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Archival print, framed and hung — a styled render, not the exact frame shipped.
Portraits, the Grand Match, and the Clubhouse Wall · Portraits of the Company
Young Tom Morris with the Championship Belt
period photograph, c. 1873 · photograph
What it is
Young Tom Morris wearing the Open Championship Belt — which he won three straight times, and so kept for good.
Why it matters
Four Opens by twenty-one, dead by twenty-four; the game’s first prodigy and its first heartbreak.
What to notice
The belt is the trophy — the claret jug did not yet exist; he is the reason it had to.
Some players end an era by winning it too completely.
Provenance
- Maker
- period photograph, c. 1873
- Era
- The Gutty (1848–1900)
- Chapter
- The Golden Age
- Medium
- photograph
- Made
- 1873
- Figure
- Young Tom Morris
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (public domain, c. 1873)
Publicity
Clear — a long-deceased figure with no post-mortem right of publicity in play. Sold as history, freely and openly.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the work’s own year of publication. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution doesn't clear our floor for a physical print, so this piece is offered as a digital download only.
Size
$29.00
