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Originally Posted by Johnphotoman
Thank you CardPadre. This is great. I do need time to look it over, Thank you again. It came at just the right time, It fits in with what I am going to write about the smoking -gun. John.
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Not sure if it was those exact ones, but I believe the Baseball Card Society documents have been posted before.
The theory then being that the "
Festburg Find" was a surplus print run of Series 3 and Series 4 of the
Sports Star Subjects boxes... 11x baseball players + 1x boxer in each series...
Which would've been based on the original 48-card
Bond Bread set of 44x baseball players, 4x boxers... likely produced by the same print company (Aarco?) and just separated into Series... which would've been the 2nd half of the set...
The
Sports Star Subjects may have originally (1947-1948?) been packed with rounded corners that were a way to recycle surplus cards from actual
Bond Bread printed cards... but then later (1948-1950?) switched over to square cards, since no reason to clip the corners if not in bread packaging... and then eventually also shifted to lower quality paper stock...
Which that surplus of later printing is what likely became the "
Festburg Find"...? And accounts for the difference in paper stock, back color, etc. relative to the "bread-issued" original
Bond Bread cards...
Auction photos of intact boxes/sets of the
Sports Star Subjects have been posted before. I don't have them saved, but if anyone had them and could post... that would likely be helpful