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[oldjudge]

Just saw email that some great cards are upcoming in REA from a New England collection, including two Morehouse Baking Ruth rookies. Stuff keeps coming to market.

[theshowandme]

[mrreality68]

Simple Wow

Great Find and Great Win for them getting them

[theshowandme]

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by theshowandme

I see zero past sales on VCP, and this is the only example on either the PSA or SGC pop reports. If there are two, where is the other one?

[tkd]

Beautiful cards! The strong bold print really stands out to me on the front and back.

[oldjudge]

Wonder what grade the second Ruth got as I'm pretty sure both were consigned.

[theshowandme]

Suggest we change the title to “1916 Morehouse Baking Babe Ruth at REA”

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by theshowandme

Suggest we change the title to “1916 Morehouse Baking Babe Ruth at REA”

Or… The canceled collection!!

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Stuff keeps coming to market.

I'm not surprised at what's out there, just at how much money people have to devote to this thing of ours seemingly every week.

As long as quality items get strong prices, it will keep happening, if for no reason other than natural attrition out of the hobby (aka collectors dying or getting old) of many under-the-radar great collections that belong to Boomers who don't do the grading thing (and whose cards are not reflected in the population reports) and who don't post their holdings on chat boards. Their families call the auctioneers when gramps is ready for the home or discorporates, and we get a nice flood of cards.

I attend a lot of non-card-centric collectibles events and one thing that strikes me is how generational the flow of merchandise is. Right now, we are in the middle of the liquidation of the estates of the Greatest Generation and the Korean War era Silent Generation, and the material out there from WWII and immediately after has proliferated over the last few years. I see big caches of photos, postcards and ephemera that was clearly amassed by or generated by servicemen in Europe or Asia. The families see little or no value there, so they blow out the stuff at estate and garage sales, and diligent pickers grab it. Some of those men were the early card collectors so no wonder we are seeing caches of vintage cards emerge.

[e107collector]

I might be wrong, but I think there was only 1 Ruth rookie. They included the same card in 2 different angles in the photo.

Great find!!

[oldjudge]

Tony--there were two Ruth rookies in the group but the second might not have need graded yet.

[oldjudge]

Here is the second

[e107collector]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Here is the second

Jay,

I didn't see that . What a great find!!

I just checked the PSA pop report, and Ruth is listed as a 1 and a 3.5.

[JamesGallo]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Here is the second

So what is the buy in on a ruth rookie these days. Plus Goldin has a 1.5, so that is 3 examples will that impact the market at all.

James Gallo

[Vintageclout]

Originally Posted by e107collector

I might be wrong, but I think there was only 1 Ruth rookie. They included the same card in 2 different angles in the photo.

Great find!!

Tony - there are 2 Ruth’s with the second one going to be a lesser grade. I’ve seen them both.

[4815162342]

That’s incredible.

With two Ruths, brother and sister got both the ball & bat AND the jumprope.

[bozzio37]

Amazing cards - why no ‘MK’ qualifier from PSA for the big, purple ‘Cancelled’ stamp?


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[robertsmithnocure]

Originally Posted by bozzio37

Amazing cards - why no ‘MK’ qualifier from PSA for the big, purple ‘Cancelled’ stamp?

I assume since it was a “factory” stamp. Plus, the PSA label clearly says “Cancelled” on it also, so there should not be much confusion.

Any guesses on where the Ruth will end up?

[babraham]

You guys can fight over the two Ruth's...I'll take the 2.5 Shoeless please.

[brianp-beme]

I will take one of the lower condition common player examples that are serving as the background for the big boys.

But I still will probably have no shot at getting one...commons are likely to be lumped into a bigger lot.

Brian

[ClementeFanOh]

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