Object Name: Club, Golf
Other Name: CLUB, METAL, METAL SHAFT
Date: 1937
Description: Steel club with molded rubber grip, steel shaft painted like wood, dotted face. Black and white bands at hosel. Plastic black and white tip at top of grip.
Maker: GIBSON, WILLIAM AND CO.
Material: steel, rubber
Dimension Details: Overall: 35 3/4″: grip: 14 1/4″; blade: 6″ (hosel to toe), 3 3/4″ x 2 1/4″ x 1/8″ (sole)
Marks/Inscriptions: SMITH’S SPECIAL NIBLICK by Wm. GIBSON & CO., Kinghorn, Scotland, PERIOD 1937, Donated by The P. Goldsmith Sons, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, 1J (on card attached to shaft); Python, English (stamped in gold on grip); 8 SOLID RUSTLESS (stamped on sole, filled in with gold color); letter G inside star, SMITH’S MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN, HAND FORGED, GIBSONS OF KINGHORN (all stamped on back of blade, filled in with gold color), blue letter G crossed by red golf club
Additional Notes: Outline Star mark used 1895—1930, so date on card incorrect.
Object ID: GM 98
