Cast Iron bank - Ty Cobb?

todeen · #1 01-02-2021, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by CobbSpikedMe

Hi Tim,

When I read your title to this thread, that was the bank I was expecting to see. I've also seen it attributed to Cobb but I'm not sure why it is exactly.

Yeah, the cast iron batter is standing there holding the bat as a right handed hitter. I've usually thought the sellers are blowing smoke. But it's been this way for a few years now. Im wondering if it's domino effect, where someone clicked a button using a current / previous listing.

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perezfan · #2 01-02-2021, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by todeen

Yeah, the cast iron batter is standing there holding the bat as a right handed hitter. I've usually thought the sellers are blowing smoke. But it's been this way for a few years now. Im wondering if it's domino effect, where someone clicked a button using a current / previous listing.

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Nah, it's been referred to as the "Ty Cobb Bank" for decades. Not a recent phenomenon at all. Even major auction houses have sold them under that name.

I agree that it's generic in nature (and bears very little resemblance to Cobb). But that's the moniker it was given many years ago, which somehow managed to stick and become the hobby norm.

Shoeless Moe · #3 01-02-2021, 07:33 PM

What about the "Honus Wagner" / "Babe Ruth" lighter.....

https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-ORIGIN...p2047675.l2557

https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-ORIGIN...p2047675.l2557

perezfan · #4 01-03-2021, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

What about the "Honus Wagner" / "Babe Ruth" lighter.....

https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-ORIGIN...p2047675.l2557

https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-ORIGIN...p2047675.l2557

Now that one is definitely fabricated by those sellers. Good call...

A very cool, yet generic piece that has perhaps been called "Ruthian" on occasion... but never seriously attributed to the Babe.

Shoeless Moe · #5 01-03-2021, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by perezfan

Now that one is definitely fabricated by those sellers. Good call...

A very cool, yet generic piece that has perhaps been called "Ruthian" on occasion... but never seriously attributed to the Babe.

Right. Called Babe Ruth by Ebay sellers, even with a 1913 on the bottom of it. I think Ruth was still in detention in 1913.

todeen · #6 01-03-2021, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by perezfan

Nah, it's been referred to as the "Ty Cobb Bank" for decades. Not a recent phenomenon at all. Even major auction houses have sold them under that name.

I agree that it's generic in nature (and bears very little resemblance to Cobb). But that's the moniker it was given many years ago, which somehow managed to stick and become the hobby norm.

It makes a person wonder why, though. I would like to see original advertising for it.

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