Foil wrapped large marble? Woody Held metal lid?

[poorman15]

Found these two items in my yard last evening. The round things looks like a large marble wrapped in foil. It looks to still be factory wrapped so I don't want to take off any more foil to determine what it actually is if possible. The second is a lid to something with an Indians player on it Woody Held. Any idea what these things are would be appreciated. Thanks

 

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[creskol]

The Woody Held item is what they called a "Topps Coin" 1964 era, I think.

... Site added to post: https://www.gfg.com/baseball/64coins.shtml Scroll down to coin number 29

As a kid living on a farm, we use to wrap marbles in tinfoil ..yup.. tinfoil .. not aluminum foil .. and shoot them skywards from our slingshots to drive the bats crazy at night.

 

[osage express]

The Lid as you call it is a 1962 Topps metal baseball card.....Woody Held..... Hope this helps

 

[poorman15]

I called it a lid because I was unaware that they made round metal baseball cards. Thanks for the info.

 

[poorman15]

Thanks for the info folks. Never know Topps made baseball coins. $2.75 in good condition. Mine........Price-less trash condition. Still neat finding something I never know existed though. Thanks again!

 

[surf]

Woody Held! You dug up Woody Held!

Woody could play. He was part of the infamous Roger Maris trade.

This was the 1962 Salada / Schirriff:

1962 Shirriff Baseball Coins #5, Woody Held

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The round things looks like a large marble wrapped in foil. It looks to still be factory wrapped so I don't want to take off any more foil to determine what it actually is if possible.

Marbles did not come from the factory with tinfoil ears or headdresses. I can only imagine a home decorated marble, perhaps made during a stimulating episode of the MMC starring Annette Funicello.

 

[poorman15]

I wasn't saying the thing was a factory wrapped marble. I said looked like. The foil did look to be precision wrapped as if it came from a factory. That's all I was meaning by that. If a kid did it, it wouldn't have been so tightly wrapped.

 

[surf]

There's no such thing as an individually factory wrapped marble in the toy / game arena. These were inexpensive toys. The finest German marbles came boxed, many moons ago. Otherwise, it was bags, or sacks. "Fast forward to 1912, and page 98 of the Butler Bros. catalog proves that American marble manufacturing has been busy."

Original Boxes of German Handmade Marbles | Marbles Galore​

 

[creskol]

I wasn't saying the thing was a factory wrapped marble. I said looked like. The foil did look to be precision wrapped as if it came from a factory. That's all I was meaning by that. If a kid did it, it wouldn't have been so tightly wrapped.

The ones we wrapped with tinfoil to "foil the bats" were very tightly wrapped. It didn't take much of an effort to wrap something very tightly in tinfoil. Aluminum foil on the other hand takes just a little more effort.

 

[diggummup]

Pull that tin foil off the marble and lets have a look see. I have a small collection of about 80 of the 1964 Topps baseball "coins".

 

[poorman15]

After getting criticism for saying looking like factory wrapped or at least that is what I meant. I was very tightly wrapped like candy from a factory. being a fat kid, I know what factory wrapped candy looks like! Thanks for the into on tin foil. Never used it.

 

[surf]

Hey poorman,

I meant no criticism, and was attempting to tell you the truth about marble packaging.

Sorry if you're feeling put upon...

 

[Calico Jack]

Taste the marble. Perhaps it is a jawbreaker.

 

[sanford.]

I remember my dad telling me that when he was a kid in the late 1930's or early 1940's that they could buy a factory packaged cookie at the local country store that had a marble sitting in the center of it. He didn't say whether it was wrapped in foil or not, but it sounds logical. Can you imagine the law suits today if a kid found a marble in his cookie?