- Monday, 25 January, 2021
Old Sports Auctions Ltd is the Company which has evolved as the primary internet auction site for handling the sale and purchase of sporting memorabilia especially golf memorabilia. The success of internet trading has created the demand for a high quality, knowledgeable supplier to satisfy the needs of the discerning collector, and the Company created by Graham Rowley is perfectly designed to satisfy that need.
Graham Rowley is a member of the Golf Collectors Society in both Britain and America, and is a regular attendee at meetings and fairs designed to promote the collecting of sporting artefacts and literature. So successful has this been that he is now acknowledged as one of the few who has expertise extending to virtually all areas of golf collecting, a skill that has extended into the general sports arena. His reputation for helping and encouraging new collectors is well founded, matching the desires of new devotees with advice on how to acquire the best from their individual collections, at the most advantageous cost, and without wasting time on futile expeditions with little reward.
His knowledge of the auction scene throughout Great Britain and the USA has enabled him to unearth some unique items of memorabilia for release to the collecting world. In addition he has acted on commission to acquire single items and collections for the most serious collectors around the world. He has dealt with collectors from over thirty five countries, enjoying their confidence because of the extensive knowledge and contacts that he has developed within the collecting fraternity, where trust is a vital element in the dealing.
Old Sports Auctions Ltd will continue to offer this very individual and rewarding facet of the business, and will be happy to receive enquiries from individuals seeking to enhance their collections in a selective manner. In an environment where the value of individual items can vary from a few pounds to hundreds of thousands for the rarest pieces, particularly where there is provenance available to endorse them, expert knowledge is critical in assessing true value, a skill and an art that has been exhibited by Graham Rowley on numerous occasions. Graham's thirty five years in the collecting arena have given him a unique knowledge and awareness of the marketplace, a knowledge that will benefit all the clients using either the web auctions or the personal acquisition commissioning. He has created the ideal supply and demand vehicle in a very selective environment, one that will serve clients on each and every transaction.
Lot 201 Rare Postcard from the 1906 Braid Hills Golf Professional Golfers Tournament - Features Braid - Taylor & Alex Herd in Montage. Unused postcard
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Starting Price
£40.00
£128.00
Lot 202 Rare 1905 Coloured James Patrick Postcard 'Old Tom Morris' Posting for the camera - Perfect display postcard
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-58 days -17 hours -8 mins -16 secs
Starting Price
£80.00
Lot 203 Stunning 1905 Coloured Postcard of J.H. Taylor from Tucks 'In The Open' Series all images used were taken by the photographer of the day George Beldham - Great Postcard
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-58 days -17 hours -7 mins -16 secs
Starting Price
£50.00
£55.00
Lot 204 Fine Postcared of the 1930 'Bobby Jones' Amateur Championship at St. Andrews - depicting Bobby Jones & Cyril Tolley. This rare card was posted by the famous clubmaker Robert Forgan in 1930! In VG Condition
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Starting Price
£25.00
£198.00
Lot 205 Attractive unused Postcard of Bobby Jones playing at Augusta. Maybe from when he played in his own tournament the Masters
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Starting Price
£20.00
£45.00
Lot 206 Bobby Jones Post Card circa 1927. Fine Unused. There were many tournaments at the Forrest Hills Augusta course but this is likely from the exhibition match officially opening the Donald Ross golf course.
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-58 days -17 hours -4 mins -16 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
Lot 207 Unique Japanese Golf Postcard of Bobby Jones period poscard c1930s - Very Rare unused card
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-58 days -17 hours -3 mins -16 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£45.00
Lot 208 Scarce unused postcard of Bobby Jones in action at the Shenvalee Hotel in Virginia on September 1930 - his first post retirement game?
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-58 days -17 hours -2 mins -16 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£20.00
Lot 209 Coloured 1930s Postcard of Hagen verseus Jones at St. Petersburg Florida - Nice postcard
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-58 days -17 hours -1 mins -16 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£20.00
Lot 210 Bobby Jones Post Card Fine Unused. There were many tournaments at the Forrest Hills Augusta course but this is likely from the exhibition match officially opening the Donald Ross golf course.
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-58 days -17 hours 0 mins -16 secs
Starting Price
£10.00
£10.00
Lot 211 Unique Unlisted Version Copy. Special Leather Bound Copy with Gilt Decorations. J. Cameron-Robbie. 200 years history of the Royal Burgess Golf Club 1735 to 1935. Published in 1936, the spectacular copy has been signed by the club's officers& council members of the day. Which leads me to think this is a VIPs edition. Making it a very rare book which is already rated as a classic
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-58 days -16 hours -59 mins -16 secs
Starting Price
£70.00
£70.00
Lot 212 Unlisted c1920 Jas B. Halley Strictly Wholesale Catalogue. 36 pages of golf equipment. 'Everything For Golf'
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-58 days -16 hours -58 mins -16 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£20.00
Lot 213 Jas B. Halley Strictly Wholsale Catalogue for 1930 - 1931. 48 pages of golf equipment. 'Everything For Golf'
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-58 days -16 hours -57 mins -16 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£60.00
Lot 214 J. B. Halley Retail Catalogue for 1934 - 1935. 36 pages of golf equipment. 'Everything For Golf'
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-58 days -16 hours -56 mins -16 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£40.00
Lot 215 Pre WW11. J. B. Halley Retail Catalogue for 1938 48 pages of golf equipment. 'Everything For Golf'
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-58 days -16 hours -55 mins -16 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£35.00
Lot 216 Very Rare 1920 Booklet by 'W.E.F.' (Walter Edwin Farlie) 'The Old Course of St. Andrews - Plans with Names of Holes & Bunkers. Unlisted booklet in VG Condition. Maybe its the first ever golf course guide from 100 years ago
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-58 days -16 hours -54 mins -16 secs
Starting Price
£40.00
£175.00
Lot 217 (Unlisted) RARE TOURIST TRAVEL BROCHURE - Golf In Japan - Published by Japanese Government Railways dated 1934. 68 Pages written in English
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Starting Price
£30.00
£55.00
Lot 218 Unlisted Golf Club Handbook Robert H.K. Browning Trevose Golf Club c1937. Has 37 numbered pages. Iside the book is a Advert Flier for the Pater Lawless book Golfers Companion which was published in 1937
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-58 days -16 hours -52 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£35.00
£40.00
Lot 219 Unlisted. Tom Scott Official Golf Club Handbook of Royal Cromer Golf Club 1971
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-58 days -16 hours -51 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£20.00
Lot 220 Unlisted Golf Club History. Charles Catlow Northamptionshire Golf Club from 1916 to 1972. Golf Handbook style, privately produced
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-58 days -16 hours -50 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£15.00
£15.00
Lot 221 Tom Scott Official Golf Club Handbook of Sittingbourne & Milton Regis Golf Club 1962
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-58 days -16 hours -49 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£8.00
Lot 222 Unlisted Golf Club History. E.P. Brand Ramsey Golf Club Ltd from 1922 to 1968. Golf Handbook style, privately produced by the author
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-58 days -16 hours -48 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£15.00
£15.00
Lot 223 Harold Riley 'Golf Sketches' at the 1991 Ryder Cup Kiawah Island a Limited Edition in VG Condition
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-58 days -16 hours -47 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£35.00
£35.00
Lot 224 Harold Riley 'Golf Sketches' Jack Nicklaus front cover dated 1993, a limited edition highly prized book! In VG Condition
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-58 days -16 hours -46 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£30.00
£30.00
Lot 225 'RARE' Harold Riley 'THE BELFRY' 'Golf Sketches' for the 2001 Ryder Cup which was cancelled and played 12 months later - rare 48 page booklet encased in its special dust jacket, full of Riley golf illustrations of the golf course - Riley is a much sought after modern day golf artist - Mint unused condition
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-58 days -16 hours -45 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£40.00
£40.00
Lot 226 Glassic Golf Book. Bernard Darwin. The Golf Courses of Great Britain 1925 edition cult classic. The greatest golf book ever written ? maybe.
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-58 days -16 hours -44 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£35.00
£135.00
Lot 227 Rare Book. 2011 The Walker Cup - Royal Aberdeen. Stunning photos & a great account of these epic matches. US team had Spieth - Uihlein - Cantley & English playing!
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-58 days -16 hours -43 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£30.00
£30.00
Lot 228 Scarce Edition. Geoffrey Cousins. Manor House Hotel Golf Course undated c1965 scarce booklet 11 pages with large fold out map
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-58 days -16 hours -42 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£13.00
£13.00
Lot 229 S. L. McKinley The Gleneagles Hotel Golf Courses circa 1960 official fold-out handbook with a brief history dated with pull-out map. Excellent condition. Great reading
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-58 days -16 hours -41 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£12.00
£12.00
Lot 230 S.L. McKinlay. Gleneagles Hotel Golf Courses 1969 1st edition - scarce booklet in VG Condition
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-58 days -16 hours -40 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£13.00
£13.00
Lot 231 Seldom Seen Title. P.G. Tait. Life and Scientific Work of P. G. Tait 1911 1st edition. He invoked the 'Magnus' effect which explains the influence of spin on the flight of a golf ball.
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-58 days -16 hours -39 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£40.00
£40.00
Lot 232 Nice Conditioned Postcard! Strange Golf Ball Postcard 'Bunkered' Used 1904 - Gutty golf ball suspended in the air - produced by D & H Livingstone Scotland
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-58 days -16 hours -38 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£15.00
£15.00
Lot 233 Scarce Postcard James Braid & JH Taylor at St. Andrews c1910
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-58 days -16 hours -37 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£25.00
Lot 234 H Lord & P Pugh. Masters of Design: Great courses of Colt, Mackenzie, Allison & Morrison. 2009 mint unused condition. 445 Pages of great architecture and photography
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-58 days -16 hours -36 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£30.00
£75.00
Lot 235 Scottish Tourist Board. 'Scotland For Golf' Dated 1964 has 96 printed pages - excellent golf course guide in VG Condition
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-58 days -16 hours -35 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£10.00
£10.00
Lot 236 Rare 1903 Postcard of Sunningdale Golf Clubhouse. Two years after it opened. The famous oal tree is just a small sappling 117 years ago
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-58 days -16 hours -34 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£15.00
£15.00
Lot 237 Early 1903 Postcard of Harlech (Royal St. Davids) Golf Course - in VG Condition
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-58 days -16 hours -33 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£8.00
£8.00
Lot 238 Two Different 1901 (early) & 1907 Golf Postcards of Royal Cromer Golf Clubhouses. Both in good condition
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-58 days -16 hours -32 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£10.00
£10.00
Lot 239 (Unlisted) Official Golf Club Handbook Hockley Golf Club Hampshire - unknown author, dated 1969
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-58 days -16 hours -31 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£13.00
£13.00
Lot 240 J.R.L. Orange Esq. Official Golf Club Handbook of East Devon Golf Club dated 1969 - Unlisted in VG Condition
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-58 days -16 hours -30 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£15.00
£15.00
Lot 241 Scarce Golf Club Handbook. Cowdray Park Golf Club 1971 - good condition
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-58 days -16 hours -29 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£13.00
£18.00
Lot 242 Early 1902 Postcard of Dalhousie Golf Clubhouse Carnoustie - in VG Condition
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-58 days -16 hours -28 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£10.00
£10.00
Lot 243 Two Different 1903 Golf Postcards of Bournemouth Golf Clubhouse & Course. Both in good condition
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-58 days -16 hours -27 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£10.00
£10.00
Lot 244 Collection of 4 different coloured postcards from the Holly Hill Country Club c1920s. Unused postcards
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-58 days -16 hours -26 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£50.00
Lot 245 Tom Scott. Official handbook of Teignmouth golf club 1970
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-58 days -16 hours -25 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£10.00
£10.00
Lot 246 Unlisted Version. B.C. Moor The Sunridge Park Golf Club, Official Handbook, 1986. 24 pages, vg+ condition
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-58 days -16 hours -24 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£10.00
£15.00
Lot 247 Unlisted. K Menon. 1949 to 1999 Golf Jubilee History of 'Addicts Society of Southern India' Rare book in fine condition
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-58 days -16 hours -23 mins -17 secs
Starting Price
£15.00
£15.00
Lot 248 Unused Chess Set (Boxed) Depicting golfers all hand painted come with wooden chess board
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-58 days -16 hours -22 mins -18 secs
Starting Price
£50.00
£50.00
Lot 249 Large silver medal engraved RANELAGH GOLF CLUB dated 1910
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-58 days -16 hours -21 mins -18 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£55.00
Lot 250 Early Silver Golf Button. From BLACKLEY Golf Club Manchester dated 1910
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-58 days -16 hours -20 mins -18 secs
Starting Price
£15.00
£15.00