Let’s rehash the Bond Bread controversy.

[Johnphotoman]

I do remember there was a letter that said about how many cards there where, I will look to see if I have it, and yes you can still get these cards at a lower price, that is our hobby for you. Any and all cards that come from the 1940-50, should come at a premium, no matter when they were made available for sale. But that is good for us in one way, but for those who collect for profit - must be going out of their mind, these cards are the first cards printed after World War II, they should be bringing premium and very high premiums, but I for one I'm glad they are not. I do not have big pockets. But I think that should sell for more. John

[ullmandds]

part of the problem is many sellers sell these as "bond" bread examples and as a result there is a lot of confusion regarding them. Funny I only seem to see the big names from the set...I wonder where all the lesser named cards are????

Originally Posted by Johnphotoman

I do remember there was a letter that said about how many cards there where, I will look to see if I have it, and yes you can still get these cards at a lower price, that is our hobby for you. Any and all cards that come from the 1940-50, should come at a premium, no matter when they were made available for sale. But that is good for us in one way, but for those who collect for profit - must be going out of their mind, these cards are the first cards printed after World War II, they should be bringing premium and very high premiums, but I for one I'm glad they are not. I do not have big pockets. But I think that should sell for more. John

[Johnphotoman]

It does appear that many of the cards you see for sale are from the 24 set, because the 24 set did print the bigger names, and not many from the 44 card set.
But it is hard to tell what set a card came from, many have the exact same image on them. I will dig up the list, unless someone can post the list for the 44 card set and the 24 card set. And yes that is the point not all cards are Bond Bread that claim to be. They are 1947-49, but cannot be called Bond Bread, again unless you have proof they came from Bond Bread loaves of bread. The hobby does - mislabel many cards. John

[Johnphotoman]

1947 Bond Bread Set Checklist - All are baseball players with the exception of the four boxers as noted below.

Rex Barney
Yogi Berra
Ewell Blackwell
Lou Boudreau
Ralph Branca
Harry Brecheen
Primo Carnera
Marcel Cerdan
Dom DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio
Bobby Doerr
Bruce Edwards
Bob Elliott
Del Ennis
Bob Feller
Carl Furillo
Joe Gordon
Sid Gordon
Joe Hatten
Gil Hodges
Tommy Holmes
Larry Jansen
Sheldon Jones
Eddie Joost
Charlie Keller
Ken Keltner
Buddy Kerr
Ralph Kiner
Jake LaMotta
Johnny Lindell
Whitey Lockman
Joe Louis
Willard Marshall
Johnny Mize
Stan Musial
Andy Pafko
Johnny Pesky
Pee Wee Reese
Phil Rizzuto
Aaron Robinson
Jackie Robinson
Johnny Sain
Enos Slaughter
Vern Stephens
George Tebbetts
Bobby Thomson
Johnny Vander Meer
Ted Williams

Looking for the list of 24.