Possible 3 Types of Ruth 1928 Harrington's
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Type 1 “ No Quarts Back” The top 2 pictures, the back of the card has no
sentence for "Babe Ruth may be saved for quarts of ice cream" Type 2 “Quarts Back”The middle 2 pictures the back of the card has the sentence for "Babe Ruth may be saved for quarts of ice cream" Type 3 “Apostrophe Ruth”The last 2 pictures same back as Type 2 but the apostrophe before the '(6) on the front. Type 1 & Type 2 have the same border notch lower left side apostrophe can used be for omission of letters or numbers The first 4 pictures or from the internet the last 2 or mine |
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I know nothing about these cards, but looks like three variations to me...
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Now Ruth master set collectors are going to go nuts!! I can barely afford the tax on most nice Ruth's nowadays.
To the OP's point, nice discovery. It's little things like this that help keep collecting ineresting. . |
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And those of us with what I think of as a "Topps variation" mindset, note that the "A" in the word "Also" on the back of the Type 3 “Apostrophe Ruth” is cut off at the top. |
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I would like to find out more about the Type 3 “Apostrophe Ruth” such as, was it an unintentional printer’s flaw with the apostrophe/mark on front. Could it have been used for the promotion of “Save the Ruth cards for quarts of ice cream” for example a certain amount of Ruth cards plus 1 Apostrophe Ruth card or a certain amount of Apostrophe Ruth cards to get the quart of ice cream. Was it when the Ruth cards were turned in , the “ Apostrophe Ruth” would replace those cards given to the Harrington’s in exchange for a quart of ice cream, and the cards turned in would be destroyed.
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I would think they would have all cards on hand to be handed out with each ice cream purchase or redemption. Just like Dairy Queen Team USA baseball cards were handed out with a purchase of the USA helmet sundae.
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Is that how the cards were distributed, at the store with a purchase of ice cream?
If that's the case, with a Ruth card being worth a free ice cream, it seems like they would have less of them, or at least hand them out less frequently. Also, I don't see them replacing your card when you turn it in for your free ice cream, I just see them giving you an ice cream. |
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I think it has nothing having to do with the redemption(s), and I think when cards were redeemed (Ruth for the single, a full set for a gallon) nobody got any cards back in the deal, just ice cream. Am I possibly wrong? Absolutely, but it would make no sense for cards to be returned to the person redeeming them for ice cream. That would mean variations of cards that shopkeepers would have needed to keep track of, and effectively two different supplies of cards used for two different reasons and that's more work than any shopkeeper would care to be involved in, and that's not to mention the possible employees of those shopkeepers, and it's all just a recipe for disaster for the shop inventory. |
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It makes more sense that it is a mark from the print process along with the cut off “A”
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