When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
These EPPY charms are most likely Cracker Jack and gumball machine charms/toys from the 1940s or 1950s. This listing is for 23 charms, all different and represent 23 different countries. They are all in excellent condition and some are very rare.
These are all New Old Stock, they were never placed in gumball machines and are essentially new. I have dozens more and this listing features the best condition of all of them.
“The history of the gumball charm business began with the Eppy Co. in New York.Samuel Eppy started manufacturing the copper, silver, and gold flashed or coated charms, opening the Samuel Eppy Co. in Jamaica, N.Y.,in 1938. According to researcher Jeffrey Maxwell, Samuel Eppy was a leader in the bulk vending industry who pioneered both vacuum plating and vacuum metalizing for plastics. Vending companies used these plastic charms to boost gum sales, putting them in capsules (small gum-filled eggs). In the heyday of vending machine charms, in the 1940s and 50s, Eppy was considered the largest manufacturer.”
