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Antique Golf Clubs from Scotland
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Sportsmans Emporium
Glasgow/Edinburgh
Known principally as a retailer but also a maker of clubs through the company's founder Charles Ingram Annan.

He started the business in St Vincent Street, Glasgow, in 1896 and converted it to a joint stock company with capital of £5000 later that year as ‘The Sportsman’s and General Emporium’. it was advertising ‘sale at unheard of prices of golf clubs’ from Tom Morris, Willie Park, Robert Simpson, Charles Brand, A H Scott, Patrick of Leven, J & D Clark, Anderson of Edinburgh and Anderson of Anstruther. For whatever reason, the company was liquidated in October 1898 but the business continued, expanding quickly,

In 1909, a branch opened in Edinburgh at 33 Frederick Street (also using the name Golfer’s Emporium).

Between this time and the advent of the First World War it advertised 'the largest selection of clubs in the world'.

Annan died in 1931 and the following year the business was reorganised as a limited company with £10,000 capital. In addition to equipment for golfing and many other sports, it was a major outlet for tickets for Scotland football and rugby internationals and cup finals with queues often forming in the early hours of the morning. The company was liquidated in the 1980s.

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