1947 Bond Bread questions

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Posted By: Howie

Square cornered cards were known about prior to the Festberg find. They were known as W571, and described as coming with round or square corners in the mid-1970's Sports Collectors's Bible and the Stirling Sports Card Catalog D5002.

The Festberg find contained original individual square cornered cards that came directly from the bread company. There were no uncut sheets. There were no handcut cards. The only thing wrong with the cards was there was a large QUANTITY of them. They flooded the market, and sets became common and cheap.

There was never any need to reprint these because originals were plentiful and cheap. That is until the Harrisburg Grading Room Find cards surfaced in the recent years. IN HAND COMPARISON of an original card against an HGRF card shows a completely different paper stock and print quality. SCD was instrumental in alerting its readers of these, but when they changed their description in their price guide to lump the Festberg find cards in with the HGRF cards, they managed to cause unnecessary confusion with obvious fakes and original cards.

Real grading companies should be grading the original cards. This includes cards with roundish looking corners and squared cornered ones too, like the ones in the Festberg find. But they won't until SCD sets the story straight in their price guide.