Bought my first trophy...so please show yours !

[rickybulldog50]

Here are some more. Great stuff Mark!
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[perezfan]

Amazing stuff Ricky. Especially that Giant Pitcher Trophy posted at the end, and the Spalding Catcher. That's not the one just recently concluded in Hunts, is it?

Regardless of how you acquired it.... many congrats!

[rickybulldog50]

Thanks. The catcher was not from Hunt. I actually acquired it in a huge trade along with the Spalding basemen from a private collection. I gave a lot of rare gloves and ad stuff for it, but I'm really thrilled! The bottom pitcher is a good sized one although I don't know if that was it's original base. I saw a similar topper on a Rawlings trophy. BTW, on your Cobb trophy, does the inscription say "baseball"? The last one I saw had a "Mush ball" inscription on it. I love that loving cup you have with the sliding ball player on it! That may be next on my list along with the Spalding fielder.

[jcmtiger]

This is the only Trophy I have. Ty Cobb pictured in his fedora. 1913 W.B. Jarvis Company.

[thekingofclout]

And Mark, absolutely breathtaking.

[sayhey24]

Wow, those are some amazing trophies!
Mark, I love the Ty Cobb sliding and the Spalding batter.
Ricky, your Spaldings are great too, and so is that Murray Co piece -- is it very heavy?
Here are the few that I have, and they pale in comparison. A couple are Silver Glove Awards, the minor league equivalent to the Gold Glove. And the kind of plain ugly loving cup was presented to Jack Barry of the A's before he reached the majors.

Greg

[mjkm90]

A few favorites from my collection.





This large cup has figural bats around the central support.

[perezfan]

Mike:

That D&M Trophy is stunning. It really has it all- from the crossed bat support to the loving cup, to the classic D&M Logo Ball, to that great pitcher figural at the top. Also, it may be the nicest conditioned trophy I have ever seen from that era...

Do you have to continually maintain/polish it, or does it just stay that way? Most of these trophies look great with some tarnishing and aging, as it enhances the vintage look and patina. But yours is simply spectacular in its pristine state!