1911-14 D304 Butter Krust Bread Set and Checklist

Posted on September 14, 2016 by Pre-War Cards

‘It’s In The Details’

Title	D304 Butter Krust Bread
Year	1911-14
Size	1 3/4″ x 2 1/2″
Images	Color
Type	Bakery
Number in Set	25

1911-14 D304 Butter Krust Bread Overview

Butter Krust.jpg d304-01-baker While the D304 set is generally characterized as the General Baking Company set, theirs are hardly the only advertising backs on this issue. In all, five backs, including General Baking, Brunners, Butter Krust, Martens Bakery, and Weber Bakery distributed these cards as well.

The fronts of the cards across the various sets were all the same. They featured color lithographs of players and like other issues of the same era, had a white border with the player’s name printed at the bottom.

The Butter Krust Bread cards can be differentiated by the advertisement on the back. These state at the top, “Eat Butter Krust Bread fresh every morning.” The backs also add that one of these cards was wrapped with each loaf of that brand of bread and that there were 25 in the set.

It should be noted that some cards in the D304 series have the team name blacked out. That was likely to denote players that changed teams during the time period the cards were printed. Their new teams are not printed but by blacking out the old teams, the cards were made a bit more current.

In terms of rarity, Weber Bakery, Butter Krust, and Martens are easily the most difficult to find. Brunners is by far the most common.

1911-14 D304 Butter Krust Bread Checklist

While 25 cards are advertised in this set, all 25 have not been discovered/verified to date. However, here is the list of all 25 cards in the D304 series across all brands.

Only two (Brunners and Butter Krust) backs advertised 25 cards in their set. Brunners is known to have all 25 and I believe that 25 likely exist with Butter Krust backs as well.