Ruth card opinion

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Posted By: Kevin S

Can anyone give an opinion on this card, real or reprint
thanx for all the info guys!-Kevin

thanx-Kevin

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Posted By: John S

The front image looks too grainy. The reverse usually has a uniform faint red tint within the borders of the card. Your reverse looks splotchy, an effect that I have never observed before. The borders on the front of the card also appear too narrow and the bottom edge looks to have been hand-trimmed.

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Posted By: jay behrens

The card doesn't look right. Picture looks fuzzy and the color of the stock looks wrong, which just might be your scanner. Unless a Goudey is slabbed, I am leery of any '33 Goudey doesn't have the wet sheet transfer of red on the back of the card.

If the card isnt yours, get the owner to slab the card if you are thinking of buying. If it's yours get the card slabbed. The price difference between raw and slabbed Ruth's is monsterous, but unless you've got cash to burn, buying a raw Ruth isn't worth it unless you know how to tell a real Goudey when you have it in your hands.

Jay

I'm incompetent at being incontenent.

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Posted By: Mark

How about this one?
http://cgi.ebay.com/1932-US-CARAMEL-32-BABE-RUTH-NEW-YORK-YANKEES-GD-GD-VG_W0QQitemZ8717197589QQcategoryZ86847QQssPageName ZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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Posted By: Cat

The tip off on the Goudey is the paper. The yellowish tint to it is very common for known reprints/fakes. The card above, because it is being sold by Kit Young cards, is legit.

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Posted By: identify7

Sometimes it is difficult to ignore the feedback and return policy. 99.9% with >10,000 positives just don't come easily.


Edited to add:

I guess that is >10,000 different positives, > 30,000 overall.

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Posted By: zach

I saw the goudey on ebay....fake for sure. It just doesn't look right and has the reprint feel and look to it.