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Enquiries@oldsportsauction.com- 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 551 Rare 1905 Valentines postcard this series is called 'International Golf Match St. Andrews - 'Taylor Last Drive'. Posted in St. Andrews 1905
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-56 days -18 hours -41 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£25.00
£45.00
Lot 552 Rare 1905 Valentines postcard this series is called 'International Golf Match St. Andrews August 1905 -'At The 17th Hole' Unused card
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-56 days -18 hours -40 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£76.00
Lot 553 Rare 1905 Valentines postcard this series is called 'International Golf Match St. Andrews August 1905. 'Putting at the 18th Hole' Used card in which the message mentions the match of 1000 spectators
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-56 days -18 hours -39 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£25.00
£40.00
Lot 554 Rare 1905 Valentines postcard this series is called 'International Golf Match St. Andrews August 1905. 'The Finish' Used card
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-56 days -18 hours -38 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£35.00
Lot 555 Rare 1905 Valentines postcard this series is called 'International Golf Match St. Andrews August 1905. The First Tee. Used card
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-56 days -18 hours -37 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£30.00
Lot 556 Rare 1906 James Patrick postcard 'R.M. Pitcairn Studying His Putt At The 2nd Hole'
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-56 days -18 hours -36 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£73.00
Lot 557 The Burke Golf Company 1922 Golf Catalogue first edition, 48 pages all VG condition. Offering of golf equipment for the season 98 years ago, from the Ohio company. Over ten inches tall. Original first edition
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-56 days -18 hours -35 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£35.00
£35.00
Lot 558 1970 World?s Seniors Professional Golf Championship Program, first edition 8 pages VG condition. Sam Snead vs Max Faulkner over 36 holes
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-56 days -18 hours -34 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£20.00
Lot 559 Handbook. Randolph Country Club USA 1927 first edition. 4 pages 1927 VG condition. The clubhouse is the former mansion of Robert Kimball with a ten room guest house
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-56 days -18 hours -33 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£20.00
Lot 560 Farmington Country Club Historical Sketch and Chain of Title 1979 first edition Claims the first 18 hole course laid out by Fred Findlay through valleys across ravines and a pond between tall trees & with cunningly placed artificial hazards. No two holes alike and none parallel
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-56 days -18 hours -32 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£30.00
£30.00
Lot 561 Rare Booklet. Bretton Woods in the Mountains of New Hampshire 1920s first edition 6 pages. VG condition, the original nine hole by A H Fenn & renovated by Alex Findlay with another nine added later
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-56 days -18 hours -31 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£30.00
£30.00
Lot 562 1920s? Bill Jones. Its Easy To Play Good Golf Spaldings Golf School. Good condition. Unfolds to six pages
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-56 days -18 hours -30 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£20.00
Lot 563 (Rare) Paracord Company for 1934. The Perfect Golf Swing & The Perfect Golf Balls 32 page Flicker Book in fine condition, cover title 'Sandy Says'
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-56 days -18 hours -29 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£45.00
£45.00
Lot 564 Scarce booklet. Briarcliff Lodge Sports Club not dated circa 1928. Unfolds to 8 pages each 9 x 11 inches . In fine condition 27 holes of golf
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-56 days -18 hours -28 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£40.00
£40.00
Lot 565 Arthur Plumb. The Country Club of Pittsfield Massachusetts 1921 first edition. VG condition. The brochure unfolds to six pages. The Donald Ross original 18 hole layout is just opening
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-56 days -18 hours -27 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£40.00
Lot 566 The Golf Club of Avon 1950. 88 pages a first edition.History of the City Club of Hartford CT including that for their fine facility for golf at Avon
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-56 days -18 hours -26 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£30.00
£30.00
Lot 567 Scarce Booklet, Coloured Illustrations by John Hassall 'Golf Penalties and Etiquette' Dunlop Tire and Rubber c1920. 16 pages, beautiful copy crisp and clean throughout
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-56 days -18 hours -25 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£25.00
£31.00
Lot 568 Unique unlisted 'Golf at Thousand Island' Grenadier Island Country Club, no date c1920, 12 pages all in FINE condition. Joint American and Canadian venture the temporary clubhouse has been built and the course is in play. This club was only accessible by boat but did not aspire to be the equal of the nearby on Wellesley Island where initiation fee in 1920s was one hundred thousand US dollars or todays equivalent of over TWO MILLION US DOLLARS
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-56 days -18 hours -24 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£50.00
£55.00
Lot 569 (Unlisted) Gene Sarazen 'How To Drive' Moviescope flicker book Advertising John Ward Shoes circa 1930 Alex Morrison also made action photographs for a golf shoe brochure for John Ward Shoes and may very well have made the movie for this series of photograph. Not in any reference book. From Alex Morrison archives THIS COPY BOUND WITH TWO COVERS. In fine condition
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-56 days -18 hours -23 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£200.00
Lot 570 Henry Cotton. RARE UNLISTED. 'Hints On Golf How To Reduce Your Handicap And Improve Your Game' + Henry Cotton 8 pages no date first edition circa 1934 FINE Not in Donovan and Jerris nor any other golf bibliography. Photographs by the Sport and General Press Agency and others
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-56 days -18 hours -22 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£40.00
£40.00
Lot 571 Unique Unlisted American Golf Club History 'The Shawnee Country Club' 16 pages first edition circa 1910.In FINE Condition. Basically impossible to obtain
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-56 days -18 hours -21 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£200.00
£600.00
Lot 572 Manchester Country Club New Hampshire first edition dated circa 1940s unfolds to six pages. VG condition One of Donald Ross? finest creations opened in 1928 at 6700 yards
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-56 days -18 hours -20 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£20.00
Lot 573 Unique (Bobby Jones) O B Keeler Golf in Augusta 1931 24 pages first edition FINE CONDITION The author?s scarcest work in stunning condition. Jones & Keeler were lifelong friends
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-56 days -18 hours -19 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£200.00
£830.00
Lot 574 George E Lardner. How To Play Golf 1927. 64 pages first edition VG condition Actually quite a good primer on the game and the Only Known Socialist Publication on the game
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-56 days -18 hours -18 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£20.00
Lot 575 Very Rare Railway Golf Annual. David Cooper. 'Far and Sure Notes on the Golfing Resorts on the Glasgow & Southwestern Railway' 1922 first edition thus 124 pages. In FINE Condition
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-56 days -18 hours -17 mins -27 secs
Starting Price
£200.00
£295.00
Lot 576 Unique Item. National Golf Links Of America Dinner in Honour Of The Members Of The British Walker Cup Team 1936, 20 pages a first edition VG condition. Superb photograph of C B Macdonald outside of the National Golf Links clubhouse attached to front cover. Only given to attendees of the dinner. This copy belonged to the Amateur Champion of 1936 Hector Thomson
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-56 days -18 hours -16 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£200.00
£600.00
Lot 577 Golf In Maine Season for 1950, 128 pages first edition in VG condition
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-56 days -18 hours -15 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£20.00
Lot 578 Woodstock Country Club 1911, 19 pages first edition. Good condition. Early Vermont club handbook
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-56 days -18 hours -14 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£25.00
£25.00
Lot 579 Santa Barbara Club 1926 with 62 pages, first edition the club was organized in 1892 apparently a social club formed for the diversion of its members, no indication of their playing golf or where they may have played if they did California who's who member list
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-56 days -18 hours -13 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£20.00
Lot 580 Randolph Country Club In The Heart Of The Green Mountains USA. 8 pages circa 1920s first edition, VG condition Also mentions the Montague Golf Course being a gift from the Kimball Family
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-56 days -18 hours -12 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£45.00
£45.00
Lot 581 Very Rare Railway Golf Annual. David Cooper. 'Far and Sure Notes on the Golfing Resorts on the Glasgow & Southwestern Railway' 1921 first edition thus 110 pages. In FINE Condition
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-56 days -18 hours -11 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£200.00
Lot 582 1960 Tommy Armour Speaks. PGA Business School Clearwater Florida 20 pages a first edition, in fine condition. Uncommon Armour instruction with considerable personal information. Armour recalls he took lessons from many famous players like Harry Vardon. Also Douglas Edgar and George Duncan etc.
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-56 days -18 hours -10 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£25.00
£25.00
Lot 583 Anonymous. The A B C Of Golf 1937, 23 pages very good condition. Rare little alphabet of golf booklet .Very well produced. Appears to have been offered as an advertising vehicle as the rear cover says YOUR IMPRINT HERE. Light edge wear otherwise fine condition. Possibly a proof copy from the collection of famed golf instructor Alex Morrison
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-56 days -18 hours -9 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£80.00
£200.00
Lot 584 Lawrence Robinson. History of the Blind Brook Club 19 pages undated c1947 written on rear cover corner and the textual dates end in the mid 1940s. Blind Brook was designed by Charles Blair Macdonald but he withdrew from the project before construction began. Seth Raynor was hired to replace him. Raynor altered several holes and built the course for Blind Brook.
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-56 days -18 hours -8 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£50.00
£50.00
Lot 585 1932 Bulgaria Sport Photos Walter Hagen cigarette card in fine condition. Photo number 219
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-56 days -18 hours -7 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£20.00
Lot 586 Sam Snead 1950s Wheaties cereal trading card. Nice original trimming by some child collector uncommonly in VG condition
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-56 days -18 hours -6 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£20.00
Lot 587 Georgie Fame pop-star, original photograph by Henry Cotton of the Pop Star hitting practice balls at Penina
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-56 days -18 hours -5 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£10.00
£10.00
Lot 588 Robert H.K. Browning. Unlisted Official Golf Club Handbook. Glen Gorse Golf Club undated c1950 - VG Condition
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-56 days -18 hours -4 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£20.00
Lot 589 Robert H.K. Browning. Unlisted Official Golf Club Handbook. Manchester Golf Club undated c1950 - VG Condition
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-56 days -18 hours -3 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£25.00
Lot 590 Unlisted! Official Golf Club Handbook Parkstone Golf Club dated 1970 in VG Condition
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-56 days -18 hours -2 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£15.00
£15.00
Lot 591 Robert H.K. Browning. Unlisted Official Golf Club Handbook. Walsall Golf Club undated c1950 - VG Condition
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-56 days -18 hours -1 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£10.00
£15.00
Lot 592 Unlisted! Official Golf Club Handbook Prince's Golf Club (Sandwich) Rare book of a famous Open Championship Course.dated 1970
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-56 days -18 hours 0 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£13.00
£18.00
Lot 593 Robert H.K. Browning. Official Golf Club Handbook. Royal Cromer Golf Club undated c1950 - VG Condition
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-56 days -17 hours -59 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£25.00
Lot 594 Unlisted Golf Club Handbook. Robert Browning. Hunstanton Golf Club undated circa 1950. 23 numbered pages + Pullout course plan - In VG Condition
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-56 days -17 hours -58 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£20.00
Lot 595 Scarce unlisted Camberley Heath Golf Club (Colt Designed Course) Official handbook c.1970 in very good condition - 28 numbered pages
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-56 days -17 hours -57 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£13.00
£13.00
Lot 596 Unlisted Version Royal Liverpool Golf Club Handbook. Author Guy B Farrar date unknown circa circa 1947, 23 printed pages (embossed red coloured letters on the cover) book is in excellent coindition
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-56 days -17 hours -56 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£20.00
Lot 597 Unlisted. Robert H K Browning Official Golf Club Handbook of Crews Hill Golf Club undated c1950 - VG Condition
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-56 days -17 hours -55 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£15.00
£20.00
Lot 598 Robert H.K. Browning Herne Bay Golf Club - the official handbook undated c1950, with a brief history of the club - James Braid designed course
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-56 days -17 hours -54 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£20.00
Lot 599 Official Golf Club Handbook. Clevedon Golf Club unknown author dated 1974 - In VG condition
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-56 days -17 hours -53 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£12.00
£12.00
Lot 600 Rare Unlisted Version. Official Golf Club Handbook. Robert.H.K. Browning. Haywards Heath Golf Club. Undated c1950 all in VG Condition - 19 numbered pages
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-56 days -17 hours -52 mins -28 secs
Starting Price
£20.00
£20.00