1947 Bond Bread Cards - Rounded Corner Question

[tedzan]

Hello Sally

Fresh out of the Bond Bread packages, the corners of these cards were always Rounded.

Obviously, the cards were printed in square form, then the corners were rounded using die-cut machinery.


There are two versions of the Square cards......

1st......A 2nd printing of the original 48 cards of the Bond Bread issue were available in stores in 1949 - 1950.
These Square cards were sold over-the-counter in packages of 12 cards each.

2nd......Date unknown, 24 of these cards were re-printed (circa 1980, a warehouse find of these cards occurred).
These re-printed cards were produced with inferior cardboard stock and are clearly distinguishable from the above
two original issues by their "cream-colored" backs.



TED Z
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[Exhibitman]

and to add to the fun the artwork was reused for various other issues such as the postcard sized 'exhibit' issue, the dual-sided perforated issue, and a variety of picture packs of varying sizes.

[rascalsally]

Adam, Yes! making it extremely difficult to weed through auctions new and old to decipher pricing. Basically I ended up taking a crap shoot approach to pricing my collection.

[EYECOLLECTVINTAGE]

I just got in a bond bread Jackie and Kiner. They feel so so flimsy. Are they supposed to be? Does anyone know if these are the 2nd print or the original?

Thanks

[tedzan]

Judging from your scans, and from your "flimsy" feel of them, these two cards are from the 1980 "warehouse find" and are re-prints.

TED Z

[EYECOLLECTVINTAGE]

Originally Posted by tedzan

Judging from your scans, and from your "flimsy" feel of them, these two cards are from the 1980 "warehouse find" and are re-prints.

TED Z

Thanks so much for the help.

[tedzan]

For those of you that are new to this debate regarding these cards, check-out this thread that was posted 7 years ago on this forum......

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=92743


TED Z
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[almostdone]

Originally Posted by tedzan

For those of you that are new to this debate regarding these cards, check-out this thread that was posted 7 years ago on this forum......

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=92743


TED Z
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I want to echo this link. Packed full of great info on this set. It helped me tremendously last year finding a Stan Musial for my Musial collection. Thanks to Ted Z and others for the great info helping all of us newbies out.
Drew

[EYECOLLECTVINTAGE]

Originally Posted by tedzan

For those of you that are new to this debate regarding these cards, check-out this thread that was posted 7 years ago on this forum......

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=92743


TED Z
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Wow what a fantastic thread. Amazing work

[rascalsally]

Originally Posted by tedzan

For those of you that are new to this debate regarding these cards, check-out this thread that was posted 7 years ago on this forum......

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=92743


TED Z
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I second that Drew, there really is very little other information on these cards anywhere else. I've spent hours coming back and forth to this old thread over the last 2 months or so. Starting the first day we found a deck of these among my Dads memorabilia that has sat in a box since he passed in the early 80's.
At first I figured, Oh sure they're probably the "wrong" ones. But in using Teds info I realized we did indeed have something. Then to be sure I scanned a few to SGC and then started the grading process with them.
This site and especially Ted's old thread was my only real resource in identifying them. It's why I thanked Ted at the start of this new thread =]

[rascalsally]

Ahhh thank you (again) Ted...then the die cuts may have different depending on the machine used, explaining the difference in the rounding, some being a neater round than others?