A mysterious small group of ball set offerings recently showed up on ebay this past few weeks from a highly regarded and reputable seller of vintage items - with the listing showing an original shipping label from the Hyatt Ball Company to a newspaper company. Ongoing communications with the seller will hopefully lead down the path of discovery and just how these few sets of identical balls in identical boxes to a VA newspaper came to be. One plausible theory is they were sample balls showcasing what Hyatt could produce for clients interested in promotional balls or complete sets.
Here they are:
One last photo once they were pulled from the box and shot on my table with an iPhone 11 Pro Max. Untouched or enhanced of course...
Reminds me of a fitting quote from Winston Churchill:
“....it’s a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma...”
More to come as we unwrap this riddle.
~ K