Featured Thrift Store Find - Tiffany & Co. Sterling Silver Golf Putter(!) How to take off prev. owner's name?

C'mon....Dad can't golf anymore.....let's put his clubs out to the thrift store so someone else can make use of them...........

I'd like to see the rest of the set !!!!!

 

Probably something just like that.

Debora

 

Yeah! leave it to Deb to cloudy up the mood!

 

Right???? I just learned about looking for gold belt buckles in the belts dept.

 

Dang! You’re thrift stores just put all the good stuff out don’t they? I’ve spent a fair amount of time thrift hunting and don’t come up with barely anything on the level you do. It’s once in a blue moon, you seem to come up with great stuff every week. Do you go in the morning? Either the stuff never hits the shelf here or I just don’t get there at the right time.

 

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Possibly passing along a gift they didn't realize that it was sterling, much less Tiffany. People from my mother's generation didn't scour for marks before donating things, etc. Maybe one of those "For the man who has everything" gifts. Would you display it on the wall?? You wouldn't actually use it to golf, right? I could easily see someone donating that just getting rid of excess things, obviously with no idea what was what.

That said, I would LOVE to have found it, lol. Not that you would ever melt it down, but I bet even the scrap value would be nothing to sneeze at.

 

one could certainly use it..

 

I go there 45 min - 1 hour before opening to be within first 5 people - by 10 min before opening there ALWAYS a line of 25-50 people (and on wed.'s 1/2 price day the line goes around the block! (I've never seen anything like Miami's thrifts; every one has a line before opening)

 

ya, but how many have sterling silver golf clubs !!!!!

maybe it's time to branch out ...from paintings !!

 

I've never been to a thrift store so I don't really know about branching out!
Seems to me though that thrifts in a retirement area would have better stuff than your run of the mill places for obvious reasons.
@journeymagazine is in Miami Florida?, PRIME territory I would guess.

 

specially for golf clubs...........

 

Indeed, especially for Golf clubs.
BTW, the putter journey found is called a "Bulls Eye" putter and could absolutely be used on the golf course although I doubt you would want to.
It's a rather famous putter developed in the 1940s and has won Major Championships on tour, including Johnny Miller's final round 63 in the 1973 US Open at Oakmont in Pennsylvania.

 

I don’t really want to rain on anyone’s parade, but did anyone READ that TIFFANY logo....which is rather SLOPPILY done..... I certainly HOPE for Journey’s sake it’s legit, but before investing anything in it.....get it checked out!!!!!

 

Yes! I did notice the double Y and & but just assumed it was a bad photo?
Besides the thread has moved into more important areas, like talking GOLF!

 

LOL

 

i believe i have one of those in the garage..

 

Was there another Tiffany golf club on these boards a long time ago? I know I've seen one, but it might have been the eBay boards.

 

Tiffany still sells these putters, $2500. from the NY store or online
https://www.tiffany.com/accessories...objects-sterling-silver-golf-putter-34775095/

 

I always look and only find sewn-in brass, if that good. I did score a sterling set twice, but never gold. I have a gold one though; it was my dad's and it's going nowhere.

My honey holes used to be senior center thrifts, the ones on site. They stopped letting outsiders in well before Covid; some jerks were going in and ruining things for the rest of us.