1947 Bond Bread Cards - Rounded Corner Question

[kevinlenane]

I have the orig Bond Bread Ted that i am about to get re-graded after I thought it looked low in the SGC holder (it had a number grade below 5 i believe) i bought it in. Notice the "beveled" rounded corners which SGC had no problem with:





However i wanted to ask/mention that the square cards aren't necessarily from the warehouse find. PSA calls that large Teddy an "exhibit" however ive heard of the large square one also referred to as "Premiums" by a dealer at the National who claimed they were sendaway prizes for bond bread customer. Im not sure what the exchange was supposed to be but does anyone know anything about this?

Incidentally for some reason PSA doesnt grade the originals they only grade the "exhibits" though im not sure they even do that any more as the population report looks rather stale.

[Exhibitman]

Oh they're not exhibits. That is just the shorthand way of describing them by size. There is no definitive proof of how they were issued or who issued them. They could have been part of a completely different promotion since the artwork itself was licensed to at least a few different companies.

[toppcat]

This is from memory so bear with me. Like with some of the photographic E and W cards, a pool of pictures would be offered to whoever wanted to issue a card set. I would guess that the pictures were licensed for a period of one year at a time in most cases. Printers (lithographers really) probably varied as there is a wide range of quality among issues. There were quite a few lithographic firms extant into the mid 50's, especially on the East Coast so those are your likely printers in many cases.