The Official Price Guide to Golf Collectibles (Official Price Guide)
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Book Description
BECOME AN ABOVE-PAR COLLECTOR!
This comprehensive guide to all things golf walks you through an 18-hole game of collectibles. With a fascinating history of the 300-year-old sport, this book provides both the information you need to build a collection and advice about the traps that may await you in the form of fakes and overpriced items. Whether you just bought your first Whistler club or you're a veteran looking to expand your collection with a $1,950 Blacksmith Cleek iron, tee up for fun and profit!
• The 1st Hole: The evolution of the game, detailing the changes in balls and clubs.
• The 2nd Hole: The fun and profitable pastime of collecting golf artifacts, from common $300 clubs to a "featherie" ball that fetches upwards of $20,000.
• The 3rd Hole: What makes a golf collectible valuable—judging condition, rarity, and desirability.
• The 8th Hole: Where the finds are and how to finalize sales.
• The 9th Hole: How to buy on the Internet without winding up in the "rough".
• The 15th Hole: Medals, magazines, scorecards, trophies, and autographs.
• The 18th Hole: Tips on preserving, storing, and displaying golf collectibles.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO BECOME THE TIGER WOODS OF COLLECTORS!
About the Author
EDWARD KIERSH, editor of Golf Course Register and golf features editor for Sport magazine, has written extensively about collectibles. As a special correspondent for Cigar Aficionado magazine, he wrote about high-priced original manuscripts and autographs. For Cigar, he covered coins, stamps, and cameras. The author of Where Have You Gone, Vince DiMaggio? and the forthcoming Instant Expert: Collecting Pens, he lives in Westport, Connecticut, with his wife and son.
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