Object Name: Club, Golf
Other Name: CLUB
Date: 1905—10?
Year Range from: 1905
Year Range to: 1910
Description: Wooden club with leather grip, socket head, brass sole plate, triangular black face insert. Natural finish on shaft and dark finish on clubhead. Replacement neck whipping and backweight. Replacement clubhead on shaft. Large maker’s mark.
Club head and shaft not contemporary of each other. Splice end shaft adapted to fit socket clubhead. Newer neck whipping added. Damage on clubhead does not match lack of wear on grip and shaft. No shaft stamp.
Maker: BONNER, W.J.
Club head and shaft not contemporary of each other. Splice end shaft adapted to fit socket clubhead. Newer neck whipping added. Damage on clubhead does not match lack of wear on grip and shaft. No shaft stamp.
Maker: BONNER, W.J.
Material: wood, leather, horn, brass
Dimension Details: Oer—all: 43 3/8″; grip: 13 1/2″; clubhead: 3 3/8″ x 2 1/2″ x 1 5/8″
Marks/Inscriptions: BULLDOG BRASSIE by W.J. BONNER, PERIOD 1905—10, Note angle of face, 7H (on card attached to shaft); W.J. BONNER (maker’s mark) J.M.D. (initials at upper edge of toe)
Object ID: GM 81
