These Girl Scout and Boy Scout Cracker Jack prizes are from a series of sixteen stand-ups from 1950. The prizes in this series are approximately 1 11/16" high, and they are marked with the NOSCO copyright on the top of the base. These stand-ups are flat rather than three-dimensional, and the two sides are mirror images of each other.
This series of stand-ups includes an odd assortment of subjects: athletes, cowboys, an Indian, a boy who has gone fishing, a girl riding an ostrich, a girl roller skating, a clown balancing a poodle in his hand, a giraffe with a monkey on its neck feeding it a banana, and an organ grinder and monkey.
The NOSCO marking indicates that these prizes were produced for Cracker Jack by the Plastics Division of the National Organ Supply Company. NOSCO made several series of prizes for the Cracker Jack Company, all stand-up figures except for a series of zodiac coins. Some NOSCO stand-ups are made of a hard, breakable polystyrene plastic like these; and others, such as the series of
spacemen and aliens, are made of a flexible, rubbery polyethylene plastic.
Prizes in this series can be differentiated from others made by NOSCO by their height, thickness (with these being thinner than others), and the size and shape of the bases.