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Posted By: <b>cmoking</b><p>This was a cool card that just sold on ebay, .<a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8777112481" target="_blank">a 1928 R315 Babe Ruth PSA 7</a> <br /><br />Can anyone provide info on this issue? Who produced it, how tough is it? I see the specs on oldcardboard.com, but there isn't a checklist.

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Posted By: <b>fkw</b><p>R315's are found in the 2006 SCD page 319.<br /><br />They are similar to Exhibit cards but the stock is thinner. Postcard sized anonymous cards issued from 1929-30. 46 in the set. <br /><br />Not rare at all.

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Posted By: <b>cmoking</b><p>Were they issued with any products (like gum)?<br />

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Posted By: <b>Mark Tylicki</b><p>I was watching those auctions myself - sharp looking cards. But the set concerns me a little because of the different cuts/colors/paper stock/sizes I've found on some of the cards.<br /><br />In the past couple of years I've monitored the Roger Hornsby. The card comes with several variations (fakes?). Here are just a few...<br /><br />White w/ caption and no cross on face:<br /><img src="http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/rustywilly/11929300.jpg"><br /><br />White w/ no caption and cross on face:<br /><img src="http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/rustywilly/31278705.jpg"><br /><br />White w/ no caption and no cross on face:<br /><img src="http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/rustywilly/31492530.jpg"><br /><br />Yellow w/ caption and cross on face:<br /><img src="http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/rustywilly/8145388-154.jpg"><br /><br />Are these all real?<br /><br />-Mark<br><br>------------------------------<br />MY COLLECTION: <a href="http://www.rustywilly.com/MYCOLLECTION.htm" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.rustywilly.com/MYCOLLECTION.htm</a>

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>It's well known that these came in 4 different print variations. I think all are real Mark...but I too don't like the way they were hand cut? The first ones I ever got, and still have, I questioned big time. The seller exuded confidence that they were good and I kept them. Very miscut though....(at least mine are)....<br /><br />edited for stupid spelling

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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>Digital but UNEDITED checklist. This is not the checklist that will finally appear on our site, but this will help at least<br /><br /><a href="http://www.blacksoxfan.com/files/r315.xls">R315 Checklist</a><br /><br />Hope this helps.

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Posted By: <b>cmoking</b><p>Thanks for the checklist.<br /><br />Mark - what is that cross? The scan almost looks like they are creases, but I know they aren't. Are they faint white lines on the card?

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Posted By: <b>Todd Schultz</b><p>There likely were scratches on the printing plate, but as there were 4 different printings, it appears that some were printed before the scratch. Similarly, there was a large, almost thumb-print like blotch smack in the middle of the Dazzy Vance card, although I'm happy to say that I landed the PSA 9 Vance tonight that somehow lacks that blotch--the first in the 35-40 Vance's I've seen that was "clean".

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Posted By: <b>cmoking</b><p>nice pickup. Looks like an affordable set even in NM-MT to MINT condition. Well, at least compared to other sets in the same era.<br />

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Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>but the set does have a Lefty O'Doul rookie card (if you don't count several Zeenuts). I have a few. Not bad items but cuts are all over the place.