1923 Ruth Exhibit - Lipset Auction

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Posted By: Jim Chanin

You are talking about the card that I have up for auction with Lew Lipset.

I have been following exhibit cards for many years including nearly every ebay listing since 1999. I have complete sets for 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1928, and Sets 81-83 issued between 1927 and 1929. I look for exhbit cards almost every day on ebay and have for years.

I have never seen any other type of card that purports to be a 1923 Ruth Exhibit card other than the one listed for auction with Lew Lipset. I have read all the arguments that this is not a 1923 card. All of them fail to account for the fact that no other card has been issued that ANYONE claims is a 1923 Ruth Exhibit card and experts back for over 30 years claim this is in fact that card.

As for the frequent sightings of this card, I would challenge anyone to show me who in fact bought the card and who in fact owns it. Where are the owners of all these 1923 Ruth Exhibit Cards???? The fact is they do not exist because the card is very rare. I have seen exactly three of these cards up for auction--2 with Lew Lipset and 1 with ebay. It is very likely that two of these cards are the same card.

Even if there were 10 1923 Ruth Exhibit cards (which is extremely optomistic and unproven), that is only a fraction of the number of Honus Wagner cards, Ty Cobb backs etc. Moreover, how do you account for the fact that lifelong exhibit card collectors like McPherson, Lerner, Scharf and others have never owned this card?

You are all entitled to your free speech rights and I respect that. However,
several of the comments here have unfairly characterized this card and probably all this gossip has cost me unfairly. I have 100% approval rating on over 1000 different ebay transactions and would never sell a card that I believed was not fairly represented.