Let There Be Light

On December 18, 2008 at Sotheby's auction rooms in New York city, this Tiffany lamp was offered. The inscription on the lamps base reads :

Advertising Tournament

Pinehurst 1909

36 Holes Gross Score

Qualifying Round

Presented By

The Tiffany Studios

Won By

Joseph P. Knapp

When The Hammer Came Down Ten Days Ago, The Auctioneer Said ,

"Sold For Forty Six Thousand , Eight Hundred and Seventy Five Dollars"

This Lamp, Which May Of Been In The Knapp Family For A Few Weeks Shy Of 100 Years, Has Now Passed On To A Collector . I Wonder What J. P. Would Of Thought About That ? And I Wonder If The New Owner Knows Or Cares To Know Anything About The Man Who First Turned On This Lamps Light?

The man who built Bellport, Long Island's First Golf Course in 1899, J . P . Knapp (on the right) , drives one down the fairway down south in 1915

Take A Trip To Pinehurst NC

The Home Long Leaf Yellow Pine & Plenty Of Them

Pinehurst Was The Golf & Resort Destination In The Early 1900's

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