This is the Papa Ginos Drink Cup of Bobby Orr from the 1970's and you can see the facsimile autograph under the photo. These cups tend to chip if you were to insert them into another cup by pulling them apart can scratch the photo and remove the dark area to white scratches. So, these cups are quite sensitive and looking closely you can see indents to the cups.
If you look at this photo you can see two indents and they look to be bite marks right above the player info. This cup of Orr is from a different year as the other cup I have is of Dallas Smith and you can see the difference in the color of the Papa Ginos ad.
This is the Dallas Smith cup, and this cup appears to have a stronger photo than that of the Orr cup.
In this photo of the Smith cup, you can see the ad is in Green but the Orr cup the Papa Ginos ad is in red. The Smith ad is also showing more damage as it appears this cup must have been used for drinking and got washed several times. I find it odd that the Smith ad looks lighter but the front showing his photo looks darker than that of Orr's.
The next three photos will show a Boston Bruins Candy dish and there are some collectors that call these ash trays instead of a candy dish. This one is of Phil Esposito and this one appears to be in mint condition as I don't see any chipping or scratches. I like seeing the facsimile autograph and as you can see Phil's auto is always identical.
This is the Bobby Orr version but a bit less condition than the Esposito one. I believe there are 23 of these dishes with the toughest one being the Bruins "B" Logo.
The final one is of Don Awrey and is in nice condition as these dishes are in demand for serious collectors and I purchased these back in 2000 for a song, I believe I paid $40 for the three and the Papa Ginos cups I got both for $5, and today these would be a lot more.
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