Nov 01, 2016 - Sale 2428

Sale 2428 - Lot 101

Price Realized: $ 2,860
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
RUTH, BABE. Photograph postcard Signed, full-length portrait, showing him in uniform after swinging his bat. Signed in the image, diagonally at upper left. Correspondence side blank. 5 1/2x3 1/2 inches; unusually good condition. Np, nd

Additional Details

Provenance: Edward C. Tillman and, by descent, to present owner.
Edward Charles Tillman (1890-1956) was a dentist practicing in New York during the 1930s and 1940s whose patients included Babe Ruth.