2 Ten Cent Nip Wax Bottle Candy Cartons c1960s-70s W & F Mfg Buffalo NY Gurley

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Up for auction is pair of Ten c (cent) Nip wax bottle shaped candy carton, AUCTION IS FOR CARTONS ONLY, made by W&F Co., Inc., Buffalo, NY, we found the following information online:
In 1927, Franklin C. Gurley, Sr. left his position at Buffalo's National Aniline & Chemical Co. to build a candy business of his own. He purchased Robert White's new confectionary company, W&F Manufacturing Co., which had incorporated only the year before to produce, "...all kinds of candies, chocolates, ice cream dainties and parafine (sic) novelties." Gurley reported his occupation as "confectioner" by the 1930 census.
Just a few blocks away, Glenn Confections was busily engaged in producing their popular paraffin novelties, and continued to do so after becoming the wax candy division of W&F Manufacturing Co. Wax horse teeth (said to taste like wintergreen), and other novelties chattered profitably down Glenn's production line while Franklin Gurley explored further expansion opportunities for his rapidly growing company.
W&F Mfg. began producing novelty candles for Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. in 1939, using paraffin from Socony's nearby refinery at Olean, NY -- once home to the world's largest crude oil storage site. W&F's "Tavern Candles" Santas, reindeer, elves and other colorful Christmas favorites are still prized by E-Bay collectors as are Gurley's elaborately molded Halloween candles. Decorative and scented Gurley paraffin candles soon became W&F Mfg.'s principal product, accounting for 98% of sales, but production of Glenn's wax candy novelties continued. A field of metal tanks, some holding 20,000 gallons of paraffin, stood adjacent to Gurley's Buffalo factory.
As W&F's wax candy division, Glenn Confections produced the popular ancestors of today's Wack-O-Wax and Nik-L-Nips.
At its peak, W&F produced about 30-million novelty wax candies annually, but the company's principle product, decorative candles, fought an uphill battle as import competition became fierce. The price of paraffin went from 7¢ to 50¢ per pound during the 1982 oil shortage. W&F Products struggled. In 1994, after almost 70-years in business, the company failed.
Exact age unknown but we think circa 1960's-1970's but not sure, f
rom estate auction held at the Greenawalt Dairy Farm home built in 1860's in Beloit, Ohio and they kept everything, carton size is appx 2 5/8" high.
Condition: Cartons show light use/wear, AUCTION IS FOR CARTONS ONLY, very light soiling, will find a few creases on handles and along edges.  Overall: Cartons are near VG to VG.
GREAT PAIR OF TEN CENT NIP WAS BOTTLE CANDY CARTONS FROM NE OHIO ESTATE
CHECK OUR AUCTIONS FOR OTHER ITEMS FROM GREENAWALT DAIRY FARM ESTATE IN BELOIT, OHIO BUILT IN 1860'S AND THEY KEPT EVERYTHING FROM THE START THAT WE WILL BE LISTING OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS
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