Looking for info: Babe Ruth premium ring?
Weiss
Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
Howdy. A detectorist found this recently and was asking for information about it. I've seen similiar rings online and on eBay, but nothing that is an exact match. Anyone recognize it?
We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
--Severian the Lame
--Severian the Lame
0
Comments
This may be a description of your ring -
The promotion obviously worked very well for Muffets, Babe Ruth Muffets since the company continued offering the gifts in 1935 and 1936. So well, in fact, that other Quaker companies such as Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice began offering the ring and other baseball gifts with box tops from its cereals. Unfortunately, the gold plated ring was generic in nature, with no mention of Ruth anywhere to be found. Pictured elsewhere in the Overstreet Toy Ring Price Guide, the ring has a baseball on the front and an embossed glove between crossed bats on each side. The same model ring with various team names etched on the baseballs were sold at ballparks throughout America. The only known Major League rings bear the names of the Yankees, Giants, and Dodgers, New York’s three Major League teams at the time. The rings with the team designations are more valuable than the Ruth ring because so many less were manufactured. There’s no doubt, however, that if "The Sultan of Swat"’s name appeared on the original ring, it would really command top dollar.
Toy Ring Guide - Rare Baseball Rings