D305 Bond Bread set vs SQUARE Reprints

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

One of the earliest available Post-WWII baseball card sets is the 1947 Homogenized Bond Bread issue.
The 48 black and white cards in this set were found inserted in loaves of Bond Bread. And, in order to
package these cards inside the bread loaves, their four corners were die-cut beveled (or ROUNDED).
This set includes major rookie (or 1st) cards of Yogi Berra, Gil Hodges, Ralph Kiner, Stan Musial, Jackie
Robinson and Bobby Thomson. Major Stars include Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, and Ted Williams. Since
33 players (of the 44 BB cards) in this set are from NYC and Boston teams, this set is thought of as
a regional issue; however, Bond Bread was marketed nationwide and these cards were available as far
west as St Louis.

A controversy has existed in the hobby regarding the very available SQUARE corner versions of these
original cards. My findings are....

The ROUNDED cards are the real originals printed and issued in 1947....and they are tough to find.

The SQUARE cards fall into two categories......

(1) A second printing of only 24 of these BB cards was done when the manufacturer issued a Movie Star
set sometime in the 1950's.

(2) These same 24 BB players were again REPRINTED on inferior cardboard stock (date unknown, but before their
big FIND in the early 1980's).

In any event, the SQUARE cards are not to be regarded as the original 1947 issue. However, Grading Cos. are
grading them and erroneously labeling them as "1947 Homogenized Bond Bread".

Buyers beware....these SQUARE cards are not the real "rookies".


TED Z







SQUARE cornered cards issued in the 1950's

[Johnphotoman]

I am not good with computers, I apologize for being all over the post about this subject. To tell you the truth I don't even know whose posts I have responded to. But here it goes...to add to my confusion I see the cards are distinguished as D305. Also, there is called a "Premium" set size 6 5/8x 9, and then there is another set...3 3/8x5 5/8. Are all these cards D305? I believe the rounder 1947 cards are 2 1/4x3 1/2?
To get this straight... There is a 1947 Bond Homogenized Bread set with rounded and squared corners.
There is a two-set "Premium" 1947 Bond Homogenized Bread set that is larger in size, and all these sets are distinguished by D305 sets! Help!!!! I will not touch the Robinson 13 set called Bond Bread, leaving out the word Homogenized.
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[Exhibitman]

The PC-sized ones are often called 'Bond Bread Exhibit Cards' because they resemble Exhibit Supply Co products.



They and the other oddball items with the same artwork were likely either made by or licensed by Chicago-based Aarco Playing Cards.

The round-cornered cards were even licensed to a dairy in 1949: