Babe Ruth barnstorming card? Real or fantasy?

[Hankphenom]

Yes, it's from the "Joe Daly's Tavern" issue. Seriously, clever of them to use an antique typewriter font for the offer on the back, otherwise it's just another in the long line of yellowed fakes out of Ohio. That makes me only 99&9/10% certain it's a fake rather than 100%. Also, I don't think I've seen the photo before, which might knock it down to 99&8/10%. Where did you get it? I'm guessing eBay or Etsy or such.

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

Yes, it's from the "Joe Daly's Tavern" issue. Seriously, clever of them to use an antique typewriter font for the offer on the back, otherwise it's just another in the long line of yellowed fakes out of Ohio. That makes me only 99&9/10% certain it's a fake rather than 100%. Also, I don't think I've seen the photo before, which might knock it down to 99&8/10%. Where did you get it? I'm guessing eBay or Etsy or such.

Personally, I always feel that typewriter font is more so a dead giveaway for a fake. Look at how each line is leaning differently which shows the card was manually placed for each line due to the size. For a small business owner it would have taken hours upon hours to complete just a small batch versus buying an inexpensive hand stamp to do a pile in a couple minutes. That and using the bicolor accounting ribbon which means a little shop that would rarely need red only gets half the use of a ribbon as they can’t flip it over for additional runs. Anything advertising based with hand type is suspect for me immediately.

[ctownboy]

I also love when these scammers put the name and address of an establishment selling alcohol on the back of the card WHEN PROHIBITION WAS STILL GOING ON.

If this picture was from 1931 and Prohibition ended in 1933 then this place was just ASKING to be raided if they were giving out cards like this.

David

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by ctownboy

I also love when these scammers put the name and address of an establishment selling alcohol on the back of the card WHEN PROHIBITION WAS STILL GOING ON. If this picture was from 1931 and Prohibition ended in 1933 then this place was just ASKING to be raided if they were giving out cards like this. David

The picture, of course, could have been used anytime after 1931, including long after prohibition had ended.

[Econteachert205]

There is no Plymouth Rhode Island to my knowledge.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by Econteachert205

There is no Plymouth Rhode Island to my knowledge.

Oops!

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by JustinD

Personally, I always feel that typewriter font is more so a dead giveaway for a fake. Look at how each line is leaning differently which shows the card was manually placed for each line due to the size. For a small business owner it would have taken hours upon hours to complete just a small batch versus buying an inexpensive hand stamp to do a pile in a couple minutes. That and using the bicolor accounting ribbon which means a little shop that would rarely need red only gets half the use of a ribbon as they can’t flip it over for additional runs. Anything advertising based with hand type is suspect for me immediately.

I guess, but I'm not sure cranking out 100 of these for the owner to give out would take hours and hours of typing, more like a couple hours if you knew your way around a typewriter. Under this kind of circumstance, of course, no matter how long it took or when it was made, the card would never be regarded as a legitimate issue to be catalogued, etc., but merely a local fantasy promo card.