Summer Premium and Catalog Auction July 31 & Aug 8
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/9/2015
Perhaps no other sport is quite as popular with amateurs as it is with professionals as golf. Weekend duffers and country club players often have days out on the lynx that have them fantasizing about competing with the pros, and no other professional sport also offers as many Pro/Am tournaments as golf where this actually happens. Perhaps the greatest amateur golfer of them all, Bobby Jones, born on St. Patrick’s Day 1902, was a professional lawyer by trade and passionate amateur golfer who became a much better player than many among the game’s professional ranks in the 1920s and early 1930s. After retiring from competition at the age of 28, Jones became a successful golf instructor and designer of equipment but his greatest claim to fame might as designer of the Augusta National Golf Course that originally bore his name and as the co-founder of the Masters Golf Tournament.
This historic 3.5” x 6.5” first day cover envelope contains a red, white and blue lithograph print of the original Augusta National Golf Club stationery with an illustration of a golfer who looks like Jones next to the now familiar Augusta National Golf Club logo above text reading: Robert T. (Bobby) Jones Course Opening Jan. 13, 1933. Augusta, Ga. Drawings of dimpled golf balls are used in place of each letter O. This first day cover has a three cent X Olympiad Los Angeles 1932 stamp on the upper right corner and has been post marked “Augusta Jan. 13 11:30 AM 1933 GA.” Bobby Jones’s “Robert Jones” signature is in steel tip fountain pen just below the post mark and the envelope is contained in a PSA/DNA slab grading Mint 9 and autograph grade number 81989228. This is the earliest Augusta Masters item we have ever encountered.
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