08-15-2017, 06:36 AM
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Originally Posted by CharleyBrown
I don't understand the regional label for the Bond Bread cards. They were distributed in Montreal, Detroit, Baltimore, DC, St. Louis, NYC, and surrounding suburbs with a moderately sized African American population. Clearly they did not have the production numbers of Bowman or Leaf, but from rough estimates, at least 1 million portrait-facsimile cards were distributed in 1947.
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So the cards weren't available in 3 of the 4 or 5 most populous cities in the country and you wonder why they are a regional set?
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