Possible 3 Types of Ruth 1928 Harrington's

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

[doug.goodman]

I know nothing about these cards, but looks like three variations to me...

[Leon]

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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[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by Leon

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 interesting.
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I LOVE this kind of stuff.

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.

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

I LOVE this kind of stuff.

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.

I noticed that too with the cut off A in Also , it’s consistent with the other graded “Apostrophe Ruth’s” that I have seen online.

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.