[Johnphotoman]

I agree wholeheartedly with Scott, he is right on. Bond Bread did not print their own cards. It was only after seeing the Sports Star cards, they contacted the Chicago publisher, Aarco Playing Cards to print the same cards for them to put in their loaves of bread. Aarco, who originally sold the cards in 1947 in boxed sets of 12 under the name Collectors & Traders Sports Star Subjects. And as Scott said, the 1980s Festberg find are: “The cards from the "find" are on old paper stock, not paper stock from the 1980's. They are left over stock from the 1940's or early 1950's. I don't know why collectors would shy away from them, they are legit 1940's-1950's cards.”

I am not saying the 80s Fesberg are not from the 1947-50s, someone stored these cards printed from 1940-50s and they stayed there until Fesberg found them in 1980 or so. But it's just good to know what we have in our collection, and since we can tell them apart from the others we should designate them as such. I do believe people should collect the 1980 find. But we should be able to say if they are from The Sports Star/Bond Bread sets in our collection. It if fun to know what you have - anyway they are all good to have, just not as good as the-reprints or fakes. Thank You Scott, John.