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These are prices we will pay for nice empty boxes
* Prices vary with color, condition, grade, markings, age, and desirablity.
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| Rhodes' Kalamazoo Fishing Tackle Co. Mechanical Frog in tan/buff colored cardboard box (c.1905?) $800-up * |  |
| Black "introductory" cardboard box with silver imprinted top for Revolutions, Worden bucktail, Shur-Lure (1902-1905) $1,000-up * |  |
| Shakespeare Rhodes Wooden Minnow maroon cardboard box (1906) $500-up * |  |
| Early Shakespeare buff or white cardboard picture box with a printed "picture" label of a 3 or 5 hooker underwater minnow on top (1905-1906) $1,000-up * |  |
| Shakespeare Wooden Minnow in a maroon cardboard box with paper label attached to top and end (1907-1909) $1,000-up * |  |
Early Shakespeare wood box with paper label on top (1907-1910) $400-up * |
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Later wood box with red ink imprinted logo on top of box and paper label on the end (1910-1918?) $400-up * |
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| Gray box with green and red logo with various end labels (1912-1924 and maybe into 1930's) $200 * |  |
| Orange and blue box (1925-1950's) $10 * |  |
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Introductory or "intro" box examples:
Various Shakespeare introductory or special issue cardboard boxes were used the first year of production:
| Slim Jim introductory white cardboard box with printed label on top (1907) $400-up * |
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| Kazoo Wooden Minnow introductory white/buff cardboard box (1909) $400-up * |
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Whirlwind introductory maroon box with white paper label on top (1909) $500-up * |
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(Intro boxes not shown: Punkinseed, Musky Underwater, Rhodes Mechanical Frog.)
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