A LONG-NOSE SCARED-HEAD PLAY-CLUB

EARLY MID-18TH CENTURY

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Price Realized

£30,000 (Set Currency)
($46,800)

Estimate

£30,000 - £50,000
($47,010 - $78,350)

Sale Information

Sale 6021 —
Origins of Golf: The Jaime Ortiz-Patino Collection
30 May 2012
London, King Street
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Lot Description

A LONG-NOSE SCARED-HEAD PLAY-CLUB
EARLY MID-18TH CENTURY
The head grained and with later string whipping and red and white canvas listing
51½ in. (131 cm.) long

Provenance

Cowdray Park Golf Club.
Sloane's Miami, 18 March 2001, lot 187.

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Lot Notes

This is one of a rare group of early 18th Century golf clubs known to exist. All are playclubs and bear this red keel finish, the extremely long shaft, the extended heel lead, thick horn inset and thick scare neck. In some respects it is comparable to, but slightly later than, the Royal Troon clubs and others in the collections of the Royal and Ancient at St Andrews. Royal Musselburgh and the Royal Burgess. A similar club is depicted in the famous portrait of Sir James and Sir Alexander MacDonald by William Mosman in the collections of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.