Please help, fake or real Babe Ruth

[Bugsy]

REA had a nice example a few years ago (has the 7):

http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/...21.html#photos

[earlywynnfan]

Originally Posted by Bugsy

REA had a nice example a few years ago (has the 7):

http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/...21.html#photos

It also has a perfect 'H'. I admit, when I first looked at these I wondered if the first was a copy of the Leon's. If someone finds more examples of the fakes, I wonder if they all have this? Maybe Leon can trace the chain back and see if someone unscrupulous once owned his.

Ken
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[Bugsy]

Could there be a less sinister explanation for the H? I bought this one from Leon and it also has the H. damage (I have never questioned its authenticity). I know that there are a lot of fakes out there, but I also have to wonder if there was a production flaw or, according to the REA write-up, many of these came from the same find. If there were stored together, they could have been damaged in a similar way. Any thoughts?

[HBroll]

I bought this Ruth candy wrapper about 8 years ago and it is made out of wax type paper. It is also missing the "H" like the others except for the one in the REA auction.

[BrandonG]

Something is smelling fishy here. This is way too much of a coincidence. has anyone ever seen one actually wrapped around the candy? I just think it's too precise of a location for the size of the wrapper, for the candy to wear it down in the same spot. If the original was missing the H, all copies would too, it's easy to wear it down more or less on each of them differently so they look slightly different. As for a comment made about wrinkle lines being different, that wouldn't matter if you are aging it by creasing them differently.

Just an outside perspective, I am nowhere near an expert in this area, but I don't think print wax paper is impossible to find.

[PhilNap]

Here's another. "H" intact but no "7"" The alignment of the lettering on this one seems to match the REA example while the lettering on the others seem to align differently. Could there have been different printings with the typesets aligned differently?

[PhilNap]

Here's an example of what I mean by the different print alignment. Not saying one version is real and the other is fake. I wish I knew. It's something I have wondered about for a while.