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Posted By: davidcycleback

Not commenting specifically about these Bond Breads in particular (as I haven't seen them), but, for round edge cards (1913 National Game, Nap Lajoie Game Cards, etc), if the corners are rounded much differently than the genuine cards that is a reliable sign in and of itself that the card isn't original. Most game card reprints can be identified simply by looking at the corners.

The National Games, Polo Grounds and such were factory die-cut en mass, and the corners are resultingly uniform throughout all the sets and cards. This is as opposed to someone in front of his television scissor cutting corner by corner. In the latter, not only can a corner be different than genuine, but each of the four corners can be different than each other-- proverbial Three Stooges, where they're all misfits and all different.