Button # 227
Image submitted by Dixon Pickup
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Button # 227a
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Description
Isle of Scilly Golf Club - The club was founded in 1904 at St Mary’s near Hughtown.
The slightly convex uniform gilt example (24.5mm) displays a roped edge, usually
indicative of a maritime location, a strap bearing the full club title, and a rather curious
central figure: the male player, a left hander, is depicted at the end of the swing but playing
away from the viewer. He wears a work-a-day suit of the Edwardian era and a billycock
hat; the club is more akin to a ragged-staff. One feels the die-maker was having a bad
day when this item was concocted. The reverse, ironically, is marked Superior Quality.
Extraordinarily, I have an identical example, save for change of title, named to the old
Raynes Park GC, Surrey, thus proving the roped edge theory is not sound.
Information is from an article in
"The British Golf Collectors Society" written by Dixon Pickup.
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Isle of Scilly Golf Club
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