Homogenized Bond Bread Cards - Again

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Posted By: Paul

I've been seeing some Homogenized Bond cards on ebay lately that seem to have corners that are TOO round. The roundness is almost perfectly smooth, and is very large. I am wondering if people are now trimming the square ones to make the corners appear round.

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Posted By: Phil Garry

Paul:

You are probably correct. Except for the Jackie Robinson set, all of the legitimate ones that I have seen with "rounded" corners have 2-3 flat edges making up the "round" corner.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

Not commenting specifically about these Bond Breads in particular (as I haven't seen them), but, for round edge cards (1913 National Game, Nap Lajoie Game Cards, etc), if the corners are rounded much differently than the genuine cards that is a reliable sign in and of itself that the card isn't original. Most game card reprints can be identified simply by looking at the corners.

The National Games, Polo Grounds and such were factory die-cut en mass, and the corners are resultingly uniform throughout all the sets and cards. This is as opposed to someone in front of his television scissor cutting corner by corner. In the latter, not only can a corner be different than genuine, but each of the four corners can be different than each other-- proverbial Three Stooges, where they're all misfits and all different.

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

I am considered the Net54 "guru" on this set. I have several ways of determining if these cards are the originals, or the later issue,
or REPRINTS.

Post Front & Back scans and I will identify them.

TED Z

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Posted By: Iggy....

Class in session...

1947 Homogenized Bread Cards 101..

Okay, I bit on one of these...just received it today. I purchased the Mize card, set me back about ~$12, so it will serve as a good learning experience. The card is about 1/16" to 1/8" of an inch bigger then my other 1947 Homogenized cards. The card stock feels thinner; actually, when you hold the back side (the blank side) up to a light source, you can see the Mize image from the other side (this does not happen with my other cards). Finally, the corners definitely were cut with a scissor; and this was obvious (even in the auction pic.), but in my haste, I didn't notice it at the time. On the plus side, the back doesn't have that toning color of the square-cornered reprints.

Hopefully, Ted Z. or another expert will chime in on this one...




-Lovely Day, Iggy...

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

The rounded corners on your Mize card are definitely not original factory die-cut corners.
The picture is lacking the contrast that the original cards have and the fact that it feels thinner than an original,
confirms that this card is a Reprint.

Here are some cards from my original 1947 collection......







TED Z

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Posted By: Harry Wallace (HW)

Ted,

Did the DiMaggio orginally have square corners?

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

A close look at DiMaggio's upper left and lower right corners shows that the die-cut punch
did not provide a clean cut. Of course all these cards came off the printer's press in square
form. Then were cut from (24 or 48 card) sheets and the final operation was to bevel their
corners, in order to fit these cards into the Bond Bread loaf packaging.

Approx. 99% of the cards I have seen, have all four corners perfectly rounded. My DiMaggio
card is an exception.

TED Z