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Author: Golfing Magazines & Ads
Title: Large Collection of Articles, Advertisements and 4 Magazines on Golf and Golfing
Place: Various places
Publisher: Various publishers
Date: Various dates
Item # : 105512
Offered by: PBA Galleries
Start Date   07/19/2002 17:00:00 CDT
Dynamic End Date   07/29/2002 19:00:00 CDT
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Minimum Bid   $ 25
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Description:
With: 2 copies of Life Magazine Vol. 38, No. 4 (January 24, 1955) "New Guard of Golf" (golfing article on the new crop of golfers fashioning themselves after Ben Hogan). * Life Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 10 (September 4, 1939). With a color reproduction painting by William C. Palmer titled "The Defeat of Bobby Jones." * Collier's Magazine from April 15, 1939 with golfing cover. * 20 Various Ads: including a screen color lithograph for Mennen's Talcum Powder with a golfing scene, c.1910; Nobby golf ball from U.S. Rubber Co. from Leslie's Weekly on newsprint; "What Your Game Needs Most" by Grantland Rice; Spalding ad - The Clubs that Bobby Jones designed; Clubs of Monel Metal; MacGregor clubs; Roseman Tractor Mower Co.; "The Most Valuable Strokes in Golf" by Jock Hutchison; Wilson Sporting Goods; Good Year Wingfoot Heels for shoes; Hagen Woods and Irons; "What Can Be Learned from Abe Mitchell" by George Duncan; "El Principe de Gales: The King of Havana Cigars" from Havana-American Co., with golfing scene, c.1910; Pinehurst North Carolina "The Healthiest and Most Perfect Resort in the South (Two Excellent Golf Courses)" with golfing scene of man and woman; "The New Sweaters and Caps" color ad with drawings by Anna May Cooper with 6 women models sporting the latest golfing fashion for women at the time, circa 1900 (large tears to edges). * 36 individual sheets of golfing ads and articles, mostly from 1922 to 1931, a few from the late 1940's and 1950 include: Kuppenheimer Suits; Kro-Flite by Spalding "the greatest golf ball record ever made"; Burke 50/50 Co. for Clubs, Bags and Balls; "U.S." Royal Golf Balls; MacGregor Course-Tested Golf Clubs with two color photos; MacGregor Set for Woman and Child in full-color; Electronic U.S. Royal golf ball; cartoon drawing by E.W. Kemble "Political Golf Course"; Tom Thumb miniature golf course ad; Coach Work by Murray motor car body-crafter from Detroit. Articles: "The Golf Come-Ons" by Samuel G. Blythe (3 sheets) with photos; "The Fifth Estate: Thirty Years of Golf" by Jerome D. Travers and James R. Crowell (5 sheets) with photos, including one of Bobby Jones and one of Findlay Douglas (winner of the 1898 Amateur Championship).
From the collection of Charles Yaws, former Director and was the first Administrator of the U.S. Golf Collector's Society.
Condition:
Some extraction wear with short tears and light chipping to some of the edges of the loose items, some with minor marginal darkening, else clean and no markings; magazines very good or better, overall very good, sold as is.
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