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Lot # 743: 1955 Pee Wee Reese Day Presentation Sterling Silver Cigarette Box

Category: Pee Wee Reese

Starting Bid: $500.00

Bids: 1 (Bid History)

Time Left: Auction closed

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Item was in Auction "December 2002",
which ran from 12/5/2002 12:00 AM to
12/31/2002 9:00 PM



Sterling silver box is homage to his popularity as a player. From Pee Wee Reese Day at Ebbets Field. Picture the moment. 35,000 fans lit candles and sang “Happy Birthday” to him in the fifth inning as the lights were turned down. Presented by the radio team of Vin Scully, Connie Desmond and Andre Baruch, it is engraved, “To The Dodger of Em All PEE WEE REESE From The Boys At The Mike July 22, 1955.” The box is a sterling silver tabletop cigarette box in a supreme quality modernist style. Hammer stamped “Abercrombie & Fitch” and “Made In England” and with the appropriate hallmarks. 8x3.25x1”. EX+. LOA from Reese family.

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