This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/7/2017
This lot features a vintage Babe Ruth 1928 Candy company Card #1 "King of Them all". The card shows its age with a heavy crease in the lower right corner but remains intact, VG condition. The George H. Ruth Candy Co. was founded in 1926 in direct retaliation against the Curtiss Candy Company for their refusal to compensate Ruth for the use of his name on their "Baby Ruth" candy bars. Curtiss always maintained the candy bar was named not for Ruth but for the daughter of former President Cleveland. However, since Ruth Cleveland died in 1904, seventeen years before the Baby Ruth candy bar was created, their claim seems implausible. The court battle between both companies ensued until 1931 when the ruling went against the George Ruth Candy Co. That ruling denied the George H. Ruth Candy Company the right to trademark its two candies, "Ruth's Home Run Bar" and "Babe Ruth's Own Candy," stating there would be too much confusion among the public if candies named "Baby Ruth" and "Babe Ruth" were allowed to compete against each other. However, one good thing which came about from this candy controversy was a set of six baseball cards, issued in 1928, which if accumulated in complete set form could be redeemed for a real signed Babe Ruth baseball.