Babe Ruth Autographed Baseball Thoughts

[Mr. Zipper]

Originally Posted by keithsky

This guy says he is new to the forum and just was asking questions.

Here is a scenario I've seen played out a hundred times on various message boards... maybe it applies to this situation or maybe it doesn't...

A newbie shows up with a "it's been in my family forever" story and "what's it worth?" Meanwhile, to sharp-eyed collectors, the item appears to be a fake of recent vintage.

Why would someone do this? They want to get offline offers and ideally sell the item quickly and privately to another member who hopes to lowball the newbie. A con conning a con.

Maybe that is not the case here. Maybe some folks are too jaded and skeptical. Maybe this has been in his family for 60 years.

But it doesn't appear to be authentic or look like known Ruth period secretarials. So that leaves two possibilities: a forgery of this quality was produced a long time ago or the story is not true.