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Francis Ouimet

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:NA Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
Francis Ouimet

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Auction Date:2010 Feb 10 @ 08:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Golf’s first great American hero who, at the 1913 US Open at the Country Club, changed the perceptions of an entire sport with a stunning triumph that captured the imagination of sports fans across the globe…and swept away the notion that golf was a stuffy game for rich old men. Vintage fountain pen signature, “Francis Ouimet, 10/2/36,” on a 5.5 x 2.75 blue card from the Albert R. Chestnut collection. Attached to a slightly larger heavy gray card, with light toning to right edge, otherwise fine condition. From his Pennsylvania home, Chestnut, a printer by profession, began collecting autographs in 1935. He sent these personally-printed cards to over a thousand celebrities and received favorable replies from the vast majority, finally retiring from collecting to raise his family when postage increased from 2¢ per card! Pre-certified Steve Grad/PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.