Let’s rehash the Bond Bread controversy.

[Johnphotoman]

Thank you Pat R, great work as usual. The BCS letter from butchie_t and
CardPadre and now this newspaper clipping sure proves Staley Apfelbaum, president of BCS, was a hustler and a conman. Although he was good at persuading people into believing something that is not true, there is good news for people who brought cards from BCS:

You can trust that what you have are not fake, he may have tricked you into buying the cards for more money than the cards were worth at the time. That's the con, or deception; That was the hustler in him. Yes he did embellish the truth about the cards, even to the point where he changed his own story to hustler and con people into buying cards from BCS.

The good news is most of his story is true, as I said, he embellished the truth. Stop and think, all good conman use the truth to deceive. I look at it like this; it is like buying a car, the salesman told you white lies to sell you a car, all to get you to pay more money then you could have paid somewhere else, the car is still the same car, you just paid more money then you could have.

Comparing the letters from BCS and the newspaper clipping facts:

All three say the cards are from 1947, we have proof of this, in fact they could have been out circa 1940s.
The cards offered were the ones we call Bond Bread W571, square corned cards type.
The cards were found in a warehouse, yes that is true.
The widow of the person who found the cards put them up for sale circa 1980s. Yes, this is true.
In the warehouse find, there were 48 cards to a set.
BCS only sold half the sets, a 24 card set.

Not a fact- Apfelbaum only saw one complete set, and that set was piece together. There were many complete sets around.
Not a fact-the cards were included in every loaves of bread, the square cut cards were never put in Bond Bread, in fact have nothing to do with Bond Bread.
Apfelbaum said: it was a Real estate broker who found the cards, who owned a former Bond Bread Warehouse, near the Brooklyn Waterfront.
Apfelbaum said: a real estate agent came across the cards and brought them all, notice this person came across the cards, he did not own a warehouse that once belonged to Bond Bread.
Apfelbaum said: A famous collector discovered the cards in a warehouse, and snatched up all the cards.

The joke is on Apfelbaum, because you brought the W571 cards from him, you own a piece of baseball history, and you have a story to tell how you received your cards. I would be more than happy to have brought cards from BCS. If you were one of the people who keep these cards my hat goes off to you. You have what many of us, cannot, yes we can own the W571 cards but not from BCS, that have their own baseball history along with general baseball card history from the W571 card set. John