Literature:
Flannery & Leech (see above). This work also illustrates the first use of a wooden tee in a golf-like game (ca. 1580), documents its use in mail (1610, and illustrates its use in Mail รค la Chicane, 1624. Wooden, cellulose and other tees first appeared in golf at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries.
Exhibition History:
Unknown
Condition:
Both are in amazingly fine condition, Although one had suffered damage and was repaired and re-fired, there is no evidence of repairs. Extremely decorative and rare.
Description / Expertise
Extremely rare pair of Victorian Golf Teemarkers, in the form of pots with stylised shell handles, used not only to indicate the teeing area, but also as containers for the sand used to make tees upon which the ball was placed for the drive. Each has a decorative incised raised shield reading: '294 Yds No 14', and '316 Yds No 8', respectively. (See Flannery & Leech, Golf Through The Ages, 600 Years of Golfing Art, Plate 251, p.251, for a beautiful painting of a caddy teeing a gutty ball on a sand tee.)
The ceramic pots are marked, Sutton & Co., later the Sutton Seed Company.
Price gbp 1450.00 (Pound Sterling)
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