View Full Version : Babe Ruth - Really JSA?
Plinvestments
08-19-2014, 05:34 PM
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Babe-Ruth-Baseball-Legend-Autographed-8x10-Photo-Signed-by-Ruth-amp-Wife-Claire-/371121683454?autorefresh=true&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=Vl3nZu2V6F6mu12qj3yGRhm7OB8%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc
Does JSA really think "Mommie" was penned by the Babe?
johnmh71
08-19-2014, 05:39 PM
Read the listing. It was added after the fact.
Plinvestments
08-19-2014, 06:00 PM
Read the listing. It was added after the fact.
Where in the JSA letter does it say that?
Runscott
08-19-2014, 07:18 PM
Give Jimmy a break. How is he expected to have time to compare the word "Mommie" to existing examples of Babe Ruth's handwriting? Sure, we can do it, and it's easy to see that Babe never could have written that, but we have the extra 5 minutes to spend looking for exemplars. If Jimmie did that, he'd have to add another $100 bucks to the authentication price.
jandr272
08-19-2014, 07:59 PM
Where in the JSA letter does it say that?
"The photograph is signed "Babe Ruth + Mommie" in fountain pen, with wife Claire adding the "+ Mommie" portion." per the auction and then the letter says it was penned in his own hand... hmm...
Runscott
08-19-2014, 08:13 PM
"The photograph is signed "Babe Ruth + Mommie" in fountain pen, with wife Claire adding the "+ Mommie" portion." per the auction and then the letter says it was penned in his own hand... hmm...
Kudos to the seller for correcting JSA's error, but again - they've got the extra 5 minutes to check on it.
Shoeless Moe
08-20-2014, 02:01 PM
The bigger questions is why JSA calls this "Ruth walking with gun", shouldn't it be "Ruth walking with wife".
packs
08-20-2014, 05:01 PM
This seems like a pretty benign error to me. Nice piece.
jad22
08-20-2014, 05:20 PM
Low hanging fruit. If they make errors like this, what other errors are they making.
Runscott
08-20-2014, 05:59 PM
but Joe, it's benign.
jad22
08-20-2014, 06:42 PM
but Joe, it's benign.
Correct. Not like they have had errors on something big. Just the little things.
Runscott
08-20-2014, 07:07 PM
Correct. Not like they have had errors on something big. Just the little things.
Perhaps a company name change is in order? e.g-JSBA
jad22
08-21-2014, 11:32 AM
Perhaps a company name change is in order? e.g-JSBA
Signing after death is a trivial error. Right?
Michael B
08-21-2014, 12:31 PM
The bigger questions is why JSA calls this "Ruth walking with gun", shouldn't it be "Ruth walking with wife".
Paul,
It may be picayune grammar, but you are correct. He is walking with is wife and carrying a gun. He cannot walk with a gun as it is an inanimate object and cannot walk.
Runscott
08-21-2014, 03:21 PM
Michael, in the world of TPA's many previously unheard of things are possible.
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