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Lot 134: Jimmie Foxx's Personal Effects from his Estate (15)

ITEM DESCRIPTION

 
Reserve: $300.00
Winning Bid: $1,018.33
Price Realized: $1,216.91
Auction Date:12/15/2006 9:00 PM EST

One of the geatest power hitters in history, Jimmie Foxx won both the Triple Crown and the MVP in 1933, hitting a career 534 home runs. Collection of his personal effects from the Jimmie Foxx estate, includes his 1/2" Moose Lodge pin (screwback, EX-MT), 1/2" Knights of Columbus pin (EX-MT), 7/8" Knights of Coumbus cufflinks (2, EX, one logo is loose), 3/8" tie clasp (EX-MT), 2-1/2" stickpin (EX-MT), 4" x 5-3/4" desktop penholder with "Jimmie Foxx, Oct. 22, 1966" plaque (EX-MT), bronzed baseball bookends presented to Foxx by the Baltimore Orioles in 1965 (baseballs unmounted, VG), his 5" personal pocketknife (VG-EX), his personal shaving razor (VG-EX), his Boy Scout whistle (EX), his three-foot black wooden walking stick (EX) and a pair of 4" buckets engraved with "Jimmie & Dottie Foxx" and "June 18, 1943" respectively, the date of his marriage to Dorothy ("Dottie") (EX). LOA from Foxx's daughter Nanci.

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