Babe Ruth barnstorming card? Real or fantasy?

[Eric72]

The typo is a classic scammer touch.

[Leon]

A common fantasy piece that people have probably lost thousands of dollars on, over the years.
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[packs]

How would the hobby feel if there was a bar that really did print up their own little contemporary cards for free drinks and one featured the Babe?

There are lots of bars by me that have their own drink tokens made up for free drinks. If I ever own a bar I'm going to make my own cards like this and see how the hobby treats them in 100 years.

[Fred]

I know someone that had business cards cards printed with images of Wagner.

It's obvious it's a business card, but it's pretty cool. You have to figure, it's a great way to start a conversation about cards and things like that.

It'd be weird to be an electrician, plumber, handyman or what ever and start a conversation with a client about "hey, got any baseball cards?"

With the business card people may ask about it, then you can step up the conversation about baseball cards or other sports collectibles.

Maye we can start a thread about creating the best looking "fantasy" card.

It's just sad that people create these things with the intent to defraud.

[packs]

Harry Coveleskie had these neat little cards made for his own cafe way back when. It's one of my favorite pieces in my collection:

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by packs

How would the hobby feel if there was a bar that really did print up their own little contemporary cards for free drinks and one featured the Babe?

There are lots of bars by me that have their own drink tokens made up for free drinks. If I ever own a bar I'm going to make my own cards like this and see how the hobby treats them in 100 years.

After I retired I opened a seasonal business as a hobby. I had cards printed up with Ted Williams on one side.

[packs]

Ever see one floating around somewhere?

I do think if you could show definitively that you have some kind of cool little contemporary 1930 Babe Ruth premium like a drink ticket with a picture of him in uniform on it there would be a nice little competitive market for it.

[FrankWakefield]

Illuminate it with a black light and see if it fluoresces. Then let us know if it glowed. That would be a really useful test.


To me, without using the light test, it just doesn't look right.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by packs

Ever see one floating around somewhere? I do think if you could show definitively that you have some kind of cool little contemporary 1930 Babe Ruth premium like a drink ticket with a picture of him in uniform on it there would be a nice little competitive market for it.

"Contemporary" being the all-important operative word here.

[lowpopper]

is this before or after he ate all the hotdogs?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

"Contemporary" being the all-important operative word here.

The issue is going to be the slightest of forensic analysis will show it isn't circa 1930

and packs, here is one like yours but with a different back ..


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