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THE DUNN FAMILY
The Dunn family story begins with the twin brothers, Willie and Jamie, both apprenticed to the ball maker W. & J. Gourlay, at Bruntsfield. Together they achieved fame as golfers in a number of celebrated challenge matches for wagers. At the age of thirty, in 1851, Willie was appointed 'Keeper of the Green' at Blackheath, where he stayed for fourteen years, being joined by his brother Jamie in 1854.
Willie Dunn, before leaving Musselburgh, was making early guttas. He had been trained as a feathery ballmaker, but after moving to Blackheath certainly established a ballmaking business - Dunn of London. It says something for his reputation that in the late 1850s they were being ordered from Edinburgh by the Royal Burgess Society. The Dunns must have made many clubs whilst at Blackheath. Jamie Dunn did not marry until late in life and had no children, but Willie had two sons - Tom (1849-1902) and Willie Jr. (1865-1925), who was born while the family were at Blackheath.
A LONG-NOSED SCARED-HEAD SHORT SPOON
BY THOMAS DUNN, CIRCA 1875
细节
A LONG-NOSED SCARED-HEAD SHORT SPOON
BY THOMAS DUNN, CIRCA 1875
The stained head stamped 'T. Dunn', the hickory shaft stamped 'H.A. Peto'
BY THOMAS DUNN, CIRCA 1875
The stained head stamped 'T. Dunn', the hickory shaft stamped 'H.A. Peto'
来源
Sotheby's Musselburgh, 13 July 1992, lot 107.
荣誉呈献
Philip Harley