GLITTERS golden retrievers. My name is Kathy Braeckman and in 2. I got my first golden retriever. This was the start of a new lifestyle.. Draw Your Own Glitters Make your own glitter! You've seen them all over the web. Now it's your turn to draw one! No special programs are needed. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming. All that glitters is not gold is a well-known saying, meaning that not everything that looks precious or true turns out to be so. This can apply to people, places, or. Hauls of Shame - Breaking News. By Peter J. Nash. February 2. 0, 2. Heritage is selling what they say is the most important baseball artifact in existence, Babe Ruth's 1. WS pocket watch. Just recently the Babe’s 1. Yankee road jersey was purchased for $4. Thomas Tull so, when someone told Heritage Auctions they had the Babe’s World Series hardware from 1. Chris Ivy saw dollar signs. The auction house with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas, is pulling out all stops to promote its consignment as the auction catalog states, “As Babe Ruth’s personal award for the first World Championship in New York Yankees franchise history, this is arguably the most important article of sports memorabilia that exists.” Even Forbes is telling its readers they should buy the Babe’s pocket watch. It all sounds too good to be true. Ruth and Schwefel signed this photo (left) for his nephew, David Fern, whose brother, Lewis Fern, caddied for Ruth when he played at the St. Albans Golf Club in Queens (bottom right). Albans Golf Club in Queens, New York, in the 1. The rear case pops open to reveal further engraving, most notably the original text announcing, “Presented by Baseball Commissioner to George H. Ruth.” Just above we find the rest of Ruth’s late 1. To My Pal Charles Schwefel.”The 1. Yankee World Series watches were all hand engraved and unique. The details of the heads of each player and the ornamentation surrounding the word . The alleged Ruth watch offered by Heritage (left) is missing areas of engraved shading on each side of the engraved words . No one has ever seen it for public sale or public auction. The fact that there was no news about it for so many decades, it was just thought that at some point it had been lost to time.” Considering Ivy’s statement, how could he and Heritage ever know that Babe Ruth personally added engraving for his friend to the watch up for sale? In his 2. 00. 1 autobiography, Elden Auker, also claimed that Ruth had a fist- fight with Durocher after he’d caught him stealing marked bills from his hotel room. Years after Ruth’s death Durocher denied ever swiping his watch as he told a reporter, “You didn’t have to steal Babe’s watch,” he said. AP says, “The present owner, who wished to remain anonymous, declined to be interviewed. He said through Heritage that he acquired the watch for around $2. Hauls of Shame interviewed Lewis Fern’s son, Dwight Fern, of Atlanta, Georgia, who had a conflicting recollection of the sale of his father’s watch. Goodman Espy III via collector and dealer Darrel O’Mary. Espy didn’t have much knowledge and I sort of became (his) gate keeper for any potential purchases.” As for the discrepancy on the sales price O’Mary declined comment and said he never owned the Ruth pocket watch and added, “I can not weigh in on that. Espy but at the time he was excited about it and very liquid and that was by far the most he’d ever spent for an item. I never saw that but the rest of the engraving was there.” Fern provided us with an image taken of the watch when it was still in his father’s possession. The engraving was on the inside and I never opened it up like that,” said Fern. The watches were presented to Yankee players and executives after the 1. World Series. While Fern got his watch from his Aunt Elsie, the Yankee players and executives got their gold pocket watches from Judge Landis and it wasn’t until 1. Babe received his first World Series ring. Ruth later added rings with world titles in 1. Connery, however, have surfaced as well as one presented to team trainer “Doc” Woods. Connery and Mark Roth. The “long- lost” example currently being offered by Heritage clearly has a credible provenance story that shows how the watch was transferred from Charlie Schwefel to his nephew Lewis Fern. The most interesting issue appears to be the interior engraving that starkly contrasts the work inscribed into the 1. K surfaces of the known genuine examples presented to the Yankee executives. Connery. The serial number engraved on Heritage’s Ruth watch (1. Yankee watches previously sold by Heritage. Unconfirmed reports state that Gruen sold about 5. Verithin” model watches annually which would mean that the alleged Ruth watch was made months after all of the other known examples. The serial number on the Gruen movement of the Ruth watch is . Yank exec Paul Krichell's 1. Yankee watch survived with its original presentation box from Cincinnati jeweler Frank Herschede. An item from a 1. Cincinnati newspaper (right) illustrated one of the engraved watches sold by the firm. It is possible that the Gruen watches sold by Herschede were chosen by the Commissioner’s office because the Chairman of Baseball’s National Commission, August Herrmann, had been based in Cincinnati since the turn of the century and Herschede was also a stockholder in his Cincinnati Reds franchise. Jacob Ruppert also gave gold watch fobs to his champs (right).“In addition to the Fern letter, we also have correspondence from the period that not only confirms that the watch is engraved exactly as instructed by the Yankees organization and the Commissioner’s office, but provides additional data and facts that support that the watch that we are offering is 1. This striking new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a glittering bauble named Messier 92. Located in the northern constellation of Hercules, this globular. Winona Ryder got one for Johnny Depp. Nicole Kidman got one and named it 'Forever Tom.' Princess Diana has two, purchased for her after her death. Poet Laureate, 2001-2003. Make Pictures You can use the links below to make fun, custom pictures. You can use them on your Facebook Photos application, MySpace, Bebo or other websites. Babe Ruth for the 1. NY Yankees championship,” said Ivy in an email. Espy has not had any type of engraving added to it, I would swear under oath to that.”Since everything seems to boil down to the actual 1. Yankee executive watches were made months before the watches presented to the Yankees on Opening Day? Geez, if Babe was alive to hear this he’d give them a piece of his mind. Goodman Espy and his ex- wife Cheryl (center); Heritage CEO, Steve Ivy (right). Hauls of Shame also contacted the Pipgras- Simpson family and attempted to get a confirmation on the case serial number from George W. Unfortunately, this mystery will continue until this information is researched further and verified. Could Heritage have confirmed this information and still be holding it back from prospective bidders and the general public? Goodman Espy he asked that his name not appear in our report because he had not revealed his ownership of the 1. Cheryl Petros Espy of Atlanta, Georgia. The precise manner of engraving is confirmed by this paperwork, as are the details of the watches’ construction that are specific to the 1. Only eleven of the thirty- nine watches delivered to the team exhibit a full first name and middle initial as requested in the letter. Ruth is one of those eleven. A letter of provenance from the son of Lewis Fern, who sold the watch to our consignor over twenty years ago. This letter confirms all details of the elder Fern’s own letter of provenance as well as the fact that the watch remains identical in appearance to his earliest recollections of it as a child in the 1. We have discovered that the Championship watches issued to the 1. Yankees, both front office and player versions, were very lightly hand- scratched with a five- digit code beneath the serial number. The codes are represented by a “4. XXX” number and are consistent on all inspected examples, including the Ruth representation. We have determined that this coding was done prior to presentation to the recipients and appears to be present only on Yankee watches and absent on all other Gruen Verithin Pentagon examples we have located in our research. We will include photographic imagery of the other known Yankee watches to illustrate this trait that links each to the same specific population. UPDATE (Feb 2. 2, 2. Hauls of Shame presented watch expert Charlie Cleves with Heritage’s updated information concerning the 5- digit numerals and he responded saying: “The number inscribed underneath the serial number is usually put on by jewelry stores or watchmakers who work on watches. If there is a gap between this watch and the rest of them then I would think it was made at a later date (4 or 5 months later). We can always look up the number and know exactly what the price was, date of purchase and the person who bought it. Once Herschede went out of business I’m sure all of there files were destroyed. When the companies were going strong their serial numbers would be the best way to date a watch. Gruen was definitely tops in their field in the 2. UPDATE (Jan. 2. 8, 2. HERITAGE OFFERS BENNIE BENGOUGH’S 1. YANKEE WS POCKET WATCH & SOLVES THE RUTHIAN MYSTERY; MORE PROOF THAT HALPER’S BABE RUTH WATCH WAS A FAKEWhen we first published this article last February there were still lots of lingering questions about whether the 1. Heritage was actually the one awarded to Ruth on Opening Day in 1. But with Heritage Auction Galleries’ current offering of items from Yankee Bennie Bengough’s estate the mystery appears to have been solved—the sequence of serial numbers on Bengough’s 1. Gruen pocket watch is consistent with the numbers engraved on the Ruth watch. Heritage’s lot description states that the engraving on the watch reads: “Presented by Baseball Commissioner to Bernard Bengough.” The lot description adds: “The case bears a serial number of “1. Ruth’s model. We also note that a five- digit hand- scratched jeweler’s notation just under the serial number beginning with the number “4. Ruth’s.”Although the serial number sequences match on the Ruth and Bengough watches, the engraving on each watch case appears to be different. Halper’s alleged 1. Ruth watch was depicted in Sports Illustrated’s 1. The Sultan of Swap.” The watch was also identified as one of the premier pieces in Halper’s Ruth collection in a 1. New York Yankees yearbook feature written by Bill Madden.
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