1951 Masters Tournament Presentation Box

        Presented here is a rare piece of memorabilia from one of the most famous golf tournaments of all-time - the 1951 Masters Tournament won by Ben Hogan.  This presentation box is inlaid with a participant's medal from that 1951 Masters.  1951 was also the first year that a medal was given to the Masters Tournament Champion and Runner-Up.  Those medals are strikingly similar to the one presented here.  A handful of these boxes have surfaced in the last several years that belonged to people who played in that 1951 Tournament.  Interestingly, this box is engraved "Mrs. Forest Norton," whom obviously did not play in the 1951 Masters.  Nor could she have been an Augusta National member.  While we don't know the identity of Mrs. Norton or why one of these boxes would have been made for her, we do know that very few of pieces of memorabilia exist from Ben Hogan's 1951 Masters Tournament victory, and this is certainly one of the finest.