Lot # 2: 1924 V122 Willard's Chocolates Sports Champions #5 Babe Ruth (HOF) - SGC EX+ 5.5

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Item was in Auction "Fall, 2024 Premier Auction",
which ran from 11/12/2024 12:00 PM to
11/30/2024 9:00 PM



Particularly scarce 1924 Willard's Canadian-issued card of Babe Ruth.  Graded EX+ 5.5 by SGC, the card labels Ruth as "Home Run Champion," one of just three baseball players issued in this 56-card, blank-backed set (the other two being Ty Cobb and Eddie Collins) that included athletes from many different sports.  As one would expect, Ruth is the key to the issue, one of the more difficult and less Mainstream Ruth cards.  The 1 3/8" x 3 3/8" black and white card features a photo of Ruth at the end of his legendary swing.  The card is sharp and clean, with some mild corner and surface wear reducing the technical grade but not interfering with the aesthetic appeal of the card.  

Babe Ruth is, of course, the key to any set in which he appears; his cards as a rule the most valuable and sought after of their era.  The V122 issue is comparatively scarce - SGC has graded just 28 examples with only four attaining a higher grade than this, and just 66 examples have been graded by PSA and SGC combined.  Compare this with, for example, the popular 1933 Goudey #149 Ruth - as of this writing, PSA and SGC have assessed a total of 1,784 examples of that card! This example is orders of magnitude more scarce and difficult to find, particularly in higher grades.  An outstanding card of Ruth, just the second example of which we have ever offered.

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