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Auction Name Rare Golf Books and Memorabilia Total Sales (USD) 144,726.00
Auction Date August 22, 2013 - August 22, 2013 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 165,150.00
Sale Number #513 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 252,530.00
Total Lots 587
Sold Lots 382.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 218,800.00
% of Lots Sold 65.08% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 335,410.00
Unsold Lots 205 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 43.15%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
174 **

Golf: A Weekly Record of “Ye Royal and Ancient” Game. Volumes I-XVIII (1891-1899) [&] Golf Illustrated. Volumes I-LXIII (1899-1914)

 1891 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 12,000.00
260 Mackenzie, Dr. A[lister]

Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and Green-Keeping - rare inscribed copy in a dust jacket

 1920 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,600.00
234 Jones, Robert T[yre] (''Bobby''), Jr. & O. B. Keeler

Down the Fairway: The Golf Life and Play of Robert T. Jones, Jr.

 1927 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 5,700.00
254 Macdonald, Charles Blair

Scotland's Gift: Golf - with rare publisher's two-part box

 1928 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 4,800.00
403 Traylor, Melvin A., USGA President

Official Souvenir Book of the United States Golf Association, Thirty Second National Amateur Golf Championship, Brae Burn Country Club, September 10-15, 1928 - Signed by Bobby Jones

 1928 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,500.00
255 Macdonald, Charles Blair

Scotland's Gift: Golf

 1928 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,300.00
266 Marsh, Thomas

Blackheath Golfing Lays by the Poet-Laureate of the Club

 1873 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,000.00
198 Hilton, Harold H.

Small piece of paper signed by Harold Hilton

 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,700.00
217 Hutchinson, Horace G.

Golf: The Badminton Library

 1890 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,400.00
298 Park, Willie

The Art of Putting - Inscribed

 1920 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,400.00
538

10K P.G.A. Ryder Cup 1929 Team Pin, with small inlaid pearls

 1929 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 2,400.00
302

Thirty original press and publicity photographs of golfer/sportswoman Glenna Collett

 1929 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,280.00
291 Ouimet, Francis

A Game of Golf: A Book of Reminiscence

 1932 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,040.00
15 Balfour, James

Reminiscences of Golf on St. Andrews Links

 1887 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,920.00
224 Jones, Bob [Robert (Bobby) T[yre], Jr.]

Rights and Wrongs of Golf - with card signed by Bobby Jones

 1935 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,920.00
228 Golf Club Bird Sanctuary Committee

Golf Clubs as Bird Sanctuaries

 1920 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,800.00
445 Clapsaddle, Ellen H[attie]

Stone color lithograph of a lady golfer - rare printer's proof

 1905 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,680.00
339

Laws and Acts of Parliament Made by King James the First and His Royal Successors, Kings and Queen of Scotland. [

 1682 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,320.00
404 Douglas, Findlay S., USGA President

Official Souvenir Book of the Thirty-Third National Amateur Championship, United States Golf Association, Pebble Beach Del Monte, California, September 2-7, 1929

 1929 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,200.00
53 [Clark, Robert]

Poems on Golf

 1867 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,200.00
577

Custom wooden table, base made of four hickory shafted golf clubs

 1930 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,140.00
293 Ouimet, Francis

Golf Facts for Young People

 1921 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,080.00
429

Souvenir Program Thirty-Third Tournament for the Women's Amateur Golf Championship of the United States

 1929 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,020.00
51 [Clapcott, C.B.]

The Rules of Golf of the Ten Oldest Golf Clubs from 1754 to 1848, Together with the Rules of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews for the Years 1858, 1875, 1888

 1935 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,020.00
303

Cabinet card photograph of Captain George Molesworth and his three sons, Reginald, George and Arthur

 1875 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 960.00
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