Q: Back in the mid-fifties, the comic page of the newspaper ran a weekly contest where you could solve the puzzle and win a prize. This little girl charm was one of the prizes. It’s Dagwood Bumstead’s daughter, Cookie. She was part of a charm bracelet made of white metal.

A: Charm bracelets were popular in the 1950s and enameled metal charms like this little girl were made of many comic strip characters. Cookie is one of several charms representing characters in the comic strip “Blondie.” The strip has run in newspapers since 1930. Charms like this sell for less than $10.