CIRCA 1890'S- EARLY 1900'S VINTAGE BASEBALL TROPHY MEDAL

Description: OFFERED HERE IS A ANTIQUE AND VINTAGE BASEBALL TROPHY MEDAL. THIS BASEBALL TROPHY MEDAL IS STILL IN IT'S ORIGINAL BOX AND IN NEAR MINT CONDITION. IT IS A TWO TIER BRONZE COLOR ANTIQUE BASEBALL MEDAL THAT WAS MADE BY DIEGES & CLUST. THE TOP PORTION IS A BAR MEDAL WITH THE WORDING "BASE BALL" AT THE TOP WITH VINTAGE CROSSED BASEBALL BATS AND A VINTAGE BASEBALL CATCHERS MITT AND BASEBALL FINELY ETCHED. THE SECOND PART OF THE TROPHY MEDAL IS A SHIELD STYLE MEDAL WITH A VINTAGE BASEBALL SCENE IN THE CENTER AND TWO BASEBALL PLAYERS DRESSED IN VINTAGE UNIFORMS ONE ON EITHER SIDE. THE BOTTOM DEPICTS THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IN THE CENTER WITH A WORLD ON EACH SIDE AGAIN FINELY ETCHED. THE TOP OF THE MEDAL READS: "THE SUNDAY WORLD" "P.P.G.A.". NOT SURE OF EXACT DATE MADE BUT MY GUESS IS 1890'S- TO EARLY 1900'S. THIS IS BASED ON SEVERAL FACTORS. #1. THE DIEGES & CLUST COMPANY WAS FOUNDED IN NEW YORK IN 1898 AND WAS PROMINANT AS THE PREMIER MAKER OF SPORTING MEDALS AND TROPHIES. (SEE INFO BELOW) #2. NEXT THEY CHANGED USING THE WORD "BASE BALL" TO BASEBALL AS ONE WORD IN THE LATE 1800'S. (SEE INFO BELOW) #3. LASTLY THE BASEBALL PLAYERS IN UNIFORM LOOK TO BE A EARLY PERIOD POSSIBLY 1890'S TO EARLY 1900'S. NOT SURE WHAT THE INITIALS PPGA STAND FOR SO PLEASE BID ACCORDINGLY. I HAVE HEARD SEVERAL OPINIONS BUT WE DO NOT KNOW FOR SURE TO DATE. THE TROPHY MEDAL IS ATTACHES TO A RED-WHITE AND BLUE RIBBON IT TOO STILL IN THE ORIGINAL BOX. THE BOX IS MADE OF BROWN AND WHITE CARDBOARD WITH A SILK OR VELVET LINER. THE BOTTOM OF THE BOX IS COMPLETE. THE TOP OF THE BOX (SEE PICTURES) HAS COME APART ON THE TOP BOX SIDES AND TWO SIDES ARE MISSING. THE TOP IS THERE AND TWO SIDES REMAINING BUT DETACHED SEE PICTURES. OVERALL I WOULD GRADE THE BASEBALL TROPHY MEDAL NEAR MINT TO MINT CONDITION. NO INSCRIPTIONS ANYWEHRE ON MEDAL TO GIVE US EXACT DATING. THE MEDAL MEASURES APPROX. 3.25 INCHES FROM THE TOP OF THE TROPHY MEDAL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE RED-WHITE AND BLUE RIBBON IT IS ATTACHED TO. THE CENTER SHIELD IN THE MEDAL IS APPROX. 1.25 INCHES ROUND. THE BACK OF THE MEDAL IS BLANK WITH THE ONLY WORDS BEING "DIEGES & CLUST" STAMPED AT THE BOTTOM. DISPLAYS VERY NICE. GUARANTEED VINTAGE AND AUTHENTIC. RETURN FOR ANY REASON WITHIN 14 DAYS OF DELIEVERY. ITEM MUST BE IN SAME CONDITION AS WHEN SHIPPED. BUYER PAYS FOR RETURN SHIPPING. I TRY VERY HARD TO DESCRIBE EACH ITEM AND PLEASE EMAIL ME IF CONCERNED OR WITH ANY QUESTIONS. I have been on Ebay since 1998 and have a 100% feedback. DIEGES AND CLUST INFO: The firm was founded in 1898 as a partnership between Charles Joseph Dieges and Prosper Clust. The partnership was converted to a company in 1908 with Dieges as president and director, and with Clust as secretary-treasurer and director.[4] The firm was located at 20 John Street, New York, New York, expanding to have offices in Boston, Pittsburgh, and Chicago.[5][6]The firm was sold to Herff Jones (a division of Carnation) on January 1, 1980.[7]Major works[edit]They produced many medals, including the Spanish–American War Medal, the 1904 Olympic Medal, the Eagle Scout medal (from 1916 to 1920),[8] New York State World War I Service Medal, the Medal of Honour, and the Titanic-Carpathia Medals (at the request of "The Unsinkable" Mrs. Molly Brown). They made baseball's first Most Valuable Player Awards and many Baseball Press Pins as well as Lou Gehrig's farewell plaque. They also cast the Heisman Trophy (in New York and later Providence, Rhode Island) from its inception in 1935 through late 1979 when the company was sold to Herff Jones (a division of Carnation) on January 1, 1980.[7]Perhaps the height of Dieges & Clust's production were the 1920s trophies known in sports collecting circles as "The Five Figural Spalding Baseball Trophies". The various trophies depict a baseball player pitching, catching, batting, playing first base, or playing in the outfield. The proportions of the figures and the detail (of the faces, fingers, stitching in the baseball gloves and shoelaces) are remarkable.[citation needed] They fetch up to $5,000 at auction, relatively high for a silver-plated trophy on a wooden base.[citation needed]BASE BALL WORDING INFORMATION: Baseball didn’t just develop into the national pastime in the late 19th century. Baseball also developed into one word at that time from its roots as a two-word phrase. The one-word term “baseball” developed into its compound form from its previous spelling as two separate words, the adjective “base” preceding the noun “ball,” and an intermediate hyphenated version as “base-ball.”Linguists refer to this process as word formation, or the creation of a new word by combining two older words. The formation of solid compound words such as baseball typically follows a pattern. As noted in the American Heritage Book of English Usage, “Many solid compounds begin as separate words, evolve into hyphenated compounds, and later become solid compounds.”Using the archives of the New York Times, we can easily discern the evolution of how the new word “baseball” developed during the last half of the 19th century. From its first references in 1855 through 1869, the game was spelled as two words, “base ball.” For example, a headline on September 1, 1868, regarding the match between the Athletics and the Atlantics read:Base BallThe Grand Match in Philadelphia— the Defeat of the Athletics—An Immense Assemblage of SpectatorsBeginning in 1870, the Times switched to hyphenating the two words as “base-ball” rather than treat them as separate terms. Illustrating this is a headline of February 7, 1876, about the formation of the National League, which read:Base-BallA Meeting of the Managers of the Professional Nines—the Philadelphia Club Excluded from the Championship Contests—New RulesThen in 1884, the Times eliminated the hyphen and converted the sport into one word, “baseball.” For instance, a headline on October 24, 1884, about the World Series game between Providence of the National League and the Metropolitan club of the American Association read:The Baseball FieldThe Providence Boys Put a Damper on the MetropolitansMany newspapers started to print the term “baseball” as one word in the mid-1880s, including the Washington Post and the Atlanta Constitution in addition to the New York Times. Other newspapers adopted the one-word convention in the early 1890s, including the Chicago Tribune in 1891 and the Boston Globe in 1893 (the latter newspaper going straight from two words to one word without the intervening hyphenated step).Accompanying the change in written form was likely a subtle change in speech pattern in how the term was pronounced. Typically, when the adjective–noun combination is treated as one word, the emphasis is on the first syllable (denoted here by capital letters), i.e., BASEball. When the combination is treated as two distinct words, the stress is usually on the second word, i.e., baseBALL. The classic example here is the pronunciation of greenhouse, a place where plants grow, and green house, a building painted green.The development of the one-word term “baseball” happened in much the same way as did the modern day terms “online” and “website.” Both of these terms linguistically began as two words, rapidly converted into a hyphenated form, then morphed into a single-term compound. Reflecting the vagaries of word formation, some publications still print these two Internet-related terms in their hyphenated or original two-word format.The term “baseball” was treated just as inconsistently in the late 19th century as “online” and “website” are today. While many publications had evolved to spelling baseball as one word, others printed the term in its hyphenated and two-word forms. Not until the early 20th century was there general uniformity in the spelling of “baseball.”

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