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/Jason_at_Heritage 1d ago

Yeah- don’t melt that down….

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u/TemporaryEmployee465 1d ago

Haha seriously! Question: what would I do to get this appraised?

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u/Jason_at_Heritage 1d ago

If you shoot me an email at jsimonds@ha.com with some pictures and approximate size (looks like it’s slightly bigger than an ash tray?) I’ll have a couple experts chime in and get you an idea of value. Great piece!

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u/NotAThrowaway_11 1d ago

The Rick Harrison of Reddit

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u/swervin_mervyn 1d ago

So, you're saying that it will be valued at $25k, but the best he can do is $100?

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u/8years47weeks 20h ago

$150 and that's really more than he's comfortable paying

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u/swervin_mervyn 20h ago

But he's got to get it polished, and it's going to sit on the shelf for a while.

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u/ParsleyBeneficial123 3h ago

That's 100 cash, 50 in store credit

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u/HoneydewThis6418 1h ago

Usually the other way around.