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To: SunkenCiv

19th century golf balls had gutta percha covers.


3 posted on 08/03/2022 6:29:55 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.” Hebrews 10:24)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

If ya gonna play golf, ya gotta perchase some.

https://algarvegolf.holiday/blog/history-of-golf-balls/


4 posted on 08/03/2022 6:34:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

BTW, this was hilariously dumb — 19th c golf balls, mostly unused, for sale, made about 1930. [sic]

https://www.mostlyboxesantiques.com/product/antique-precious-metal-snuff-boxes/a-box-of-early-19th-century-golf-balls-mostly-unused/


5 posted on 08/03/2022 6:36:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

A book about it:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410958.A_Thread_Across_the_Ocean


9 posted on 08/03/2022 6:40:43 PM PDT by pa_dweller (Let's all go out for ice cream.)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

I think it’s still used in endodontics.


23 posted on 08/03/2022 7:40:17 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Hebrews 11:6
19th century golf balls had gutta percha covers.

The word "gutta percha" appears in James Joyce's novel The Dead in reference to winter galoshes. (Or at least in the movie version, starring Anjelica Huston.)

34 posted on 08/04/2022 9:18:29 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Liz Cheney, Trump’s personal Javert..."--Michael Anton)
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