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 Collectable Golf Ball Advertising FiguresDuring the 1920’s, 30’s and 40’s leading golf ball manufacturing companies used shop counter point of sale advertising figures to encourage sales of their golf balls in Professional golf shops and retail sports shops.
There were limited numbers of figures available, and as you can imagine over the years, most have developed some signs of wear and tear. So a figure in good condition is very desirable to the collector and holds a high value. As a young assistant professional golfer in the Midlands during the early 1960’s, on my day off I used to play on other courses It wasn’t until years later when I returned to the Midlands as a Professional and met up with this same friend, also a When I told him that they had a value of around £850 each, the colour drained from his face. So now you can understand why so few survived and are only occasionally seen for sale.
Current valuation as follows: Penfold and Dunlop figures at £1,000 each. The Bromford figure realised £1,200 in a recent auction. The Scottie, standing on a plinth £1,300. The Scottie, without a plinth £1,000. The Silver King figure has fetched as much as £6,500 in auction The Silver Queen would hold an even higher value as one has never been sold in public auction. |
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The most common seen are the Penfold Man and the Dunlop Caddie. The rarer figures are the North British Scottie, the Bromford Man, the smaller Dunlop Caddie figure and the rarest of all the Silver King and Silver Queen figures.
with assistant professional friends of mine. At one really smart course in the West Midlands were my best friend was the assistant professional to his father, they used to have men caddies available for the members to hire. Attached to the rear of the Professional shop was a workshop which was also used as the caddie meeting place. On a long shelf attached to the back wall amongst club making tools were a row of about eight Penfold Men all lined up like a small army.
Professional but at a different club from his assistant days. I asked him what had happened to all the Penfold men. He said during the winter months when things were quiet on the golfing side, out of sheer boredom he and the caddies used to play a game throwing darts at the figures until each one was full of holes and disintegrated. The figures still in good condition had had their heads cut off in the vice, to see how they were made inside! 
The Penfold and Bromford figures were made out of papier-mache, the Dunlop figure from a composite material. The North British Scottie holding a ball in its mouth was made in ceramic by the Sylvac Company. But the Silver Queen, of which there is no record of one ever being sold and the Silver King figures were made out of a pressed card material. Webmaster |
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