[butchie_t]

Fake is certainly an interesting tag line here.

I will agree that fake can be used in conversation about the square cards being 'fake' Bond Bread Cards.

That is where the 'fake' monicker stops for me.

Now, lets move on to what is probably more closer to fact then fake. The square cards are more than likely circa late 40's.

They were more than likely printed from proofs? that were also used for the Bond Bread Cards. The similarities are just too strong to ignore out of hand.

Who printed them? Pretty damned good chance it was Aarco that printed them.

And I believe it fair to say they ended up in the Sports Star Subjects Sets. This for me, is the missing link.

Michael Fried had a great deal of data and conversations between net54 posters here and then went dark. I have reached out to him regarding this thread and to weigh back into it. But no reply from him.

Ted Z. was very adamant in their conversations but I am now of the opinion that Ted did not have all the facts either. That is fine, he remembered the cards as he did and was not inclined to engage in a different aspect of the origins of these cards.

So, here we are today. I believe John has put in a great deal of legwork to at least readdress the conversation as to where these cards belong in the hobby.

I believe they do belong in the hobby and not as fakes. Even some of the larger catalogs refer to the 'square cornered' cards. So it is not like they just showed up one day in the late 80's from out of the blue.

They were 'there' long before that and were rediscovered by someone.


I know there are many here that have information regarding this topic and I beg of you to weigh in with your thoughts. Wouldn't it be great to add another group of cards to the larger cataloging of cards.

These cards need a cataloged home. And not as a fake set of cards either.


Butch Turner