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Aviation Chewing Gum Premiums
(V402)
World Wide Gum, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Series Title: AVIATION Chewing Gum
and The BIG 3
Series Premiums
Issued by: World Wide Gum, Montréal, Québec
Country of Origin: Canada
American Card Catalog Number: V402
Number of Cards: 2 × 10
Card Dimensions: 9.00 × 4.75 in. (22.86 × 12.07 cm)
Circa: 1940
Checklist: Download
Overview
During the early years of World War II, the World Wide Gum Company, Montréal, Québec, Canada (a.k.a. Goudey Gum Canada) issued the following wartime series of trading cards: (1) Aviation Chewing Gum
(V401-1), (2) Aviation Series
(V401-2), (3) Marine Bubble Gum
(V403-1), (4) Marine Series
(V403-2), (5) Victory Bubble Gum
(V406-1), and Victory Series
(V406-2). All of theses sets featured military photos plus descriptive text in both English and French.
Premiums Series
The initial Aviation Chewing Gum
(V401) series was subsequently followed with a series of ten premium issue cards. These ten cards were known as the “AVIATION Chewing Gum Premiums,” and are listed in the American Card Catalog as reference number V402. The cards feature brown-sepia images of 10 different World War II British combat aircraft. The cards are numbered 1 to 10. Later, “The BIG Three Series Premiums” of ten cards became an extension of the series, and these blue-sepia cards were numbered 11 through 20. The second series contains one tank, one Canadian built Corvette, and eight aircraft. Both series are printed on heavy paper stock and measure 9.00 × 4.75 inches.
Image-Guide
The following Image-Guide shows the two 10-card “Premium” subsets for the V402 series. The “AVIATION Chewing Gum” and “The BIG 3 Series” Premiums.
Checklist
| V402 Premiums | ||
|---|---|---|
| "AVIATION Chewing Gum" Premiums | ||
| 1 | The Armstrong Whitworth ”Whitley” | |
| 2 | The Blackburn ”Skua” | |
| 3 | The Boulton Paul ”Defiant” | |
| 4 | The Bristol ”Blenheim” | |
| 5 | The Fairey ”Battle” | |
| 6 | The Hawker ”Hurricane” | |
| 7 | The Miles ”Master” | |
| 8 | The Short ”Sunderland” | |
| 9 | The Supermarine ”Spitfire” | |
| 10 | The Vickers ”Wellington” | |
| "The BIG 3 Series" Premiums | ||
| 11 | The Bristol ”Beaufort” | |
| 12 | The Douglas ”Boston” | |
| 13 | A British high-speed cruiser tank | |
| 14 | The Fairey ”Fulmar” | |
| 15 | The Lockheed ”Hudson” | |
| 16 | The Blackburn ”Botha” | |
| 17 | A Canadian-built ”Corvette” | |
| 18 | The Bristol ”Bolingbroke” | |
| 19 | The Grumman ”Interceptor” | |
| 20 | The Hawker ”Henley” | |
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