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1947 Bond Bread Jackie Robinson Portrait Facsimile Signature SGC 5

 

The victim of some confusion among collectors and price guide archivists over the years, this Bond Bread set (Homogenized Bond in some references, both being correct) featuring black and white cards with rounded corners, was issued in 1947 and featured 44 baseball players and 4 boxers. Sometimes confused with the 13 card Bond Bread set of Jackie Robinson cards of the same era, the set in question here was printed on thin cardboard and seemingly distributed via several different channels. Indeed the American Card Catalog has given it two designations: D305 and W571. Considering it is one of the first postwar sets and given that it features Jackie Robinson in his rookie season with Brooklyn, the set has a fair bit of historical gravitas despite somewhat nebulous origins and distribution.

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Uploaded on October 13, 2021
Taken on October 5, 2020