Live Auction 20998Selections from the Geddy Lee Collection and Important Baseball Memorabilia
"BABE" RUTH'S DRESSING SET: AN AMERICAN SILVER-MOUNTED SIX-PIECE DRESSING SET
Lot 117

"BABE" RUTH'S DRESSING SET: AN AMERICAN SILVER-MOUNTED SIX-PIECE DRESSING SET

MARK OF R. BLACKINTON & CO., NORTH ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed6 December 2023

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"BABE" RUTH'S DRESSING SET: AN AMERICAN SILVER-
MOUNTED SIX-PIECE DRESSING SET
MARK OF R. BLACKINTON & CO., NORTH ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Comprising two brushes, a comb, a cut glass bottle and cover, a shoe horn, and a pair of scissors, all engraved with panels of horizontal bands and with block initials GHR, marked throughout
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) long, the brushes
3 oz. 4 dwt. (100 gr.) weighable silver

With George Herman "Babe" Ruth (1895-1948).
Anonymous sale; Hunt Auctions, Exton, Pennsylvania, 15 June 2019, lot 156.

Specialist note

Born in 1895, George Herman "Babe" Ruth began his baseball career as a star pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, before achieving fame for his batting while playing as an outfielder for the New York Yankees from 1920-1934. Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest American sports heroes, and was one of the first five inaugural members elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936.