Object Name: Club, Golf
Other Name: CLUB, METAL, WOOD SHAFT
Date: ca. 1896
Description: Leather grip, with extension, medium brown shaft, shaft stamp, faint maker’s mark, smooth face.
Grip extension after 1920s.
Maker: SPALDING, A.G. & BROS.
Dimension Details: Overall: 40—5/8″; grip: 33—3/4; original grip 9—7/8″; grip extension: 1—3/8″ visible; clubhead: 5—1/2″ (hosel to toe), 3—5/8″ x 1—3/8″ x 5/8″
Marks/Inscriptions: CLEEK by A.G. SPALDING BROS. PERIOD 1896, Donated by Col. Geor. L. Wertenbaker, U.S. Army, 6I (on card tied to shaft); 216 on paper tag adhered to shaft. SPALDING (shaft stamp—may be partial); THE SPALDING (faint maker’s mark)
Object ID: GM 211