Folio III: Rubber-Cored Golf Balls

A-K 1920-1945

FOLIO III covers golf balls made between 1920 and 1945 with a ball name beginning with A-K.   

Each ball has a price evaluation.

FOLIO III comes in 2 different formats/editions; Gatsby and Vogue, two strong names representing the swinging 20s and 30s.

 THE GATSBY is hard-backed; strictly limited to 150 books and each book is numbered and signed by the author. Try and keep this one in mint un-marked condition; an heirloom.

ISBN: 978-1-7399879-4-7

SOLD OUT [15/11/2023]

 THE VOGUE is soft-backed; perfectly bound for easy use and reference. Mark this one with your annotations, acquisitions and values. 

ISBN: 978-1-7399879-9-2

Recommended Selling Price £35.00

BOTH editions comprise 175 pages of which 100 are in a spread sheet format, investigating and recording 1,150 golf balls supported by 450 plus golf ball illustrations. There are pages devoted to over 90 vintage golf ball adverts, many have never have been reproduced before; an intriguing time line article that answers the often cited question, relatively why are there so few surviving golf balls that were made in this period or earlier?

 Folio III also features plates containing over 200 wrapped balls and 300 un-wrapped balls as well as further colour plates showing 70 plus golf ball boxes from this exciting era.

 All in all it is a comprehensive work, a book that will create interest in vintage golf balls and help collectors understand a little more about these wonderful globes from the past.

 

 

 

Please add the amount shown below to cover postage and packaging. These prices are as low as I can go and are very competitive.

 1.   POSTAGE CHARGED FOR ONE GATSBY BOOK OR ONE VOGUE BOOK

·        UK 1st Class signed for                                                        £4.99

·        EUROPE Internationally Tracked                                                 £9.95

·        USA Internationally Tracked                                                         £15.20

·        CANADA Internationally Tracked                                                 £19.80

·        NZ Internationally Tracked                                                   £19.80

·        AUSTRALIA Internationally Tracked                                   £19.75

·        CHINA Internationally Tracked                                            £33.10

 

2.   POSTAGE FOR 2 GATSBY BOOKS  OR POSTAGE FOR 1 GATSBY AND 1 VOGUE BOOK OR 2 VOGUE BOOKS

·        UK 1st Class signed for                                                        £4.99

·        EUROPE Internationally Tracked                                       £12.10

·        USA Internationally Tracked                                                         £18.20

·        CANADA Internationally Tracked                                                  £22.70

·        NZ Internationally Tracked £50                                           £22.60

·        AUSTRALIA Internationally Tracked                                   £24.10

·        CHINA Internationally Tracked £50 compensation                    £38.50

 PAYMENT: By PayPal in £ Sterling

kevin.prgolf@gmail.com

 HOW TO MAKE AN ORDER??

1.   Email me with your order; kevin.prgolf@gmail.com

2.   With your address, postcode/zipcode, mobile/cell phone [to assist the freighters]

3.   How, when you have paid and how much including postal charges

 

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Here are examples of the many colour plates showing wrapped and un-wrapped vintage golf balls…

Folio III is scheduled to be published in early November 2023, to allow our overseas friends have theirs mailed out well in time for the Christmas Holidays

Folio III: For those of us who own the hard backed versions of Folio I and II we will endeavor to give you the same book number so that you may complete the set!

It is not too late to email me wrapped ball photographs from your collections that I may not have already; and rare, unusual golf balls named A-K; and vintage adverts!

PLEASE email me direct:

kevin.prgolf@gmail.com

  •  1150 golf balls listed and valued

  • A comprehensive article covering the period 1920 to 1945, explaining how the golf ball after several attempts by the authorities, changed in size and weight

  • Cover patterns shown and explained to include 4 styles of mesh and lattice patterned balls (8)

This shows at a glance how comprehensive Folio III will be, more details to follow…