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/TemporaryEmployee465 1d ago

Thanks all! I may just reach out to Heritage!

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u/Jason_at_Heritage 1d ago

Hey there- my name is Jason Simonds from Heritage Auctions, I am the Sports Consignment Director here in NYC. This thing is amazing. Don’t melt down a trophy that Ty Cobb won. If you shoot me an email with some pictures to jsimonds@ha.com I will ask a couple experts and get you an appraisal on this for free. If you choose to auction, I would be happy to include this in an upcoming Catalog Sale. A beautiful piece.

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u/Hairy_Transition6901 1d ago

lol'd at "Don’t melt down a trophy that Ty Cobb won"