Posted By:
Al C.risafulliQuick note about the Homogenized Bond Bread cards.
As I understand it, Ted is correct in that the original cards that were issued with the bread came with rounded corners.
He is also correct in that the cards were later reprinted with square corners.
However, my understanding is that these cards were initially printed with square corners in 1947. The square corners were found to poke through the bread wrappers, though, and so the corners were cut to be round after the printing and cutting process (hence the weird, uneven rounded corners they all seem to have). At some point after 1947, a horde of ORIGINAL Bond Bread cards from 1947 were found with square corners that had never been rounded. These cards had allegedly never been distributed with the bread, but were found together in one place.
This complicates the issue of how to determine the Bond Bread reprints from the originals, because there actually are original Bond Bread cards with square corners. This is why I don't own any - I can't tell the difference.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe I am.
-Al