Curling and Golf
19th and 20th century photographs and postcards
Estimate: £400 - £500
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Curling: 19th-century photograph of the Forest team who won the Borders Championship in 1899, 20 x 15cm; late 19th-century curling photograph, 32 x 22cm; 1937 press photograph of stone sculptors, 25 x 20cm; magic lantern slide of a curling match and a modern enlargement; 3 early 20th-century curling postcards; album of George A. Boothby and Jean Home Graham-Stirling comprising 294 snapshot photographs, and newspaper clippings, of their wedding day, golf, fishing, hunting, travel, rural Scotland; 4 further photographs of curlers;
Golf: group of 23 press photographs of golf matches/tournaments and golfers including the Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Duke of York (George VI), and 7 of women golfers, 25.5 x 20.5cm and 15.5 x 9.5cm; 2 snapshot photographs of women golfers, circa 1900; 8 postcards of golfers, clubhouses and a boy playing golf in the street in Inverallochy (38+)
Provenance
Formerly owned by the Late Murray Mackinnon, a renowned collector of photography documenting Scottish life from the mid-19th to early-20th century.