A hunting license once issued to former Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams
was reported missing last week from a New Hampshire auction house, just
days before the Hall of Fame ballplayer's personal effects were to be
sold.
John Pappas, auctioneer at the
Knotty Pine Auction Service in West Swanzey, N.H., said the
one-of-a-kind license, issued to Williams by the state of New Hampshire
in 1970, disappeared around 5 p.m. Thursday during a preview of the
auction, which was held Saturday morning. The value of the license,
which was bundled with Williams's fishing hat and an aluminum pinback,
had an estimated worth of $300 to $500, but could have fetched upward
of $1,000, Pappas said.
"We had a tremendous amount of interest in it, and we had a lot of very disappointed people," he said.
Also
reported stolen were notes Williams had made about fishing spots and
lists of friends' phone numbers he had jotted down, which had been
tucked into the fishing hat. The fishing hat was left, however.
The
Swanzey Police Department told the New Hampshire Union Leader Saturday
that a report had been filed about the missing items.
The
auction featured personal items from the living estate of Dolores
Wettach Williams, his third wife. The two were married between 1968 and
1972 and shared a house in Putney, Vt., where Williams pursued several
hobbies after his retirement from baseball, including hunting, fishing,
and car collecting.
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