Babe Ruth card
logger7
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The dealer wasn't sure whether it is authentic, is this worth sending in and what would it be worth?
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I’m no expert, but someone here once pointed out that corners don’t wear evenly so that’s always the first thing I look at with old cards like this. Those corners look too perfectly round and identical to be real wear. Just an opinion, though.
Jim
Here is a Heritage listing I was looking at; this one has a blank back, and another:
https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball-cards/singles-pre-1930-/1928-babe-ruth-candy-co-babe-ruth-2-psa-ex-mt-6/a/50007-80355.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515
https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball-cards/singles-pre-1930-/1928-babe-ruth-candy-babe-ruth-2-psa-ex-mt-6/a/50011-80306.s?ic16=ViewItem-Auction-Archive-PreviousPricesHeritage-081514
Why bother? If you think you are going to outsmart somebody on something you're not very knowledgeable about, that is probably a great way to lose money. If you want the card buy an authentic graded version. If its cheap and feels too good to be true, it probably is. If its expensive run. You may win but you might as well just go to the casino and pick a number on the roulette wheel. You could win that way too.
Be cautious. So a dealer has a 97 year old card that could be worth potentially thousands of dollars...but he won't spend $15 to get it graded/authenticated and make it easier to sell? Odd.
Said perfectly.
I checked on PSA, not sure if they would even grade this card as it may be in the grading excluded list, even so it would run $75 plus all the other costs. So SGC may be the best option, but as others said why take the chance? $125 or so, real upside if real, worthless if not.
Good catch - PSA no longer grading: https://www.psacard.com/pop/baseball-cards/1928/g-ruth-candy-co-no-longer-grading/39732
Jim
Saved me all the cost of sending something if I decided to buy it. Big upside, downside $125.
Wow, that is a lot.
Do they use carbon dating on these at the grading services? What other high tech methods.
Those cards were heavily counterfeited back in the 1970s; that is why PSA refuses to grade them. It was extremely difficult to tell the fakes from the real ones.
Personally, the card shown in the op, looks fake to me.
Steve