old golf tray

[joepolkey]

i only have this photo

[waywardangler]

I think the "dirt" on your tray may be shoe polish to "age" the look. The high spots do not exhibit ordinary wear from use as a drink or serving tray. The golfer's crotch has been somewhat painted in but is still weird. The face is too hard to see from the darkened film. I think that your tray has the same problems as the eBay tray and believe it is of newer manufacture.

Your tray is on the left and the eBay tray is on the right. I have fiddled with trying to get your pic lighter to show more detail but did not succeed.

The details are slightly different so someone is hand-painting these.

[joepolkey]

im glad im getting a little help there has to be more to this tray

[KC]

joepoikey, you can even try contacting the gift shop or "contact us" on the St Andrews golf club site and ask them....maybe they will reply.
I am attaching their web address:  http://www.randa.org/

They would if in fact it was a highly prized piece....but unfortunately I don't think it is.

The hard thing about this site is that many people bring valuable items to get big value appraisals for free.  We love to help and have helped many a person.  However, so many times the value is in really liking the item/sentimentality.....and not in the monetary sense.  We all have been there and thought we had very valuable items to only find out they weren't.  Unless there is something that we have missed....I am sorry and my opinion/expertise is that I believe it to be an art/decorative piece and not a historical piece.  Fun tho'!

[hosman321]

Neither of them look antique at all, in my opinion. The tray in question has definitely been artificially aged. The one on ebay looks way too new. The bottom of it has no wear whatsoever. I guess it has been unused, stored in a dark temperature controlled enviornment and was just discovered.

[joepolkey]

i wanted to give a little more info on the tray because even though i havent got any good concrete info i see some of you know things it is heavy laquered it does have some sort of paint on it but heres the big question hows mine end up in angie la and the other one on ebay is in the uk

[waywardangler]

Pier 1 is everywhere.

The BIGGER question is how does a supposedly pre-1900 tray from the oldest golf course in Scotland end up in Angie, LA? That is the answer you should be looking for.