Identifying Packaging

FIRST! A word of caution. Packaging that came with your nearly 100 year old mould may or may not be the original packaging it came in! While I have many moulds that are in their original packaging I also have moulds that allegedly came in the included packaging, only to find out after additional research that the packaging is NOT correct for the mould that it was sold with! That said below are samples of packaging and the moulds that 'should' be in the package!

	Allied Manufacturing Company Allied MFG Co., 1338 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL Having worked out a licensing deal with the Famous Artists Syndicate, Allied was able to sell merchandise depicting the popular characters of 1930s newspaper comic strips, or “funnies,” including Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, Moon Mullins, and Krazy Kat, among others.
	A. C. Gilbert 1931-1942 Gilbert sold “Kaster” sets from 1931-1942. A child could cast lead alloy soldiers, football players, marching bands, circus animals, cowboys and Indians with the over three dozen molds. There were 44 molds produced by the A. C. Gilbert Company. 29 semi flats and 15 slush molds.
	American Craft Mfg. 1935-1940 Also known as American Toy and Furniture Mfg. they were the makers of Ever-Ready Casting Sets. The moulds shown are not in the one American Craft catalog I have so I am not sure these are the original moulds that came in this box.
	Make A Toy
	Gebr. Schneider 1904-early 1930's
	Marks Brothers Toy Company This is literally the ONLY photo I have ever seen of a Marks Brothers Box. Note that the label at the top says Cast-A-Toy.
	Junior Caster By Rapaport Bros. 1930-bef.WWII The Rapaport Bros. first company name appears to have been Junior Caster. These two boxes are for the Extra Mold rather than the full kit. Note that the orange box is stamped 1205 which is a rare Buck Rogers Tiger Man mould.
	Cast-Rite By Rapaport Bros.
	Home Foundry The Home Foundry Mfg. Co., Inc. was a 1930s company producing casting kits of "metal characters". Their range of boxed sets were aimed at children and included Mickey Mouse and Flash Gordon. The figures were around 2¼" - 2½" high. The "Home Foundry" name lasted into the early 1950s but was second-billing to "Ever Ready" or "Cast Rite". These later sets were manufactured by the American Craft Mfg., Co. or Rapaport Bros. New moulds were added to the range with a Rapaport catalog claiming there were over 225 different "characters". These 3 companies were likely successor companies of each other.
	RAPCO RAPCO was the successor name to the Rapaport Companies. This box image is from a 1973 Casting Set.
	Ideal Co./Jdeal 1924-1942 This is the German Company not the American Ideal Toy Company. It is sometimes referred to a Jdeal however this is more a function of the German to english transcription of the German language catalogs. This box is an example of the challenges of an "original box" first the mould that was in it was stamped 251, which matched the Ideal catalog. Next the catalog I have does not go to 400. Finally someone wrote in pencil on the box top number no good.
	ACE Toy Mold Co. Produced Molds thru the Kast-A-Toy label. There were several different boxes. A 1937 Advertisement showed up to 33 moulds though not sure if all were actually available. The most unique was a sheriffs badge that you placed a No. 2 Safety pin into.