Object Name: Club, Golf
Other Name: CLUB, WOOD, WOOD SHAFT
Date: 1860—80
Year Range from: 1860
Year Range to: 1880
Description: Wooden club with scared neck, leather grip and spliced clubhead with backweight and horn insert. Black finish and suggestion of maker’s stamp on top of clubhead. Face scored horizontally.
Maker: FORGAN, ANDREW
Material: wood, leather, horn, lead
Dimension Details: Overall: 40″; grip: 12 1/2; clubhead: 5″ x 1 3/4″ x 1 1/4″
Marks/Inscriptions: PUTTER BY P. McEWAN (redacted) A. FORGAN (written in faded ink), Musselburgh, Scotland PERIOD 1860—80, Donated by Alexander Mathieson of “Rangefinder Napier” Glasgow, Scotland, 2C
Object ID: GM 37
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