Louisville Slugger Baseball BAT - USA - Circa 1940

Louisville Slugger Baseball BAT

UNITED STATES

Around 1940

Drink

Total length: 82.8 cm

Wooden baseball bat, marked in a cartouche "LOUISVILLE SLUGGER 102 HILLERICH & BRADSBY Co MADE IN USA LOUISVILLE KY" then below "TRADEMARK REG.".

Engraved “OIL TEMPERED” above a lightning bolt.

Marked "USN LOUISVILLE SLUGGER SOFT BALL".

Baseball bat brought by an American soldier when he arrived in France in 1943, during the Second World War, and collected at the liberation.

Ref.: 4862

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