Please help, fake or real Babe Ruth

[martin neal]

A friend of mine bought both the wrapper and the 6 Ruth cards from a person in Florida about 6 years ago. After posting on Net 54, it was decided that they were fake (definately the cards). The wrapper was on wax paper and I was amazed at what some scammers would do to sell a fake. Watch out for the cards in TPG holders as well as another friend and board member purchased one in which the original was removed and one of the fake cards was inserted into the cracked holder.
On this wrapper , it appears that the jackass tried to remove the "7" and the damaged "H".

[HistoricNewspapers]

What was the shape of the candy inside?

Would there be creases in a similar spot if they were all folded around the same candy?

Or were these non used wrappers that were found flat and just worn heavily?

[Bugsy]

Another damaged H.

http://www.legendaryauctions.com/Lot...archvalue=ruth bar&page=0&sortby=0&displayby=2&lotsperpage=50&category=1&seo=1928-Babe-Ruth-%22Ruth

[7nohitter]

good catch

[steve B]

The fonts are also slightly different. On one the crossbar of the Hs in most of the words are in the center, while the other verion the crossbars are near the top of the letter.

Steve B

[smulvihill]

2 more from heritage auctions

http://historical.ha.com/c/item.zx?s...083&lotNo=3133

http://sports.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleN...28&lotNo=43164

[Bugsy]

Originally Posted by Bugsy

Another damaged H.

http://www.legendaryauctions.com/Lot...archvalue=ruth bar&page=0&sortby=0&displayby=2&lotsperpage=50&category=1&seo=1928-Babe-Ruth-%22Ruth

Interesting that this was withdrawn.

[bjcunningham]

Does Leon's wrapper have a - "baseball." - at the end of the sentence, but the other's don't? Or is that just the scans? Just curious.

[PhilNap]

With the two wrappers in the current SCP auction (one with the all too common obscured middle initial "H" and one with the "H" intact), it has caused me to look even closer at these wrappers.

It seems that all of the wrappers with the obscured "H" have a much sharper font style. I would describe it as more of a modern computer generated font. This is most pronounced in the text below the Babe's image where it reads "Babe Ruth's Own Candy". And upon closer look, it is evident in all of the text (both in the area with the orange background and in the white border). The wrappers with the "H" have more of a rounded hand drawn style of text. I don't know if this version has been reproduced but in my opinion the missing "H" and the sharper font are tell tale signs to stay away.

[Mr. Zipper]

Also note that in lot 754, the quote marks around Babe Ruth's (at top of label) are of different style and spacing relative to the letters. The same with the apostrophe.

[PhilNap]

Originally Posted by PhilNap

With the two wrappers in the current SCP auction (one with the all too common obscured middle initial "H" and one with the "H" intact), it has caused me to look even closer at these wrappers.

It seems that all of the wrappers with the obscured "H" have a much sharper font style. I would describe it as more of a modern computer generated font. This is most pronounced in the text below the Babe's image where it reads "Babe Ruth's Own Candy". And upon closer look, it is evident in all of the text (both in the area with the orange background and in the white border). The wrappers with the "H" have more of a rounded hand drawn style of text. I don't know if this version has been reproduced but in my opinion the missing "H" and the sharper font are tell tale signs to stay away.

It seems that people may be recognizing . . .

Prices Realized with BP:

Lot 752 - $1,355.00
Lot 744 - $290.00 (also included a 1934 Goudey wrapper)