Let’s rehash the Bond Bread controversy.

[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.

[JUrsaner]

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.

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

[butchie_t]

How much more proof is needed at this point. These are Homogenized Bond Bread cards.

Now, how to go about getting the two major card graders to get on board with this information.

Very hard to deny it now.

Thanks CardPadre and HUZZAH to John in dogging this effort.

I stand GOBSMACKED......

Cheers and WOOT!!!


Butch

[Johnphotoman]

Collectors & Traders Sport Star Subjects and the boxes they came in.

[Johnphotoman]

Collectors & Traders Screen Star Subjects.

[JUrsaner]

Thank you for posting these John!

[Johnphotoman]

Member butchie_t, did post BCS letters he had and the 24 W571 cards he purchased from BCS, thanks to him we know a lot about the cards BCS offered. The letters from butchie t, were the letters to members to buy the set of Bond Bread cards offered by BCS. We will call them the Original letters.

The letters from member CardPadre were to people who did not purchase the 24 card set. We will call them the second chance letters.

Now member Dave Hornish posted in: 1947 BOND BREAD and its "imposters"....show us your cards? An article from Sports Collectors Digest, by Bob Schulhof, January 22, 1993.

The three posts have formed what I call the smoking-gun. Which I will be posting soon. But first part 3 of Who did find a warehouse with Bond Bread cards in it? Where did BCS get their cards? Thanks for posting. John