Ty Cobb's dentures
 

To the surprise of virtually no one.

https://sportscollectorsdigest.com/n...el=tw-37041421

i remember when these first went on sale...i considered bidding...being a dentist and all. Too bad another bad halper item!!

That lie didn't have any teeth to it whatsoever.

One point the article makes, to extent I am reading it properly, is that the dentures were being held by the apparatus used to make them, and there was no reason in the world Cobb would have possessed that equipment. Seems like a pretty obvious point in hindsight.

true! the impressions/models are used to make the prosthesis...and it'd be quite unusual for the patient to end up with the models. certainly possible these were made and never delivered to cobb...meaning the dentist had them at time of cobbs death or cobb never returned to the dds for them.

A fearless player, no doubt. But like so many of us, maybe he was afraid of going to the dentist! :eek:

I actually did bid on them (looking back, not a finer moment)…thank God I did not win

I think I read somewhere that Cobb had dental work, or surgery or something, while refusing pain killer. He was truly a tough, mind over matter guy.

I doubt he would've been afraid to face a dentist, or for that matter, any body, any thing, any place, any time.

I've joked about it before, but I wonder how far off we are from selling the busted tendon removed from someone's knee or elbow or other body part. Would probably make a nice "relic" card. 1 of 10 body relic card. Coming soon from Topps.

Definitely not for me

As I recall from the Ken Burns Baseball documentary Cobb had his tonsils removed after a game without anesthetic and played the next game with gauze in his mouth . Ironically the "doctor" who performed the "surgery" was either arrested or committed to a mental hospital sometime later. It's in the 2nd episode / inning of the documentary titled Something Like a War.

The first inkling I had about the Halper collection was when they put a bunch of the lesser priced items on Ebay. He had a bat signed by McGwire and Sosa and both signatures were ridiculously bad. that was the first red flag. I remember after Halper passed the flood gates opened on how many items were misrepresented or fake all together.

Back in the 90's I remember also seeing and auction for a vial of "thick viscous liquid removed from Ty Cobb's lungs". That may be 50% more ridiculous then the dentures.

"thick viscous liquid removed from Ty Cobb's lungs"
That's hysterical!! :D
Yikes!

Did SCP Auctions give a refund for the Ty cobb Dentures?
 

It looks as if SCP Auctions might have given a refund to the purchaser, as no sales price for the dentures is listed in the prices realized list for that auction.