BOBBY JONES Art and Collectibles

This vintage, signed Bobby Jones photograph is a unique example of golf’s most desirable autograph because it appears on a first generation original image. The photograph, which was taken at Augusta in 1940, shows the legend finishing his classic swing and is inscribed with the salutation, “To H 6 # Key School, With Best Wishes, Robert T. Jones Jr.” This is an exceptionally bold, full flowing fountain pen autographed photo. Unframed.

Once Bobby Jones had conquered all challenges of tournament golf, he turned his attention to being the game’s greatest ambassador and director of the American Golf Institute. This 1938 vintage autographed Bobby Jones letter is on institute stationery and speaks of the organization’s role in the growth of golf. In part, “I’m very grateful indeed for your most recent letter telling me in more detail of the activities of your golf school.” The letter has been signed in full by Jones as “Director” and is beautifully framed with two 8x10 first generation sepia photographs of the legendary champion. Overall size of this piece is 27” x 27”.

Bobby Jones letter to Charles Price (first editor of Golf Magazine) on personal letterhead framed with swing photo and a copy of the September 1960 Golf Magazine. This issue of Golf was dedicated to Jones and the 30th anniversary of his 1930 Grand Slam. Signed by Bobby Jones over his signature box. Size 26x29

To the question, “How great was Bobby Jones?” the answer is usually given, “look at the record.” It is a record without parallel. An amateur, he won 13 of the world’s major titles in a space of just eight years beginning in 1923 – the U.S. Amateur five times, the U.S. Open four times, the British Open three times and the British Amateur once. He compiled this incredible record before the age of 30, and in his last competitive year, 1930, won the Open and Amateur titles of both countries – a feat now known as the Grand Slam of golf. In 11 U.S. Open performances starting in 1920, he claimed four titles, finished second four times and placed fifth, eighth and eleventh in the others. Much more than just a superb golfer, Jones was also one of the game’s most intelligent men. A graduate of Georgia Tech and Harvard, he held degrees in engineering, literature, and law. He wrote lucidly and deeply about the game, authoring a number of the sport’s greatest books. The high example of sportsmanship he set, without any compromise of competitive spirit, lives on in the Masters Tournament at Augusta National, a course he and Alister Mackenzie co-designed.

This is an extremely bold vintage autograph framed with an 11x14 photograph of the legendary amateur champion. Beautiful.

A full bronze by artist Chapel, this ¼ size figure of Bobby Jones blasting out of a bunker sits on a stainless steel base and has a multiple toned patina finish. The bronze stands approximately 19" tall and weighs approximately 30 pounds. The edition is limited to 500 bronzes.

Every golf aficionado’s dream-of-a-lifetime -- a National Champion's tools-of-the-trade. These exquisite forged hickory-shafted clubs are a complete reproduction of the clubs Bobby Jones actually carried during his remarkable 1930 “Grand Slam.” Handcrafted by Heritage Golf in St. Andrews, Scotland, each set of fourteen clubs is fully playable, individually numbered and accompanied by a letter of authenticity. To learn more about Bobby Jones’ Grand Slam year we have included a booklet, which also features information on the whereabouts of the original clubs. Each set is one of only 1,930 available. The 14 club set includes: Driver, 3-Wood, Driving Iron, Iron (1), Mid-Iron (2), Mashie-Iron (3), Iron (4), Mashie (5), Spade-Mashie (6), Mashie-Niblick (7), Niblick (8), Cleek Iron, Concave-Sand Wedge and Jones’ famous putter (Calamity Jane). Enjoy this fine collection and feel history in your hands. To complete your set, we offer two additional persimmon fairway woods: a Brassie and Long Spoon -- both carried by Bobby Jones in 1930. Price includes $150 to cover shipping and insurance from St. Andrews, Scotland.

Order your copy of the 75th anniversary, limited-edition of Down the Fairway, the classic autobiography by Bobby Jones. The release coincides with the 100th anniversary of Bobby Jones's birth on St. Patrick's Day, 1902. Limited to only 100 copies, each of these hand-crafted books is sewn with Irish linen thread and hand-bound in tanned East Indian goatskin leather. The cover features a blind-embossed illustration of Jones, with the title in hand-laid gold lettering. Additionally, golf legend Jack Nicklaus has signd each copy, while hidden within the book's gilt edges is a fore-edge painting of Bobby Jones at St. Andrews -- making this book a one-of-a-kind work of art.

Golf Links to the Past and Wallasey Golf Club offer the opportunity to own a superb canvas textured reproduction of J.A.A. Berrie's famous portrait of golf legend Bobby Jones. This portrait marked the first time Jones sat for a British artist. Referring to the event some time later, Jones said: "Mr. Berrie kept me occupied for not more than thirty minutes and during that time pleasantly refreshed me with whisky and soda. As an object lesson in painless portraiture, this was the best I have seen." Although other similar portraits exist, Wallasey's is the original. Bobby Jones was so delighted with the work that he signed it -- the only occasion he did this. Limited to 100 framed editions -- each is 23x19 in size.

There have been more than a few commemorative postal covers designed and issued to honor the legendary Bobby Jones. But the “Holy Grail” of first day covers is the one cancelled in Augusta, Georgia on January 13, 1933. This cover was issued to celebrate the grand opening of Augusta National Golf Club, the collaborative design effort of Bobby Jones and Dr. Alister Mackenzie. At the time, few could have dreamed of the lasting impact these 18 holes would have on the game of golf. Augusta National now plays host to golf’s most celebrated major championship, the “Masters.” This unframed postal cover represents a wonderful piece of original club history.

Limited-edition of only 50 made exclusively for Golf Links to the Past by San Francisco based Mulholland Brothers this vintage-inspired Sunday bag is a perfect complement to the Bobby Jones Golf Clubs (sold seperately).

Rice, Grantland, THE BOBBY JONES STORY, 1953, 1st edition, DJ, inscribed and signed copy by Eleanor Keeler (O.B. Keeler’s wife ) to whom the book is dedicated. A very nice copy.

This unique 1925 instructional featuring the great Bobby Jones on the cover, comes from the Spalding Athletic Library and is titled GOLF GUIDE: Playing Rules of the U.S.G.A. The item is 147 pages, featuring advertisements, illustrations from photographs and a removable pocketsize copy of the Rules of Golf (intact and attached). Edited by Grantland Rice.

This print by Greg Rudd, the exclusive licensed artist for the Jones family, shows a young Bobby Jones, playing in his first U.S. Open (1920), and Harry Vardon, the legendary English champion, meeting for the first time. The edition is limited to 800 signed and numbered prints. Print size 24"x30".