Let’s rehash the Bond Bread controversy.

[Johnphotoman]

Originally Posted by butchie_t

John,

I admire your quest to get to the bottom of this set. I certainly champion your effort as it will be a slog.

Any way I can help, and I am sure it won't be much more than I have already provided, I happy to lend a hand.

Cheers

Butch

Thank you Butch; I will be calling on calling on you soon, I do need to compile the evidence you have put forth so far. I do have some questions for you, as you said it is going to be a long haul. John

[Johnphotoman]

Report number 2. I believe that baseball cards that are fake or forgeries / counterfeits and the 1980s Festberg are good cards to collect. As I said before, they are a part of baseball history. In my opinion they should not be considered less valuable, or less collectible. Wait maybe less valuable, because they are not the originals, originals usually are worth more. But...think about it… they are probably rarer than the cards everybody wants to collect. Probably far less of those out there than any other cards. But we do need to know what we have in our baseball collection, and accurately place them in the category they belong in like the Bond Bread cards.

PS, I am walking back my thoughts on how we can tell the Festberg find by the backs. I understand now that my conclusions came from two less of a population, meaning I did not have enough samples to go by. Nothing has changed my mind. I just want to have more samples to look at and go by. My original opinion came from talking to people over time, and samples that people have said where the real Festberg find. My goal is to have a bigger population of cards to go by. I have eliminated some cards they have been called “Festberg”, because we have enough proof they can not be from the Festberg find. Next up I want to go over how the cards were printed. This could explain what looks to me some misunderstanding in the Ted Z thread. John