Vintage Golf Club, Claude Johnson's Patent Driver, Hickory Shaft

Hickory Shafted Rut Iron. A good quality smooth faced rut iron, also known as a rut niblick, rutter or track iron. Rut irons were commonly used to hit the ball from cart tracks and deep ruts etc. Young Tom Morris was known to hit his rut iron from the fairway to play a high shot onto the green, a shot only a player of his calibre could master. They say he even managed to get backspin on the ball. The golf club is with hickory shaft and a polished sheep skin grip. The head has no makers marks, but it is a high-quality club and heavy in weight, has a long hosel (10 ½ cm) and a thick blade, not to be confused with the later 'Rut Niblick' that was lighter, thinner blade and a shorter hosel. A nice desirable golf collectable...

Antique Golf Club, Brassie (Fairway Wood). Persimmon head socket head brassie/spoon with hickory shaft and a leather grip. The head is possibly stamped 'Jersy Hill, Harrogate', face ...

Vintage Hickory Golf Club, Mid Iron. A fine and nicely weighted dot punched faced mid iron by Josh Taylor (brother of John Henry "J.H." Taylor who was best known for his fine British Open play, winning his first Open in 1894 and went on to win it a further four times). The hickory shaft with polished leather grip, the rear of the club head marked 'Selected, Mid-iron, Warranted Hand Forged, Josh Taylor (signature) Richmond Park' with Taylor's 'Greyhound' cleek mark. The original hickory shaft stamped 'Josh. Taylor Selected'. Taylor was a professional at Aldeburgh and later at a number of other clubs: Seacroft (from 1907), Acton (from 1909), Sudbury (from 1920) and Richmond Park (from 1924). The measurements shown are the length of the shaft with hosel and the width and depth of the face. A great golf club iron in good original condition and very usable for modern hickory play. Approximate 24° loft & swing weight C5. Taken from Wikipedia: Joshua Taylor (1881 - 28 September 1957) was an English professional golfer, the younger brother of J. H. Taylor. He played in the 1913 England-Scotland Professional Match and for Great Britain in the 1921 match against America. Taylor was born Northam, Devon in 1881, 10 years after his brother J. H. Taylor. Playing with his brother J.H., he won the Southern Professional Foursomes Tournament in 1910. The event was played in late January at Stoke Poges...

Vintage Hickory Golf Club, Iron, Cann & Taylor. A nice original hickory blade iron with hand punched dot face markings. The hickory shaft with J. H. Taylor "Autograph" and a polished...

Antique bronze plaque of Harry Vardon. A rare, MARKES, cast bronze plaque of the Champion Golfer Harry Vardon. The impressive and well known figure of Va...

This smooth face cleek is stamped on the club head with the stamp of Anderson of Anstruther and 'A & N.C.S.L', which stands for Army and Navy Co-Op Socie...

Presented is an original 1865 "Johnson's Nebraska, Dakota, Colorado, Idaho & Kansas” map. This map was issued as page 63 in the 1865 edition of “Johnson's N...

Presented is an original 1865 "Johnson's Missouri and Kansas” map. This map was issued as pages 59 and 60 in the 1865 edition of “Johnson's New Illustrated ...

Set of 6 cocktail picks in the form of golf clubs with a golf bag form holder. The golf bag is marked Sterling 950 on the bottom. The set comes in its original fitted box (box shows ...

Presented is an original 1865 "Johnson's California, with Territories of Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona” map. First published in 1864, thi...

An 1864 Johnson's map of the World on Mercator's Projection Ric.b009 About this Item "This antique map came from Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas, publ...

Mid-1970s Dick Brewer surfboard. Features an orange tint with uncommon rocket tail winged shape design. Glassed on single fin with pinstriped outline....