butchie t- In post #2 through #15 in this thread, we were having a conversation on a set of cards you purchased back in May of 1990 from the Baseball Card Society.
Question: In the original thread posted by rdwyer-post 200, he posted a letter from the Baseball card society. Do you remember that letter and is it the same letter you posted in this thread #15?
I remember that letter and it is the same on I have and posted later in that thread.
https://net54baseball.com/showpost.p...&postcount=377
I posted the letters that I received from BCS and that was one of the 2 letters regarding the set.
I can tell you for a fact that I received this letter in the early 90's while I was a member of BCS and stationed overseas. As you can see by the 3 paged letter, I had made my purchase of the set 1 May 90. I still have the invoice from that purchase as well.
https://www.net54baseball.com/showpo...1&postcount=15
Question: Do you remember Ted Z's response to that letter?
Going through the thread, Ted never really commented directly about that letter from what I could see. I did phrase searches using the below information, never found any matches.
I quoted Ted Z's response and evaluation of that letter in the original thread in post #12 of this thread. I quoted Ted Z exactly word for word.
For some reason I can not find that post by Ted Z, but this is what he said about that letter.
"This document appears to be the evidence regarding the source of the RE-printed "1947 Bond Bread" cards which David Festberg discovered in a NJ warehouse in the 1980's. It is not dated, however in its text it implies a circa 1980's date, which does coincide with Festberg's find. Plus, the fact that 24 cards are being advertised. The original BOND BREAD set of cards consists of 48 cards.
When I first saw these cards in the early 1990's at the Philly Show, I purchased several of them. When I got home, I compared them to my original 1947 BOND BREAD cards, which I collected in my youth. And, it was very obvious, that these were inferior reproductions." TED Z
I read the letters, and nowhere does it say anything like Ted Z said!
Question: Am I wrong or am I missing something here? And is it because of what Ted Z said about that letter: you said in post #412- “Here is my Jackie Robinson, front and back for comparison. I purchased this along with the other 23 way back in May of 1990 from the Baseball Card Society. What I know up to now, it is part of the Festberg find.”
Based strictly on the information contained within that thread, and my limited knowledge of the cards, I certainly made the assumption that they were from the Festberg find. I had no reason to believe otherwise.
butchie t, I believe you have a different set of cards, then the ones we see all the time, and they are definitely not from the Festberg find, more to come on this, I will explain. For now I await your answers. Thanks John[/QUOTE]
John, maybe they are not from the Festberg find. I know the cards backs that I have do not match the Festberg examples that have been posted subsequently. And even abctoo had several interactions with Ted as well. I believe abctoo is still active on this site and am somewhat curious as to him not weighing in on this thread.
Anyway, that is what I have for now.
B.T.