1963 Jell-O Original Unopened Box with #80 Carl Yastrzemski

In 1963, if you were walking down the supermarket aisle, you would have seen unopened boxes of Jell-O stacked along the shelves, with the bold company logo on the front, along with the promise of a baseball trading card on the reverse. Eager children would have undoubtedly scoured the available boxes for their favorite player and implored their parents to buy that very box so they could cut out the card and add it to their collection. Presented here is a complete 3 oz. unopened box of Cherry Jell-O featuring an example of Boston Red Sox Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski on the reverse. The preservation of this box is most improbable. We have seen only a handful of complete boxes offered for sale at public auction in the last decade, many of which have been flattened or suffer from severe condition issues. The box (3.5 x 2.875 x 1 inches) is in overall Excellent condition with very light shelf wear, including a few minor surface flaws on the actual card area. Jell-O boxes are rarely seen in their original form, let alone with one of the key star cards to the series prominently displayed on the back. This is an extremely impressive collectible that would be at home in any world-class Carl Yastrzemski or food-issue collection.