Don’t know if already mentioned —
At POTUS’ Medal of Sacrifice Ceremony yesterday for the Fallen Palm Beach County Police Officers, POTUS thanked the Arnault family, who own Tiffany & Co., and designed the medal. Prompted anon to look up a Tiffany family member (PIC: Mr. Platt, great-great grandson of founder Lewis B. Tiffany with Audrey Hepburn; He provided her jewelry for Breakfast at Tiffany's), came across this:
Tiffany & Co. also designed the first New York Police Medal of Valor in the 1800s, which would become the New York Yankees’ Logo.
It’s been said to be designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany (son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder), but some pravda (such as NYSlimes) had “Louis B. Tiffany”, which was wrong, kek, no not citing them.
The most famous logo in sports has its roots in an unlikely event: a 19th-century shooting. Police Officer John McDowell was on routine patrol in Hell’s Kitchen in the early-morning hours of Jan. 8, 1877, when he spotted a burglary in progress at Courtney’s Liquor Store. McDowell attempted to arrest the thieves, took a bullet in the left ear for his trouble — but still managed to hold on to one of the goons, George Flint. McDowell eventually recovered from his wounds, and the brave cop was awarded a Tiffany & Co.-designed NYPD Medal of Valor, featuring the now-famous interlocking “NY.”
How the iconic symbol made its way to the caps and uniforms of the New York Yankees is still a matter of conjecture, according to Bill Francis, a senior researcher at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library…. But it wasn’t until 1909 that the “NY” appeared on the uniform’s left sleeve and ball cap. Francis said the prevailing theory is that Yankees owner William “Big Bill” Devery — a New York City police chief in 1898 — was behind it, though no direct link is known. The logo left the jerseys in 1916, but returned in 1936. The medal has a home due south of The Bronx; it’s housed at the New York City Police Museum in Lower Manhattan. https://archive.is/wip/JZqG3 https://nypost.com/2012/07/15/yankees-and-nypd-interlock/