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Don't forget the Bond Bread Perforated - unlike the Exhibits, PSA still grades these...if you can find them. I have the Ted Williams Exhibits and rounded corners, but need to find the perforated.

Originally Posted by JUrsaner

I was half joking, but I do find it difficult to keep up with these threads when the information seems to jump around all over the place — similar to the guidepost Bond thread by TedZ.

The main points I've gathered from both of the threads...

A — What most collectors would like referred to as 1947 Bond Bread are either:

"1947" Bond Bread Jackie Robinson set... which have different images with square corners and include the iconic portrait/facsimile auto card, but ...
— these were not packaged in the bread and were rather a set of ad/promo cards for the bread cards... and...
— based on some of the images... these did not all come out in 1947...

1947 "Homogenized" Bond Bread cards... the real deal, not the "imposters" as TedZ had put it... with their irregular beveled corners, straight from the bread packages... but ...
— what was the distribution on these cards? Was it a "regional" issue or were these all along the East Coast where it should be considered a "true" RC?

B — What most people are unsure about being referred to as 1947 Bond Bread but are actually:

1947 Sports/Screen Star Subjects... that were similar cards packaged in 4x subset boxes with W.S.N.Y printed [AJ Wildman & Son] on the back of the box... but...
— may or may not have been issued w/ beveled corners, depending on the timeline of the same printer using overflow cards, similar process, etc.

And any other weird/rare/oddball scalloped-edge and/or dual-sided cards from the same era... that always pop up in these threads, but for the most part are irrelevant to the conversation...

C — What most people do not want referred to as 1947 Bond Bread cards:

Later issued, square-shaped and sometimes larger format Exhibit cards...

D — And of course what collectors are terrified of referring to as 1947 Bond Bread cards:

The "1980s" Festburg "Find"...
— which are not "fake" cards and were most likely to printed around the same time, but a few years later in the late 1940s/1950s (?) as the next run (?) of cards with the same images from the print manufacturer...
— but to be produced for the box sets, not the bread... and on a lower quality paper stock, which then over time became surplus in a warehouse...