2024 March Golf Memorabilia Auction - Closing Date 3/3/2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/4/2024
Bobby Jones The Esso Oil Company “Your Sports Quiz on Stamps” Advertising Booklet
The Esso Oil Company created a “Your Sports Quiz on Stamps” advertising booklet that its dealers could send to customers to promote their local Esso Service Center. Based on the dates within the questions contained in the brochure it to dates to the early 1950s.
The brochure was issued with a page of 2” x 1 ¾ “color stamps in the back which you would detach and paste on the page corresponding to the correct quiz question. Sports covered included baseball (Babe Ruth stamp) golf, tennis, basketball, swimming, and track and field.
The page in the book devoted to golf has the quiz question: “When did Bobby Jones win his first title match.? The page has the correct stamp pasted on it with an image of Bobby Jones with the caption “In 1911. Junior Champion of Georgia at age 14!”
A unique Bobby Jones ephemera item for the Bobby Jones collector who thought up to this point they had everything
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