Fresh To Market 1916 M101-5 Blank Back Babe Ruth Rookie Card PSA 3

[notfast]

They have 3d printed inserts for cards like this now. This is embarrassing from PSA.

[Joe Hunter]

Definitely not a good look for PSA.

[brianp-beme]

Just let me pop the side of the case a few times on the kitchen counter and I will have that Babe temporarily centered within its PSA coffin.

Brian

[darwinbulldog]

So much for "Buy the card, not the holder."

[SAllen2556]

"Few of Babe Ruth’s rookie cards have such a complete story of their provenance"


Truly curious - does the provenance really matter as long as the card is real?

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by SAllen2556

"Few of Babe Ruth’s rookie cards have such a complete story of their provenance"


Truly curious - does the provenance really matter as long as the card is real?

If it's meaningful it matters. There are more stories than one could imagine of common $100 items owned by somebody famous or were somewhere important that makes the items worth exorbitant amounts. For example, a wooden deck chair from the tiranic, its provenance turns it from a $100 chair into $100,000.

[nolemmings]

I would be very interested in learning more about the provenance, mostly because m101-5 blank- back distribution remains mysterious. There is little or no known advertising for these cards, other than the Chicago Examiner March-April, 1916 ads that offered the entire set for 15 cents. The OP says the original owner had a near-complete set as a teenager, yet I have not seen any ads for collecting them piecemeal or in groups, as is the case with m101-4 and the advertising backs for both sets, so how does one amass a near-set? Perhaps we can learn more, such as how many are in the near set and which cards are missing? Are the remaining cards headed for auction? Finally, where was the family living in 1916--maybe that can give clues as to how the cards were available.

[Vintagedeputy]

Originally Posted by darwinbulldog

So much for "Buy the card, not the holder."

When the card can slide around in a shitty slab and possibly be damaged, you are still buying the card and not the holder. That 3 can be a 1 in minutes.

[Beercan collector]

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[Leon]

Originally Posted by Beercan collector

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Is that photoshopped or fixed (corner tapped LOL) ?

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by Beercan collector

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Congrats!