Let There Be Light
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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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