Let’s rehash the Bond Bread controversy.

[butchie_t]

Originally Posted by Johnphotoman

Thank you, I do appreciate your help with this thread. With all due respect I have a question for you. Butch, with your own proof, why do you question if the cards you have are not original? The letter you have says…”the most unique sets of baseball cards ever produced - 1947 Homogenized Bond set.”
“40-year-old cards”. "Every one of The 24 cards are in gem mint condition -exactly as they were printed more than 40 years ago.”

I notice there is no date on the letter, but if we go back 40 years from 1970-1980 we come to the years-1930-1940. Therefore the cards you have would be in those eras. Also your letter says, "The 1947 Homogenized Bond set, which was printed for only one year, contained 48 cards in all (44 baseball players and 4 boxers. We purchased the best of the set--24 cards in all---from the dealers's widow."

Therefore, you would have the 24 set card from 1947. Thanks again, John.

John,

It all comes down to provenance. There is absolutely no way to tie these cards to a bread company or some other company that existed and printed them within the 47-48 timeframe. Someone that put that information in the letter to entice me to purchase even cannot or could not definitively state that these are actual Homogenized Bond Bread cards. He just claimed that they could be. At least that is what I have come to believe/understand now.

Now from a personal position I can see by comparing these cards to others within that time frame and much later, that they do compare themselves favorably to the earlier cards. But I am no expert and I have no other proof other than my hope.

Bottom line, until someone has enough gumption to actually do a serious amount of forensic work on these cards to actually place them in the 40's era, they remain a nice, somewhat expensive, novelty group of cards that I own.

I kept all the pertinent information from my purchase, including the invoice and the little tag that came with them. I can show my provenance but someone else has to do the gap tracking to actually get them to a documentable level that they can be cataloged as real.

Regards,

Butch