Premium pages left without account:

Auction archive: Lot number 138

The Crail Golfing Society, 1786-1936, Being the History of an Eighteenth-Century Golf Club in the East Neuk of Fife

Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$600
Auction archive: Lot number 138

The Crail Golfing Society, 1786-1936, Being the History of an Eighteenth-Century Golf Club in the East Neuk of Fife

Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$600
Beschreibung:

Title: The Crail Golfing Society, 1786-1936, Being the History of an Eighteenth-Century Golf Club in the East Neuk of Fife Author: Dow, James Gordon Place: Edinburgh Publisher: Golf Monthly Date: [1936] Description: xi, 100 pp. Foreword by W. Norman Boase. Illustrated with plates from photographs. (8vo), original white and red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, untrimmed. One of 250 copies. First Edition. The Crail Golfing Society is the seventh oldest golf club in the world, utilizing the Balcomie golf course, and is one of even fewer possessing a complete set of minutes from its inception. Crail also has the earliest record for the use of iron rings to maintain the holes, prior to the development of metal cups - Murdoch 207; D&M 15220; D&J D18820. Lot Amendments Condition: White cloth lightly tanned; near fine. Item number: 279374

Auction archive: Lot number 138
Auction:
Datum:
13 Apr 2017
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: The Crail Golfing Society, 1786-1936, Being the History of an Eighteenth-Century Golf Club in the East Neuk of Fife Author: Dow, James Gordon Place: Edinburgh Publisher: Golf Monthly Date: [1936] Description: xi, 100 pp. Foreword by W. Norman Boase. Illustrated with plates from photographs. (8vo), original white and red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, untrimmed. One of 250 copies. First Edition. The Crail Golfing Society is the seventh oldest golf club in the world, utilizing the Balcomie golf course, and is one of even fewer possessing a complete set of minutes from its inception. Crail also has the earliest record for the use of iron rings to maintain the holes, prior to the development of metal cups - Murdoch 207; D&M 15220; D&J D18820. Lot Amendments Condition: White cloth lightly tanned; near fine. Item number: 279374

Auction archive: Lot number 138
Auction:
Datum:
13 Apr 2017
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Try LotSearch

Try LotSearch and its premium features for 7 days - without any costs!

  • Search lots and bid
  • Price database and artist analysis
  • Alerts for your searches
Create an alert now!

Be notified automatically about new items in upcoming auctions.

Create an alert