Posted By:
Ted ZanidakisAdam B
Forum members are probably tired of reading my continuing comments
on these cards; however, I must interject my thoughts once again.
The "SQUARE" Homogenized Bond Bread cards that are being graded with
a 1947 date are incorrectly labelled. How do I know this....this set was
the very first BB cards I collected as a kid in 1947 and 1948. Further-
more, my entire collection from my youth survived and all 48 cards from
this set have the "ROUND" corners. And, I have compared notes with other
veteran hobbyists who also collected these cards in their youth and they,
too, never-ever recalled seeing SQUARE cards.
Now, your Walker Cooper card is an important tell-tale clue. As you noted
this card is not recorded in any price guide (not Beckett, nor Krause).
And, he is not in my original set of ROUND cards. Several more SQUARE
cards of players ,who have not been catalogued as the original 48, have
surfaced in recent years; so, the mystery behind these SQUARE cards only
deepens.
But, no one will ever convince me that the SQUARE cards are a 1947 issue.
My theory is that the SQUARE cards were printed after 1949, or perhaps
sometime later, but were never inserted in Bond bread packages. One thing
is certainly true, the cardboard stock that the SQUARE cards are printed
on is an inferior one than the original ROUND stock.
But, of course a collector would not be able to discern this difference once
the cards are hermetically sealed in plastic.