r/whatsthisworth • u/TemporaryEmployee465 • 2d ago

Ty Cobb’s golf tourney prize Likely Solved

My wife found this at a thrift store here in the Bay Area. She was going to melt it down and make some jewelry and I said no way. I did the research and found the archived newspaper talking about this golf tournament. He participated in and this appears to be what he won. No idea how it ended up at a thrift store but the country club is also local.

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u/jellystoma 1d ago

Melt it down. The guy was a racist ahole

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u/BeebleBoxn 1d ago

Times were different. Shouldn't involve the Woke mentality when it comes to Antiques there's collectors out there for every famous person especially Sports Memorabilia.

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u/jellystoma 1d ago

"Times were different" It wasn't ok then either.

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u/BeebleBoxn 1d ago

This isn't the sub for it This is to find out about an item and what it's value is not what you would do with it.

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u/jellystoma 1d ago

There is never a wrong time to call out racists

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u/MojoRisin762 1d ago

He's dead.... get over yourself.

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u/SBNShovelSlayer 1d ago

Thank you for your service.

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u/JaRulesLarynx 1d ago

I don’t think that’s true

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u/Dizzydsmith 1d ago

It’s pretty well documented that he was. I don’t think that’s the discussion for here though. This is a very unique piece of history and this piece really should be in a museum. I think this is easily a 5 figure item.

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u/JaRulesLarynx 1d ago

Also well documented that he wasn’t the monster portrayed in the book/movie. Knowing that I’d think it would make a person feel better about the piece.

Agree 5 figures. Even cooler since it’s a trophy for something unrelated to the reason he is famous. I’m not sure how much that would increase the value. I’d be interested to find out what it’s appraised at.