Especially for the exhibition, which is titled ‘Fore’, the Cotswolds dealer has fabricated an old club house inside his showroom to create an appropriate setting for a broad collection of artwork, rare clubs, balls, ceramics and all manner of more quirky items.
The art on show has an original 1820s watercolour of ‘Thurso Bay’ featuring young golfers on the beach and a series of coloured lithographs by Cecil Aldin, one depicting ‘Royal St. George’s where this year’s Open Championship will be played.
Among the objects are golf trophies, car mascots, advertising display models and toys.
Prices range from £58 for a 1929
first edition through £580 for a pair of vintage leather golf boots to £24,500 for an oil of Murrayfield Golf Club by
J.A. Henderson Tarbet.
The show is timed to herald the Master’s Tournament in the United States, but cheaper than the air fare to Augusta, Georgia is the exhibition catalogue which is available at £8.
Schotten on the green with golf show
FOR the fourth year the Oxfordshire specialist in sporting antiques Manfred Schotten and the London picture dealer Nick Potter have got together for a selling exhibition of golfing art and memorabilia, but for the first time this year the show, which runs until April 17, will be held at Mr Schotten’s shop in Burford.
