Princess Dagmar print painted and engraved by Edwin Henry Hunt c1881. Printed by George Rees 41 42 43 Russell Street Covent Garden and 115 Strand. Princess Dagmar was the winner of the prestigious Waterloo Cup, a premier hare coursing event, in 1881. She was one of the famous litter by Ptarmigan out of Gallant Foe which included Paris, a very fast greyhound which at stud became one of the essential building blocks of the modern greyhound DNA. He sired Miss Glendyne and Bit O’Fashion, dividers of the Waterloo in 1885. The antique walnut frame measures 21 x 26 inches and the print measures 19 x inhces.
Autographed first edition 1974 copy of "Like It Is" by Howard Cosell. Good condition hard cover with dust jacket.
Vintage aluminum Bag Boy golf club caddy circa 1950. Excellent original condition. Everything works as it should. The cart moves effortlessly, indicative of the quality craftsmanship available during that era.
Original box of The Reddy Tee, made by The Nieblo MFG. Co. The first wooden tee was patented in 1899 by Dr. George F. Grant of Boston, but it was not widely used since he did not market it, according to golf historians. 'This idea of a wooden golf tee sort of languished until you had Dr. William Lowell experimenting in his garage in the 1920s,' said Rand Jerris, director of the museum and archives of the United States Golf Association, in Far Hills, NJ. Lowell filed his application on May 5, 1922, and was granted patent No. 1,493,687 on May 13, 1924. He painted them red, formed the Reddy Tee Co., and hired two professional golfers, Walter Hagen (whom he paid $1500) and Joe Kirkwood, an Australian, to use his product in 1924 as the pair played exhibition matches. 'They were the perfect sort of showmen,' Jerris said. 'They did a great job of promoting the product. The pros would leave the pegs in the ground after they hit, and spectators would scramble to retrieve them.' Other inventors and patents soon followed. Within a couple of years the sand tee disappeared. Reddy Tee has also faded into history, and USGA records indicate that Lowell eventually lost his patent after a long legal struggle.
17th to 18th century steel and brass Spanish Colonial horse stirrups. Hand made by a master blacksmith. Note the cut-out steel brackets set with steel pins. Each stirrup measures 6.5 inches high, 7.5 inches long and 5 inches deep. Excellent condition.