Ruth Card

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by drc

1933 Goudey Ruths are on the list of cards I tell people to be wary of buying online unless it's graded. Though that's due to the proliferation of fakes.

Agreed. I always thought Goudeys were super-simple to i.d. as real or fake...until I picked up a yellow portrait WWG Ruth. It looked different from Goudeys in many respects, and even different from other WWG cards I had handled - gloss, ink, registration, paper quality. The only thing that looked totally 'right' was the card thickness and the typical 'bleed through' that can't be forged.

I sent it to SGC and they confirmed it was real.