1947 BOND BREAD and its "imposters"....show us your cards ?

[clydepepper]

My only:

1947 Bond Bread - Jackie Robinson.jpg

[abctoo]

Originally Posted by clydepepper

My only:

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Thanks for so quickly posting your Jackie Robinson card. Your heart is in the right place as it expresses the issues with these cards that have caused so many problems. There are several different sets with cards that have the same picture of Robinson as your card. That goes to the heart of the matter many want to resolve. If it's his "rookie" card, just how high does its value go? If it's not, then what's it worth? Perhaps, you're just like me and say it's an early Jackie Robinson card and I'm just glad I have one.

As you know, the card has "square" corners. Cards actually inserted into Bond Bread packages have die-cut (rounded) corners and "white" backs. While all of the Sport Star Subject sets were printed on white cardstock (have "white" backs), not all sets were issued with "round" corners. A few sets had only "square" cornered cards (no die-cut corners).

And then, there's the 1970s-1980s Festberg find of over 3,000 sets of 24 different (including a Jackie Robinson card) with "square" corners, all of which have a "brown tone" back, not a "white" back.

By not showing the back, you've made the point better than i could about the need to see scans of the backs of Bond Bread and Sport Star Subjects cards to help tell them apart.

Please, each of you who has a Bond Bread package insert card and a Sport Star Subjects card, post a scan of the backs side-by-side so that we can see the difference between those two sets. The cards do not have to be of the same player, just from the different sets. The more people who post, the better we all can see the difference.

Robbie, I really do appreciate you posting your card and hope someday you get your Jackie Robinson rookie.

Mike

[abctoo]

On 03-30-2007, a new thread was started on net54 baseball. It is called "WTD 1947 Bond Bread Cards" and has only one posting, which reads:
"Posted By: TONY
Buying 1947 Bond bread Cards
Need Most cards if Graded
Raw cards, need all single prints
prefer NM or better"

People were not thinking about the Sport Star Subjects set as having cards that looked like 1947 Bond Bread cards. I hope the past 13 years since that posting have been lucky for many. During that time, the card grading services have mislabeled many cards as "Bond Bread" ones. Many of the Sport Star Subjects cards in better grades have also been sold as "1947 Bond Bread" cards.

The identification and grading problems still exist.

If anyone has the ability to post a picture of the backs of a 1947 Bond Bread package card and a Sport Star Subjects card along side each other, please do so. Perhaps we can eliminate the misidentification of Bond Bread cards in "NM or better" condition?

Thanks,

Mike

[68Hawk]

Hey Mike,

Don't want you to think that no-one is reading your posts...
My collection is out in Palm Springs and I head out that way in a couple weeks.
I've got a 47' BB Jackie (or so I hope ) out there slabbed by SGC that I can take a photo of back and front and then post.
No comparison Sports Star card unfortunately, but at least another copy you can have an image of for analysis.

All the best,
Daniel