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Title: Collection of over 50 various golfing memorabilia items Author: ** Place: Various places Publisher: Date: [1960's-1990's] Description: Comprises: Brass door knocker with a swinging club hitting against a golf ball, “The Golf Bum” etched in front. Two holes for screws or nails. [1960’s]. * 1966 glass ashtray with gold and green stamping, lettered “Green Tee Invitational, 1966.” 8x8” and 1¾” deep. * Red and white printed paper coaster from the 66th USGA Open at Lakeside, 1966. * Collection of 14 pins and press passes for various tournaments, events and sport clubs, etc. (including American Airlines Golf Classic, Mapes Golf Invitational, etc.) from Art Rosenbaum, longtime San Francisco Bay Area newspaper reporter. [1960’s-1970’s]. * Plastic label with etched lettering “Horace Stoneham, Baseball Golf Tournament, 1971.” Stoneham was the one-time owner of the San Francisco Giants baseball team. * 4 American Airlines Golf Classic patches converted into pins. [1970’s]. * 13½" tall novelty golf club, lettered "Putt for Dough!" with 3 coins (a 1964 nickel, a 1965 dime, and a 1974 penny, inside 1-3/8" thick acrylic head, metal shaft and leather grip, club folds out to 35¼" tall. [mid-to late 1970's]. * Wooden golf ashtray in the shape of a club head with a 5½” handle, base 5½x4” and 2½” deep. [c. 1970’s]. * Golf ashtray, Lenox Chinaware, with golf ball design in center. 4½” in diameter. Made by Plummer Ltd., NY, [c. 1970’s]. * Two humorous 10x7” color prints from paintings by Norman Orr, tipped on card-stock backing, each showing a male golfer from the 1700’s, titled Fresh Air Shot (swinging and missing the ball) and ‘A penalty stroke’ (squeezing a fish to get his ball out while standing in a pond). [Late 1970’s]. * Willie McCovey S.F. Giants Press Club Testimonial pictorial pin, May 1979. * Zippo cigarette lighter, full metal, with bronze embossed emblem from the Presidio Golf Club on the front. Still works. [c. late 1970’s or early 1980’s]. * Collection of 8 pins from various sporting events, including 1979 Soviet Sports Exhibition, Vic Damone 1st Annual Celebrity Golf event, 1987 U.S. Open at the Olympic Club, San Francisco (Marshal badge), several AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am from the 1980’s, etc. [1970’s-1980’s]. * Super Bowl XIV color patch. 1980. * Brass statue figurine of a young Bobby Jones swinging a club, 4¾" tall on thin 1½x1¾" base, lettered in the sides, in front with "Robert T. Jones, Jr." and in the back "Golf House Collection." [c. early 1980's]. * Metal ashtray, 4” in diameter, with color illustrated ceramic middle titled “1981 U.S. Open, Merion.” * 2 circle metal pens (2” to 3”) from the Bing Crosby Pro-Am, Pebble Beach, one “Booster” 1981 and one “Grounds Grandstand” 1982, together framed and matted (10¾x7”). * Double-deck of playing cards issued by the Golf Collectors’ Society, one with a royal looking lady golfing and one with Old Tom Morris hitting, placed together inside original two-part plastic box. [c. early 1980’s]. * Wooden pineapple shaped ashtray, made in the Philippines with Spalding logo golf ball with Hawaii illustration, and 5 wooden tees inside tray, sealed in maker’s plastic wrap, Spalding sticker, made in USA, on front. 6x3½”. [c. early 1980’s]. * Miniature rolling metal golf bag pencil holder, 6" long with handle. No maker's marks. [c. early 1980's]. * 3¾x3¾” ceramic printing plate block replica, with embossed design, painted brown; typed paper label on back: “One of the early trademarks used by Wright & Ditson, a sporting goods firm started in 1871 by George Wright & Henry A. Ditson. Used Since: January 3, 1912. Golf Collectors’ Society 12th Annual Meeting, Chicago, October 1983.” Loosely placed on gold-colored metal display stand. * Small golfing figurine inside acrylic from the Embarcadero Center (San Francisco), 3½” tall. [c. early 1980’s]. * 2¼x3¼” color painted plaster or ceramic golf box, 1¼” deep with loose lid that has small sculptures of a bag with 3 clubs, 2 golf b