Square vs. Rounded 1947 Bond Bread

[MBMiller25]

Ted, This is great information. Thanks for sharing this. I have been looking for a Musial for quite some time. I wasn't quite sure what it should look like, so I appreciate this alot!

[Exhibitman]

On an unrelated but interesting note, I was able to locate a full sized photo used to make Primo Carnera's card for the set. What looks like hash marks below the name is actually the photographer's stylized signature: Chas. Heath.



Charles Heath was a Los Angeles-based photographer known in sporting circles as having served as Jim Jeffries' official photographer at his facility in Burbank, the municipality right next door to Glendale, where Carnera operated a liquor store. Since Carnera was wrestling in the 1940s-1950s to make ends meet and was based a few miles from Jeffries, I suspect that when it came to publicity photos Heath was the logical choice. Here is a stamped, ink-signed Heath original from Jeffries' facility:

[ls7plus]

A fair number of the square-cornered cards became available in the early to mid '90's, as I recall. I have the Kiner and Mize. Examination of the dot printing pattern under 16X power reveals that they are not counterfeits in the sense of having been rescreened, but were in fact printed from the same original plates as the rounded cards.

Interesting thread--thanks for your input, Ted. It's always welcome.

Best, guys,

Larry

[Exhibitman]

"A recent find of many of these SQUARE cards (BB and Movie Stars) suggest a 1949 issue date since Walker Cooper is depicted in this col-
lection as a NY Giant (Cooper was traded to Cinci in the Summer of '49)"

Actually, what it proves is that the manufacturer used a photo taken before the trade, not the timing of the card manufacture itself. Had he been in a Reds uni it would prove a manufacturing date no earlier than the date of the trade. It is just like taking a photo with a newspaper in it to prove the date--doesn't prove the photo wasn't created later but definitely shows the earliest possible date of creation.