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Originally Posted by Mikehallett22
Has anyone tried to grade any of the Festburg cards? The ones with square corners and cream colored backs. It looks like PSA wont grade them at all, and SGC grades the rounded corners and exhibits.
If you have tried grading them, what did SGC say?
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Mikehallett22: Great question. But first let me say- The Festburg cards are on ivory/beige paper stock. The round corner Bond Bread cards, the ones inserted into loaves of Bond Bread are cream in color. My research has shown that the square corner cards circa 1947-are on ivory/beige paper stock, that's including the Festburg cards.
While grading companies don’t grade square cards anymore, many reasons are given as to why. The problem is they are stuck in the past. They are stuck in their old ways, same old same old ways of looking at cards and not taking any new information into account. I believe they do not know what to look for. They can grade the appearance and quality of the card, but will not say anything about the origins of the cards. This is because of past guarding issues. In the past they have given circa dates from 1947-1950, have called them Bond Bread cards to an unknown issues.
I have seen cards that were graded and certified, that are obvious fakes by some of the top grading companies. I believe this is the reason, they are not up to date on what to look for, therefore they just will not grade square corner cards. Maybe just maybe- they were called out on the obvious fakes that they graded over the early years and refuse to grade cards they are not sure about.
Well I say do you homework. I do not use grading companies, for one I hate the slabs they come in: But if you are in it for the money and not the fun…then you want your cards to be graded. And we as collectors want these companies to grade the square corner cards again, this can be done, we just need to set up guidelines. Call them-“Previously called Bond Bread, square corner cards, circa 1940s-1949 and grade appearance and quality of the card.
What we do know about the Bond Bread cards and the look alike squared cornered cards is that both were issued circa 1947, that is the general consensus now: Of course there are fake cards that were reprinted or copied circa 1950 to date. But that is the caveat of those cards, we can tell them apart from the real issues cards in 1947.
I don't understand why most vintage card collectors and Grading Companies remain highly skeptical towards these square corner cards, deeming them little more than fakes. Again yes there are fakes, but to call all square corner cards fakes or some kind of reprint, is wrong.
The problem is that many of these Grading companies claim the square cards are fakes or reprints. Others don't grade Bond Bread at all, because someone could take a square-corned (reprint) and round the corners and try to pass it off as an original.
That last part is total BS, if they did their homework, they would know that the square corner cards are on different paper stock then the round corner cards. If you take a square card and cut the corners…all you have is a square card with rounded corners. No way, that card would not pass off for a Bond Bread card if the card grader did his homework. Now in the past someone might fall for such a thing. But there is no way a trained card grader should be taken in; unless they grade the same old same old way. The information is out there to take in and grade square cornered cards in this age. Why not do so?
Below I show two cards, it’s hard to really see the color difference when posting on a computer screen that's because you do not see the true color of the cards. The first card is a true Bond Bread card, the second is a square corner card: I rounded the corners to look like a Bond Bread card. The backs show the one I rounded is a fake.
The first: A true Bond Bread card, on cream white paper stock. Second card:Fake, squared card, I cornered. On ivory/ beige paper stock. Third card: Bond Bread on left, fake on the right: There is no way a fake square card made to look like a round corner card will pass off as a true Bond Bread card. Fourth card: Bond Bread on bottom. Fake card on top. As you can see, taking a square corner card and rounding the corners will not pass as a Bond Bread card- if you know what to look for. It is best to have a card you know is Bond Bread and use that card to compare other cards too. John
01-23-2025, 08:02 AM
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