The 1947 BOND BREAD was issued quite early in 1947. I know this, as this set of 48 cards were my first BB cards that I collected when I was 9 years old.
The original 1947
ROUNDED cards are not that easy to find. The
SQUARE versions are not that scarce; however, they were not issued in 1947.
There are two versions of the
SQUARE issue. There was a redo of the 1947 cards in 1949 and these cards were packaged in 4 packs of 12 cards....
each of which were sold at novelty shops.
The David Festberg find in the early 1980's are reprints of only 24 of the 48 cards. The date of these 24 cards is a mystery.
Here are some of the more notable "rookie" cards in the original 1947 BOND BREAD set............
I even still have an original Bond Bread loaf wrapper
TED Z