1921 Koester Ruth vs. 1922 W575-1 Ruth

Originally Posted by Baseball Rarities

Some have said that the stock is a bit different, but the only way that I know is of the Ruth came as part of a Koester set or collection of the cards.

Yes. Would seem to be very difficult to tell the difference in the card stock unless you had an example of each in-hand. I've wondered if its possible that these Koester Ruth's are nothing more than mislabeled W575-1's

[LincolnVT]

Great question. I really like that the W-575 set has so many Ruth variations. Not sure how one could distinguish between the W-575 George Ruth variation and the Koester bread Ruth. My understanding is that the Koester cards were issued as a complete set...I think someone on this forum has the set still in tact as issued from Koester. Maybe the graded Koester Ruth cards were submitted with other cards that appear in the Koester set and not the W-575 set?

[Cmount76]

One is clearly bigger than the other.

Originally Posted by Cmount76

One is clearly bigger than the other.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Gobucsmagic74

Maybe they should have put hand cut on the label.


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