Auction #5 - June 2020
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/28/2020
The Phoenix Candy Company of Brooklyn, New York issued a number of candy boxes--largely in the late 1960's into the 1970's. Typically, the series were eight boxes in size with the occasional (6) or (12) box set. The boxes of candy--in most instances have a theme for the set and included candy and plastic novelties inside the box. Non-sport.com lists 21 different Phoenix candy box sets with a wide array of topics. The later series all seemed to revolve around television or movies. Each box within a given set has a character from the television series or movie and the boxes are almost always numbered within the series.
The "Welcome Back Kotter" candy box set of (8) boxes was issued in 1976--right at the height of the popularity of the show which ran from September 1975 to May 1979 and logged 95 episodes. The characters on the show were mostly lower economic level students in a challenged school being taught by an acerbic teacher. The show introduced us to iconic tv characters played by the likes of Gabe Kaplan, John Travolta and others.
This set of (8) boxes are largely in VG to VGEX condition and very clean. All flaps on the boxes are intact and it is rare to find complete sets of these boxes in such good shape.
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