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Three Cigarette Cards, Ogden's Tabs
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Ogden Tabs Golf Cigarette Cards.
The three 'Ogden's Cigarettes' cards show the Open Golf Champions of the past, James (misspelt 'John') Braid and Harry ...
Category
British Antique Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
$320 / item
Antique Golf Plate, Royal Winton, Golf Language
By Royal Winton
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Winton Pottery With Golf Design.
A Wonderful Golf Plate by Royal Winton, Stoke on Trent pottery, with the printed mark to the rear. The transfer decoration is showing a golf scene w...
Category
English Sporting Art Vintage Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Le Spiroble De Salon, A French Tennis Game with Two Rackets
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage tabletop swing ball game.
A rare tabletop swing ball game in original pine box. The exterior of the lid with stenciled name 'Le Spiroble de Salon'. The interior with paper instructions. The Victorian or early Edwardian game comprises of a short beech-wood pole with weighted X base and a ball on a piece of string. There are two very nice long handled rackets to accompany the set, the rackets with original gut stringing.
A fine and I believe very rare set.
The paper instructions are in French and read:-
Le Spiroble de Salon.
Deux Joueurs:-
Ce jeu se joue sur une table divisee en deux parties egales par le Trace. Il se compose d'un Poteau au sommet duquel est attachee une cordelet le terminee par une balle en caoutehoue.
Pour installer le Poteau on en fait entrer l' extremite dans le support alour- di de plomb en forme decroix. Le support est place au milieu de la table dans l'axe du Trace.
Deux joueurs prennent part au jeu. Munis chacun d'une raquette, ils se placent en ???? l'un de l'autre de chaque cote du Trace et tirent au sort a qui lancera la balle. Le joueur faorise lance la balle fortement aves sa raquettsde facon a enrouler la cor...
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French Antique Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Pine
Hallelujah
Located in London, GB
Original US Trade advertisement for the 1929 pre-Code Musical Hallelujah directed by King Vidor and starring Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney and William Fountaine.
The wonderful...
Category
American Vintage Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
$1,703
Vintage MacGregor Goldsmith 9 LB Leather Medicine Ball, 1940s
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Large American leather medicine ball by MacGregor & Goldsmith.
This weighted 9lbs ball has amazing patina and age-appropriate wear with signs of natural aging caramel-tan leather.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Leather
$336 Sale Price
53% Off
A Pair of Edwardian Metal Tennis Court Net Posts by F.H. Ayres
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
A Pair of Edwardian Metal Tennis Court Net Posts by F.H. Ayres
This is a good original pair of metal lawn tennis posts made by F.H. Ayres, London. The posts are made of hollow square...
Category
Edwardian Antique Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Iron
British Sports And Sportsmen, Polo And Coaching
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
British Sports & Sportsmen Book, Polo And Coaching.
A rare, first edition, single encyclopaedia of sports book from the series "British Sports and Sportsmen" titled Polo And Coaching...
Category
British Sporting Art Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Leather
Ceramic Carlton Ware Golf Beaker
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Wiltshaw & Robinson Carlton Ware Golf Beaker.
A ceramic Carlton Ware beaker with a golfing scene and gilt rim. The golf scene shows one golfer dressed in a red coat about to strike t...
Category
British Sporting Art Antique Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Ceramic
57.5CM GEOFFREY BUTLER COLUMBUS SLX CAMPAGNOLO CHORUS WINTER TRAiNER ROAD BIKE
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning Vintage Geoffrey Butler Columbus SLX NEW Steel road bike with Campagn...
Category
Other Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Steel
Early Antique Wood Saddle Stand with Rope 1910s - Nowata Oklahoma
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
An antique wood saddle stand from the early 1900s. This piece is created from wood and was used at a cattle ranch just outside the small rural town...
Category
American Rustic Vintage Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Vintage Brown Leather Medicine Ball, 1930s
Located in Praha, CZ
Original vintage heavy leather training ball with beautiful patina. The ball is made of handstitched genuine leather in former Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. It can be used as an origi...
Category
Czech Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Leather
Antique Arch Colonel Golf Ball
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
St. Mungo's 'Arch Colonel' Rubber Core Golf Ball.
An unusual patterned rubber core golf ball in reasonable condition manufactured by St. Mungo Manufacturing Co. of America, Newark, N...
Category
British Victorian Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Rubber
Baines Football Trade Card, Yeadon Green Lane, Well Played
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Baines football trade card, yeadon green lane. Well played.
A rare circular football trade card in the shape of a leather football ball. Made by the toy shop owner from Bradford, John Baines. Baines went on to produce not only football cards...
Category
British Sporting Art Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
British Sports And Sportsmen Book Commerce Motoring And Aviation
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
British Sports & Sportsmen Book, Modern Commerce, Motoring, Aviation.
A rare, first edition, single encyclopaedia of sports book from the series "British Sports and Sportsmen" titled...
Category
British Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Leather
British Sports And Sportsmen Book Breeding Agriculture And Country Life Pursuits
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
British Sports & Sportsmen Book, Breeding And Agriculture.
A rare, first edition, single encyclopaedia of sports book from the series "British Sports and Sportsmen" titled Breeding, ...
Category
British Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Leather
Baines Football Trade Card, Newcastle, Well Centred
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Baines Football Trade Card, Newcastle. Well Centred.
A rare circular football trade card in the shape of a leather football ball. Made by the toy shop owner from Bradford, John Baines. Baines went on to produce not only football cards...
Category
British Sporting Art Vintage Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Vintage Brown Leather Medicine Ball, 1930s
Located in Praha, CZ
Original vintage heavy leather training ball with beautiful patina. The ball is made of handstitched genuine leather in former Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. It can be used as an origi...
Category
Czech Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Leather
Hardy Fishing Net/Wading Stick
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage Hardy Landing Net.
A good salmon fishing landing net made by Hardy's of Alnwick. The triangular shaped net has wooden arms with added metal bars for extra strength and brass ...
Category
British Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
Antique Golf Ball, St. Mungo Patent Colonel Bramble Pattern Golf Ball
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Patent Bramble pattern golf ball by St. Mungo.
A good example of 'The Colonel' bramble patterned rubber core golf ball. The golf ball is in good condition a...
Category
British Antique Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Rubber
Original Golf Club Left Handed Ribbed Face Backspin Club
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
A great left-handed backspin golf club by Hillerich and Bradsby Co. Louisville, Kentucky. Also stamped 'PAR - X - L' and' Hand Made' with logo. There are also the initials H.B and th...
Category
American Vintage Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Steel
Antique Bramble Pattern Golf Ball
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Bramble Pattern Challenger Golf Ball.
A good example of a 'The Challenger' bramble patterned rubber core golf ball. The golf ball is in good condition and is manufactured by Cochrane...
Category
British Vintage Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Rubber
Antique Golf Club, Steel "Spring Faced" Cleek with Short Hosel
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
A.G. Spalding & Bros. spring faced golf club iron, cleek.
A rare spring face cleek golf club with hickory shaft with a brittle rubber grip. The club is based on the principle of the...
Category
British Edwardian Antique Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Steel
Vintage Leather Wallet with Soft Interior Calf Skin with Silver Mounts
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Crock wallet.
A small faux crocodile leather wallet with silvered metal frame. The front with silver plaque inscribed with the initials W S H...
Category
British Antique Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Silver
4" Patent Lever Salmon Fly Fishing Reel By Farlow
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Farlow's Patent Lever Salmon Reel.
A very good 4" salmon fly fishing reel by Charles Farlow, London. The patent reel with four brass pillars, one with free rotating brass sleeve, all...
Category
British Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Aluminum, Brass
Vintage Rugby Ball Inkwell.
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Rare Novelty Rugby Inkwell.
A wonderful leather covered travelling inkwell in the shape of a rugby ball. This is a very desirable, rare and unusual object made from brass and covered...
Category
British Antique Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
Beautifully Carved Two Tone Malacca Gentleman's Walking Stick with Snakes
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Beautifully carved two tone Malacca Gentleman's walking stick with snakes
This is a finely carved piece with an enclosed fist as the handle and raised entwined serpents along the ...
Category
Arts and Crafts Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Wood
Military Hockey Team Photograph in India.
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Team Photograph, Hockey Team.
A team photograph of a military hockey team in India, 1919 - 1920. The sepia team photo is mounted on the official Cambridge photographers mount 'Charle...
Category
British Sporting Art Vintage Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Wood, Paper
1770s Style Cricket Bat, Unusual Shape
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Curved early oak cricket bat.
An unusual shaped, heavy weight, one piece cricket bat of the style used in the 1770s. The blade has an inward bow, convex surface, instead of being fl...
Category
British Antique Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Oak
Small Vintage Biscuit Tin With Polo Scene
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage Félix Potin Biscuit Tin With Polo Scenes.
A delightful vintage French biscuit tin for Félix Potin's praline filled wafers. The front of the tin with a scene of a polo match, to the side an image of polo equipment...
Category
French Sporting Art Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Tin
Wright & Ditson Antique Tennis Racket and Embroidered Yellow Cover "Susie"
By Wright & Ditson
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
An antique wooden Wright & Ditson The Hub tennis racket and yellow and green hand-embroidered racket cover. This tennis racket is unique in that it is mar...
Category
American Victorian Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Leather, Fabric, Wood
$280 Sale Price
20% Off
Deer Lodge Prison Horsehair Bridle
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
The horsehair bridle and crop were awarded to Mr. J.E. "Red" McCracken at a rodeo in 1920. It was made in Deer Lodge Prison.
Red had one brother, and his other passed away when they...
Category
American Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Natural Fiber
Presentation Cricket Ball, July 29th 1905
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Presentation Cricket Ball.
A very nice Victorian cricket ball with silver shield commemorating a hat trick by E.R Davies. The engraving states: Presented To E...
Category
British Sporting Art Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Silver
Early 20th Century Pair of English Lawn Bowls
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Early 20th century pair of lawn bowls in original case, English. Lignum vitae bowls in leather travel case with expected wear. Marked "MM" & "B".
Case: 10.5" w., 7.5" h., 5 3/8" d.
...
Category
English Edwardian Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Leather, Wood
Large Vintage Biscuit Tin With Polo Scene
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage Félix Potin Biscuit Tin With Polo Scenes.
A delightful vintage French biscuit tin for Félix Potin's praline filled wafers. The front of the tin with a scene of a polo match, to the side an image of polo equipment...
Category
French Sporting Art Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Tin
Vintage Uc Golf Scorer
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage Golf Scorer.
A rare Golf scorer," THE U.C. GOLF SCORE RECORDER", with scoring facility for Stroke play or Match play. The front with image of a golfer about to tee off. His c...
Category
British Sporting Art Vintage Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Plastic
Antique Royal Doulton Bowl, the Gallant Fisher in Ceramic
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage Royal Doulton fishing Ceramic.
A Royal Doulton Series Ware 'The Gallant Fishers' fishing bowl. The bowl is with a polychrome fishing scene of a fisherman lying on the river bank reading a book. The inscription around the edge reads 'And When The Timrous Trout I Wait To Take And He Devours My Bait'.
here is a slight foul to the side of the bowl, but may have been done when made as it is glazed over. The bottom has pattern number D3680 and has the special "The Gallant Fishers" back stamp. The stamp looks like an old English shop sign...
Category
British Sporting Art Vintage Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Ceramic
Baines Football Trade Card, South Liverpool
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Baines football trade card, South Liverpool.
A rare circular football trade card in the shape of a leather football ball. Made by the toy shop owner from Bradford, John Baines. Bain...
Category
English Sporting Art Vintage Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Antique Baines Golf Trade Card, Swindon
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Baines Golfing trade card, Swindon.
A rare circular golf trade card in the shape of a bramble golf ball. Made by the toy shop owner from Bradford, John Baines. Baines went on to produce not only football cards...
Category
British Sporting Art Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Hardy Uniqua Trout Fly Fishing Reel
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage Alloy Hardy Uniqua Trout Fishing Reel.
A good lightweight alloy 'Uniqua' 3 ½" fly fishing reel by Hardy Bros. Ltd. Alnwick, England. The alloy centerpin, revolving plate, sin...
Category
British Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Four Ladies Cigarette Cards by Ogdens
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Ogden Tab Cigarette Cards Of Ladies Golfers.
The four Ogden Tab Cigarette cards are of two lady golfers, Miss Issette Pearson and Miss Armstrong. The Ogden's cigarette cards are with...
Category
British Sporting Art Antique Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
$238 / set
Antique Weidlich Brothers Art Deco Male Bowling or Bowler Sculpture on a Base
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This sculpture was made by the Weidlich Brothers Manufacturing Company of the United States in approximately 1920 in the period Art Deco style. The s...
Category
American Art Deco Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Granite, Silver Plate
Vintage Brown Leather Medicine Ball, 1930s
Located in Praha, CZ
Original vintage heavy leather training ball with beautiful patina. The ball is made of handstitched genuine leather in former Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. It can be used as an origi...
Category
Czech Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Leather
Baines Football Trade Card, Hunslet Celtic, Play The Game
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Baines football trade card, Hunslet Celtic, Play The Game.
A rare circular football trade card in the shape of a leather football ball. Made by the toy shop owner from Bradford, John Baines. Baines went on to produce not only football cards...
Category
British Sporting Art Vintage Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Antique Golf Poster, Coq Sur Mer, De Haan, Belgium, 1897
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Antique golf poster.
A large continental advertising poster for Coq sur Mer, De Haan, Belgium, 1897. The image is in a faded condition, but this is an ext...
Category
Belgian Sporting Art Vintage Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Baines Football Trade Card, Bare, Well Dribbled
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Baines football trade card, bare. Well dribbled.
A rare circular football trade card in the shape of a leather football ball. Made by the toy shop owner from Bradford, John Baines. Baines went on to produce not only football cards...
Category
British Sporting Art Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Baines Golfing Trade Card, Swindon
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Baines Golfing trade card, Swindon.
A rare circular golf trade card in the shape of a bramble golf ball. Made by the toy shop owner from Bradford, John Baines. Baines went on to produce not only football cards...
Category
British Sporting Art Vintage Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Vintage Fox Hunting Print, Amorous Huntsman by Cecil Aldin
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage hunting print
An original fox hunting lithograph print 'The Amorous Huntsman' depicting a huntsman flirting with a serving girl throug...
Category
British Sporting Art Antique Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper, Wood
Baines Football Trade Card, Rochdale. Well Centred
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Baines football trade card, Rochdale. Well Centred.
A rare circular football trade card in the shape of a leather football ball. Made by the toy shop owner from Bradford, John Baines. Baines went on to produce not only football cards but eventually covered scores of different sports, from golf, cricket, tennis to horse racing and bowls, and just about any kind of sporting affiliations in just about every city, town and village in the UK. The cards were promoted in various prize competitions like finding certain "medal cards", collection a certain amount of empty packets. One could always submit a mini essay on sport with the winner having their writing printed on the backs of the cards. Hence why the backs are so varied and different.
The baines card offered for sale is printed in a yellow tone with a picture of a young boy playing football, 'The Village Champion', to the front with the words 'Well Centred, Rochdale'. To the reverse 'BAINES' gold medal football cards, We guarantee to give every week during our three months' Competition, 50 Jerseys, Shirts or Sweaters. Boys are requested to carefully read show bills...
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British Sporting Art Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Mint Condition Silver King Golf Ball
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Antique Mint Condition Silver King Golf Ball.
This is an exceptional golf ball in mint condition, never been used and still wrapped in its original wrap...
Category
British Vintage Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Rubber
Vintage Sepia Tent Pegging Photograph, Colonial
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Colonial tent pegging photograph, Poona 1903.
Rare sepia toned late Victorian Colonial photograph showing a group of horsemen 'Tent Pegging' with the caption 'Poona 1903'. The photo has been embossed...
Category
Indian Sporting Art Antique Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Vintage Bramble Patterned Golf Ball
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Bramble Golf Ball.
A bramble patterned golf ball. The ball is named but is very difficult to read but appears to be 'The H..p…'. The ball is of classic bramble pattern with raised di...
Category
English Edwardian Vintage Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Rubber
Rare Set of Four Framed Antique Boxing and Sports Collectible Cards
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Four groups of colored paper collectible sports cards mounted on blue paper pierced in the margin for placing in a notebook. Now mounted on off white card and custom framed.
The cards include images of boxers Al Kaufman, Mike Sullivan, Gans and Nelson and many others. Along with images of track and field and swim athletes. Some faded black printed faded paper ones with portraits of boxers e.g Jack...
Category
American Classical Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Vintage Golf Club Walking Stick, Sunday Club.
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Antique Sunday Club, Golf Club Walking Stick.
A desirable walking cane with the handle in the shape of a golf club head. The gentleman's walking stick has a persimmon socket head han...
Category
British Antique Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Hickory, Wood
Julius Schmidt-Felling Olympic Torch Bearer Bronze Sculpture, circa 1910
Located in San Francisco, CA
Julius Schmidt-Felling Olympic torch bearer bronze sculpture on marble base, circa 1910
Julius Paul Schmidt-Felling was a German sculptor. He designed ...
Category
German Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Bronze
Original Vintage Heavy Leather Training Ball with Beautiful Patina, the Ball
Located in Praha, CZ
Original vintage heavy leather training ball with beautiful patina. The ball is made of handstitched genuine leather in former Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. It can be used as an origi...
Category
Czech Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Leather
Mingays Patent, Gutta Percha, Golf Ball
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Mingays Liquid Core Bramble Golf Ball.
A very nice bramble pattern golf ball with original paint which remains bright and with minimal paint loss. The gutta percha covered, rubber co...
Category
British Antique Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Rubber
Vintage Sepia Tent Pegging Photograph
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Colonial Tent Pegging Photograph, Poona 1903.
Rare sepia toned late Victorian Colonial photograph showing a group of horsemen 'Tent Pegging' with the caption 'Poona 1903'. The photo has been embossed...
Category
Indian Sporting Art Antique Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Antique Bird Print, Signed by Archibald Thorburn, Partridge, Spring
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Signed Game Bird By Archibald Thorburn.
A game bird colotype print by Archibald Thorburn, titled 'Spring'. This is a single picture from a set of four called 'The Seasons'. Each sea...
Category
British Sporting Art Vintage Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paint, Giltwood, Paper
Sterling Silver Cricket Trophy, circa 1923
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is a handsome sterling silver trophy dating to circa 1923. Detailed in raised relief on the the goblet-shaped trophy is an energetic cricket scene. It shows a cricket batter as ...
Category
British Vintage Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Sterling Silver
Golf Painting by John Blair, Craigmillar Park G C
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Craigmillar Park Golf Club Watercolour, John Blair.
An atmospheric original watercolour of Craigmillar Park Golf Links in Edinburgh by the Scottish artist John Blair (1849-1934). Craigmillar Castle from which the club derives its name from is clearly seen in the background and the painting is signed to the lower left corner. Craigmillar Castle was a haunt of Mary Queen of Scots, the world's first recorded lady golfer. How ironic then, that since the golf club's inception equality of the sexes was the rule at Craigmillar Park.
John Blair was a Scottish painter, predominantly of watercolour landscapes. Of humble beginnings in Berwickshire, he moved to Edinburgh to study and spent the rest of his life there. His paintings mainly reflect the landscapes around him, both of urban settings and also of the castles, sea and lochs of the Borders. As well as his original work, his paintings were viewed by a wide audience in the form of picture postcards, book endpapers and illustrations.
Taken from Craigmillar Park Golf Club website:-
Craigmillar Park Golf Club was constituted in 1895 and moved to its present location in 1907. It was extended to 18 holes (designed by James Braid) in 1927.
On 12th of January 1895 the Scotsman newspaper carried the following "birth" announcement :
"NEW GOLF COURSE IN THE SOUTH SIDE OF EDINBURGH. A nine-hole golf course is being formed at Craigmillar Park and is expected to be ready for play in February. A lease of the ground which extends from Crawfurd Road to Lady Road has been obtained from Captain Gordon Gilmour of Liberton and Craigmillar. The principal entrance will be from Crawfurd Road within three minutes' walk of the Craigmillar Park car terminus and Newington Suburban Station. The course is about a mile in length and has been laid out by Mr. Day of Musselburgh, who has given a very favourable report of the suitability of the ground for the purpose. Already about 150 ladies and gentlemen have been admitted as members of the club."
Many, perhaps most, of the new clubs created about the same time as Craigmillar Park were (and some continue) as male preserves. It is clear that from the outset equality of the sexes was the rule at Craigmillar Park, although it was not until 1914 that the subscriptions were equalised.
The course was situated in an area of land close to Newington Railway Station and the Newington Bus and Tram Terminus and was thus, easily accessible. In those days there was very little building development between the course and the iconic Craigmillar Castle from which the club derives its name. The castle was a haunt of Mary Queen of Scots, the world's first recorded lady golfer. How ironic then, that since the golf club's inception, ladies have had equal status with men and there was no gender barrier to any office. This was in an age when golf clubs were regarded as male preserves. In 1914, ladies started paying exactly the same subscription as their male counterparts and this has remained right up to the present day. When you consider that all women did not get the vote until 1928, Craigmillar Park Golf Club were indeed trendsetters!
Despite the club's early success, with 400 members and a waiting list, they were dealt a blow when their course at Newington was taken over for housing development. They decided, rather than to disband, to relocate the golf course to the eastern slopes of the Blackford Hill in 1907. Once again the close proximity of Blackford Railway Station and Bus Terminus were factors in their decision making. Another factor in choosing Blackford Hill was the potential for increasing the length of the 9 holes that had been played for in the course at Newington and possibly even converting the new course to 18 holes at some future date. This is in fact what happened and James Braid designed a splendid 18 hole course which officially opened in 1927. The new course was a real test of golf with no two holes being the same. The course boasts marvellous views over Edinburgh and Fife and down the coast to the Berwick Law, Bass Rock...
Category
European Sporting Art Antique Early 20th Century Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
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