Anyone know what this is ?

[baberuthfan]

What is this card?? They take paper written by Ruth and cut it up ??? I’m assuming it is in Ruth handwriting.

 

[banjar]

Sheesh. I can't say I'm in favor of these kinds of cards. And Ebay is just flooded with them right now. Yuck!

 

[doniceage]

It is far from the Babe Handwriting. You just have a relic from that time period and many of them seem to be newspaper, letter, etc. A cool concept but as you say if it was Ruth writing at all the whole piece would more than likely not be cut up . Enjoy the stuff for what it is which many think is junk but one man junk is another man treasure. If your a pc guy it a perfect way to round out your collection but please never think that it is anything from Ruth.

 

[finestkind]

Sheesh. I can't say I'm in favor of these kinds of cards. And Ebay is just flooded with them right now. Yuck!

Too me. Those kinds of cards are garbage. I don't like seeing vintage stuff cut up

 

[mrmopar]

"Time period relics that were attributed to the subject". Nice and vague, like many of the relic cards that came before the newest issues. As I read this, it could be a sports page from when he played but not even necessarily be about him, a letter written about him, a sports related book or any other 1910s-30s tangent item cut up and stuck into a card.

I am not a fan, but have some items that are not far off of this. I added them for what they were and never paid much. Sadly, I expect you won't likely often find bargain Ruth cards like this but I would not feel comfortable paying more that a similarly scarce insert or parallel Ruth /99. The relic in this is essentially worthless as it's presented, so you have to really want to add something like this to a collection and then it makes sense because it makes you happy to add it.