VINTAGE VERY RARE KROYDON ASTRONAUT BOX SET-PRISTINE SLEEVES PACE RACE ERA NOS. MADE BY KROYDON BASED OUT OF MAPLEWOOD, NJ. FOUNDED IN 1918, KROYDON WAS A RESPECTED GOLF CLUB AND SHAFT MAKER AND EVENTUALLY GO INTO THE GOLF BALL BUSINESS. AFTER INITIALLY OUTSOURCING PRODUCTION THEY DID BRING THIS INTO THEIR OWN FACILITY. THIS BOX AND BALLS IS FROM THE SPACE AGE RACE ERA. RELEASED IN 1962 DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE US-SOVIET SPACE RACE AND NASA'S EARLY MERCURY MISSIONS, THIS SET FEATURES ICONIC, VIBRANT MID-CENTURY LITHOGRAPH BOX ART DEPICTING AN ASRTONAUT CHIPPING A GOLF BALL RIGHT OFF THE MOON SURFACE. AMAZINGLY, THIS GRAPHIC PREDATES ACTUAL LUNAR GOLF BY NEARLY A DECADE (BEOFRE ALAN SHEPARD'S FAMOUS APOLLO 14 SHOTS IN 1971)! THE INDIVIDUAL SLEEVES STILL RETAIN THEIR ORIGINAL "DEC 66" PRICE TAGS FROM THE ORIGINAL RETAILER ADDING FANTASTIC, VERIFIABLE PROVENANCE TO THE PIECE. WHETHER YOU ARE A COLLECTOR OF VINTAGE GOLF MEMORBILLA, A 1960'S ADVERTISING ENTHUSIAST, OR A NASA/SPACE EXPLORATION BUFF, THIS IS A PHONOMENAL DISPLAY PIECE THAT RARELY POPS UP IN THIS PRESERVED, UNHIT CONDITION.

THIS ITEM WILL BE PACKED WITH EXTREME CARE TO PRESERVE THE CONDITION AND COMES FROM A SMOKE FREE, CLIMATE CONTROLLED HOME. THANKS FOR LOOKING AND PLEASE CHECK OUT MY OTHER VINTAGE GOLF BALL LISTINGS. SHIPPING WITH INSURANCE, WILL BE SAME OR NEXT DAY AFTER PAYMENT IS RECEIVED.