I just had an Enos Slaughter returned from SGC as a fake :(

I was sad about it. Got it at my local card store for like 10 bucks so was worth the chance

Square or round corners?

Festberg Scans provided Member butchie_t
 

Member "butchie_t" sent me a CD-Rom with high resolution scans of the front and back of all 24 Festberg remainders, plus the tag the Baseball Card Society sent with them in December 1989. I'm working on sizing them to post here on net54baseball.

We all - much thanks to our new member.

Mike

Thanks for this thread.

I recently picked up a lot of 7 "1947 Bond Bread cards" fairly cheaply. (I also got a couple of 1948 Kelloggs Pep cards with the lot).

Based on this thread, I think only my Sheldon Jones is a true Bond Bread with the others being Sports Star Subjects.

Seems about right.

The so-called "Bond Bread Perforated Cards" are not Bond Bread
 

Posted in this thread, Post #48, 06-08-2009, 05:22 pm

https://i.imgur.com/G6QfFzh.jpg?3

ELGEE is Louis Greenberg & Son, Inc.. The company originally incorporated in New York in 1929. It wholesaled sundry products to specialty and variety stores ("dime" stores), often labeling them as “AN ELGEE PRODUCT,” as it did the card set often misdescribed as "Bond Bread Perforated Cards." In 1964, it trademarked a special logo containing its initials, “LGS.”

https://i.imgur.com/QgAAvNx.jpg?1

https://i.imgur.com/nmChlHu.jpg?1

https://i.imgur.com/JCz2Ffv.jpg?1

https://i.imgur.com/5QgPWHD.jpg?1

One of their very popular products was "ELGEE MINIATURES," similar in boxing to "Matchbox" vehicles but made in cheaper plastic.

https://i.imgur.com/UMxVQhE.jpg?1

Each of the two sheets in the set had 24 cards, that's 48 sides. Since two adjoining cards had half of the set description shown above on back, only 46 sides contained "assorted subjects" of Sports, Hollywood or Cowboys. Thus, the indication of "46 subjects" shown on each sheet. With two sheets being made, that a total of 92 sides of cards with pictures of subjects plus 4 sides with set description for a total of 96 sides, or 48 cards. Here's a well known example of one of the descriptive backs with a cowboy on the other side.

https://i.imgur.com/PodD9UR.jpg?1

The picture appears to be that of Randolph Scott in "The Desparadoes" (1943).

[Added June 1, 2021] Louis Greenberg & Son imported products in bulk and printed and manufactured their own packaging for both foreign and domestically produced products. They had the capabilities to print their perforated "Sports, Hollywood, Cowboys" set.

If anyone has an Elgee Product list , price sheet or invoice from any time period; it may help identify their numbering system, other card sets they made have issued, as well as provide a guide to dating. Thank you.

Copyright 2021 by Michael Fried, P.O. Box 27521, Oakland, California 94602-0521

I am sure this is a dumb question, but when looking at SGC Pop report when you look up 1947 Bond Bread, which sub-category is the rounded corner listed as or is it just listed without a sub-category? I am assuming it is the version with 55 listed.

https://www.gosgc.com/pop-report/res...Bread/Baseball

Good Question. I just checked the PSA website for an answer. I could no longer find in either PSA's population report nor its price guide a Bond Bread set with 55 graded cards (or 57 cards as I seem to remember). They now list only the "1947 Bond Bread Jackie Robinson" 13-card set with 333 cards graded and a set they call the "1947 Bond Bread Perforated Dual Sided." The perforated set is the ELGEE set produced by Louis Greenberg and Son discussed above and has nothing to do with Bond Bread. What has PSA now done with the regular 48 card sports set that Bond Bread inserted into bread packages?

I don't think PSA has been grading these for years.

Actually, I believe it was listed as Portrait with a population of 44.