1928 George Ruth Candy Cards (Set of 6)

[Clutch-Hitter]

*****I'd only buy a card with a small card number from a trusted source. It would have to be photo-engraved, with the correctly colored back, and no fluorescing under the black light. If I owned one, I'd authenticate my own like we did earlier in this thread and print my own authentication sheet with the findings.*****
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These Ruth Candy cards are rare, therefore, there are not enough images to say for sure, but based on the images I've found (Please attach your Ruth Candy card to this thread if you have one so we can figure this out),

1. Cleveland used white paper, images both black and white and sepia, with sepia images resulting in a slight beige appearance.

2. San Francisco used brownish paper with black and white images, which caused the black and white image to be beig-ish and somewhat sepia colored (don't have one so it's hard to tell

Therefore, blank backs can be correlated with a particular city if this is correct:


Cleveland's white paper:














San Francisco's brownish paper:

[glchen]

Kind of a side topic, but shows that the image on the #2 of the George Ruth Candy set was re-used in the Tabacalera set.

[Clutch-Hitter]

Gary, you have a great Ruth collection, and that one is nice.
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While searching for Ruth Candy cards, I came across numerous fakes that were sold by some auction house type site called Coach's Corner, so y'all may want to be very cautious there with anything.

[Clutch-Hitter]

The guy I mentioned with the Fro Joy set, who also has a neighbor with two Fro Joy sets, let me use images of his BVG graded George Ruth Candy #4. He's sending me a scan of the back later today, but here's a front scan, front and back pictures, and a re-post of scans of my #4 card.

[Clutch-Hitter]

Here's his BVG graded #4 with the back scan. And by the way, he has a complete set of these, all of which are sepia with blank backs. All but one is BVG graded, while the other is GAI:

[EvilKing00]

Not sure you guys are still in this thread, but here is a card I have. Its got the SF ad on the back.

[Clutch-Hitter]

Evilking, sorry, it's fake

[Clutch-Hitter]

Mr. McKee,

Memory Lane is selling this blank back version of Ruth kissing a child. This is fake in you opinion?

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com/viewi...id=98593452949

Item #: 350705843279