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Lot 661
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Lot Number: 661
Description: Significant fielder's glove attributed to Ty Cobb c.1925. High quality RHT fielder's glove with buckle back. Glove shows evident usage with interior pocket soiling and wear to the padding consistent with usage including surface checking. Features a double tunnel and lacing web arrangement that was prevalent around the 1925-30 period as a refinement to the Bill Doak style of glove using only lacing. This tunnel system allowed for greater strength and longer lasting webs. Interestingly, as great of a left handed batsman that Cobb was he threw with his right hand which is also consistent with the construction of the offered glove. As detailed in Lot #661 the Cobb hat the offered glove originated from Andrew Morgan who was one of Cobb's business advisors and assistant. In the letter dated 1941 Morgan refers to a newspaper clipping that he had later found which he believed to picture Cobb wearing a similar glove c.1914-18. That very newspaper photo is included to provide further corroboration of the Morgan letter of provenance but it is not picturing Cobb wearing the offered glove. The newspaper dates to the 1912 era while the offered glove is clearly a 1920's example. The glove iteself remains in a fine state of preservation having supple light brown leather surface with original lacings and padding intact. To the best of our knowledge there are only two other documented Ty Cobb game worn gloves extant both of which now reside in museum collections. As in the case of the Cobb hat offered in the previous lot it is nearly unprecedented to have a vintage primary source letter of provenance regarding a glove of this age and import. Without question one of the finest game used baseball gloves to be publicly offered. Includes xerox copy of the 1941 Andrew Morgan letter of provenance, LOA from SCD Authentic D.Bushing-D.Knoll, LOA from PSA/DNA J.Spence-S.Grad regarding the integrity/dating of the original 1941 Andrew Morgan letter, original newspaper clipping mentioned in the Morgan letter of provenance, and letter of provenance from the consignor regarding the lineage from the Clark family to the present: EX
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