-blues, which is the rarest color by far as mentioned above. There are a few complete sets out there that I’m aware of, however I’ve never seen an all-blue complete set.

Big find in a filing cabinet in Carolina. A 237 year old copy of the US Constitution is primed to make a big splash on September 28 in Brunk Auctions (it has already reached $1M in bids).

A quote from Nan Zander, (Brunk Auctions Art Specialist) - “We always check on the rarity and authenticity of documents, but when it is this rare, the game steps up exponentially. It’s the prize of all prizes for rare historic documents, and the sky is the limit as far as bidding goes.”

This one seems that it can go pretty high!

https://news.artnet.com/market/auction-rare-copy-us-constitution-2534085

https://live.brunkauctions.com/online-auctions/brunk/the-printed-archetype-of-the-united-states-constitution-4926600

Do you collect vintage non-sports cards? If not, what non-sports topics would interest you the most? 🤔

I‘m brand new to Mantel, looking forward to helping grow the vintage non-sports card community on here!

Pictured is a card from my collection from 1909, depicting our Founding Fathers drafting the Declaration of Independence 🇺🇸

Cool seeing all of these old cards tied to presidents from members like @BreakoutCards and @GILES. I know next to nothing about the category but did pick up a 1924 W562 William Howard Taft about a year ago. Hand cut! Something about the portrait caught my eye, maybe the smile, and the subtle similarities to the Wagner T206 given the orange background.