1947 Bond Bread questions

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Posted By: Hal Lewis

Peter:

I saw that, and while most hobby publications may not "speculate" as to why there are some out there with square corners...

Bob Lemke doesn't pull any punches in his 2005 version of the big book. He makes it very clear that the cards originally came with ONLY the rounded corners.

BUT...

if someone can produce a 1947 Bond Bread card #37 (like the one shown above) with GENUINE rounded corners...

then it would certainly be Jackie's rookie card.

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HOWEVER....

Mr. Lemke shows in his book the 24 cards in the set that have NEVER shown up with the counterfeit SQUARE corners...

and Jackie is NOT one of them.

Accordingly... it is entirely possible that ALL of the Jackie Robinson cards from this set were REPRINTS made in the early 1980's.

What we need is a checklist for this set from some hobby magazine from 1975 to see which cards were listed for the set back then.

It may be that only 24 cards existed... and then 24 more were ADDED to the checklist when they were thought to have been "discovered" in the 1980's... but in fact they were NOT REAL.

We do know that only 24 cards showed up with SQUARE corners in the 1980's. What we do NOT know is if ANY of those 24 cards EXISTED with round corners prior to that date.

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Just seems very strange that NOBODY has had a GENUINE Jackie Robinson card #37 from this set slabbed by PSA if it is such a valuable and historical card.

Makes it seem like NONE of his cards from this set pass the PSA test. Hmmmmmmmmm.