Posted By:
Hal LewisThere was talk on the "1949 Leaf" thread about several cards from the 1947 Bond Bread set that might be considered "rookie cards" by some collectors.
Can some of you gurus please answer these questions for a guy who knows nothing much about the set:
1) Where was "Bond Bread" sold? Was this a "local" issue only sold in a tiny market...or was Bond Bread sold all across the country??
2) Are the backs of these cards blank...or more specifically, do they have anything at all that definitively dates them to 1947 (such as the stats from 1946, etc.)??
3) Assuming the backs cannot date the cards, what is it about the cards that allows ANYONE to date them back to 1947? Are their players on teams for whom they no longer played in 1948??
4) Jackie Robinson debuted on opening day of 1947 (April 15)... so the cards must have been printed some time later than this in 1947 since the set includes Robinson in his Dodger blues. IN FACT, there is an entire SUBSET in the Bond Bread set that features SEVERAL pictures of Jackie Robinson doing things that happened during the 1947 season. Again, WHY is this set dated to 1947 (presumably late-1947) instead of 1948 or 1949??
5) How long did Bond Bread exist? There is only ONE set of these cards... and surely they sold bread for more than one year...so hopefully someone can give us some FACTS to help date this set for certain.
**Hopefully this set isn't dated 1947 just because Mr. Lemke once thought he heard someone opine that it was out of his distant childhood memory. 