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Probstein Ted Williams card. Is this original or reprint?

garnettstylegarnettstyle Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭✭
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Never heard of this grading company.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1947-Bond-Bread-Ted-Williams-HOF-Boston-Red-Sox-FGA-9-MINT/362550273964?hash=item5469ae27ac:g:~T0AAOSwkHxcWcvL

IT CAN'T BE A TRUE PLAYOFF UNLESS THE BIG TEN CHAMPIONS ARE INCLUDED

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  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've never heard of FGA either. I didn't know good ol' uncle Rick sold reprints.😉

  • garnettstylegarnettstyle Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭✭
    edited May 4, 2019 4:53PM

    @doubledragon said:
    I've never heard of FGA either. I didn't know good ol' uncle Rick sold reprints.😉

    Its a reprint? He doesn't have it listed as a reprint. He sold a Musial from the same set.

    IT CAN'T BE A TRUE PLAYOFF UNLESS THE BIG TEN CHAMPIONS ARE INCLUDED

  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,435 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's a card (set) that has always spooked me and have stayed away.

    The original cards - "Homogenized" Bond Bread from 1947 were issued with rounded corners. Then at a later date, it's understood that they printed them up in "squared" corners.

    Then in the 80s a large "find" came from a warehouse - I believe in NY - so that you would see ads in SCD for the whole set for a fair price - can't remember - something in the 200 buck range? If I can find an ad, I'll post it later.

    Then, it was my understanding that a large amount were counterfeited in the early 2000s?

    So my feeling was always to steer clear of this issue.

    Mike
  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @garnettstyle said:

    @doubledragon said:
    I've never heard of FGA either. I didn't know good ol' uncle Rick sold reprints.😉

    Its a reprint? He doesn't have it listed as a reprint. He sold a Musial from the same set.

    I don't think it is. I think it is original.

  • ElvisPElvisP Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭

    FGS was around for a while I believe in the '90's.

  • garnettstylegarnettstyle Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭✭

    @Stone193 said:
    That's a card (set) that has always spooked me and have stayed away.

    The original cards - "Homogenized" Bond Bread from 1947 were issued with rounded corners. Then at a later date, it's understood that they printed them up in "squared" corners.

    Then in the 80s a large "find" came from a warehouse - I believe in NY - so that you would see ads in SCD for the whole set for a fair price - can't remember - something in the 200 buck range? If I can find an ad, I'll post it later.

    Then, it was my understanding that a large amount were counterfeited in the early 2000s?

    So my feeling was always to steer clear of this issue.

    If the square versions are from a 80's warehouse find, then I would think they would be real.

    IT CAN'T BE A TRUE PLAYOFF UNLESS THE BIG TEN CHAMPIONS ARE INCLUDED

  • JBrulesJBrules Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Here is a link that should help.

    net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=92743

  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,435 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @garnettstyle said:

    @Stone193 said:
    That's a card (set) that has always spooked me and have stayed away.

    The original cards - "Homogenized" Bond Bread from 1947 were issued with rounded corners. Then at a later date, it's understood that they printed them up in "squared" corners.

    Then in the 80s a large "find" came from a warehouse - I believe in NY - so that you would see ads in SCD for the whole set for a fair price - can't remember - something in the 200 buck range? If I can find an ad, I'll post it later.

    Then, it was my understanding that a large amount were counterfeited in the early 2000s?

    So my feeling was always to steer clear of this issue.

    If the square versions are from a 80's warehouse find, then I would think they would be real.

    The question at the time - I believe - was the fact that the square cards came out after the rounded and some questioned whether those were "actually" reprints - then?

    Everything I'm saying is from memory and some good research might be best.

    Again, some questioned the validity of the 80s "find" - again - were these "later" reprints - sort of like the Star cards - many believe they were reprinted way after they said the plates were destroyed?

    Mike
  • garnettstylegarnettstyle Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭✭

    @JBrules said:
    Here is a link that should help.

    net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=92743

    The Christopher Cross track comes to mind. Got me 'spinning' lol. After reading all that crap, I'm still as confused as I was yesterday :|

    IT CAN'T BE A TRUE PLAYOFF UNLESS THE BIG TEN CHAMPIONS ARE INCLUDED

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I know for a fact, that as far as the Joe Louis Bond Bread card goes, the originals were issued in 1947 with rounded corners, and the square cornered version were issued in 1949.

  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,435 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I said I would post an add for these "square" cards if found an ad?

    Here ya go.

    I remembered 200 bucks or so - pretty close. But, as said, I was always leery of the fact that they could be reprints of a sort?

    Mike
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