Early Golf Balls &
Golfing Accessories
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Antique Wood Shaft Golf Clubs and related Golfing Antiques!!
Not too many
years ago you could buy all the vintage wood shaft golf
clubs that you would want at antique shows on the East Coast. Then for a while they
seemed
hard to find and became expensive during their hey-day of popularity
when the prices were being driven by a new crowd of buyers. That has now come full circle
and wood shaft clubs are again plentiful and cheap as one can see by
checking current trends on eBay.
Between the demand
falling off (the Japanese moving on to Levis and sneakers) and
thousands if not millions of them coming onto the market with the coming
of the internet, the supply of these sporting items is now abundant, and
common wood shaft clubs can now be bought for less than one had to pay
10-15 years ago. Which is OK as long as everybody is aware of
that. .
Primarily we like to deal in harder
to find clubs similar to those that I have pictured on this
page. These clubs may appear to all look pretty much the same at
first sight but each one pictured here has a subtle
difference from
the
norm. They may have either a patented idea or other feature that some ingenious fellow
thought up to try and help
improve his score on the links. I will
picture and point out some of these features and also describe some of the
other ones
that are still desirable.
The two wood shaft
clubs at the top of the page and are called deep
grooves and
were used to help create backspin when trying to stop the ball
when hitting from a sand trap. They were outlawed shortly after they
were introduced, but must have been immensely popular as attested to by
the volume of them that have survived. These clubs can range
in value from as low as $25.00 to over $200.00 for some rarer versions.
The next club is called a Seeley's Patent after the
inventor or patentee's name. It was made and marketed by Spaulding
and dates from the teens into the twenties. It
is unusual in that the wooden shaft extends lower than usual and th
e head
has support pieces coming up the shank as can be seen in the picture to
the left. It is clubs with unusual features like this that are still
desirable. Just above is a picture showing the marking on
this clubs backside giving the patent information and other important
information.
Wood shaft clubs that hold little interest
to most collectors are those
later ones that have aluminum caps on the end of the handles, and many of those that
have nickel or chromed heads, as these are for the most part much later
and more common clubs. Most of these were produced during the later
years of wood shaft clubs and few have unusual features that make for a
good club.
That is not to say that they are not
valuable or collectible. In today's market, common clubs can be had at venues like eBay for $10.00-$20.00 and
often go begging for a bids because of the added cost of shipping. There is just not a lot of
interest these days in common clubs.
On the other hand prices for unusual wood shaft clubs like those picture
d on this
page have remained stable.
On the
right is a set of clubs that date from right near the
turn of the century. These were made by Willie Dunn, one of the first and best
known of all early American golf club makers. These were made when he was employed
at Crawford, Macgregor & Canby Co. It is unusual
to find clubs this early that are truly a set. This is the vintage and quality that
are still desireable.
I DO NOT MAKE
OFFERS on CLUBS!!!!!
Golf Balls & Golfing Accessories
In addition to
antique wood shaft golf clubs,
we also deal in early golf balls and other accessories related to
golf. The balls that I am looking for have square or other different
shaped
dimples rather than the round ones found on more modern
balls. Even earlier and more desirable are those balls called
gutties and I would also be interested in buying these types of balls that
generally date from a short period of time right near the turn of the
century and before.
Other golf accessories
of interest would be trophies or prizes like the razor
set that was presented to the winner of a tournament in Scotland back near
the turn of the last century. I would also be interested in silver trophies
from the same era. Hole in one trophies are interesting if they are early
as well.
On
the right is a practice machine that I believe dates from the 20's or
so. On the
end of the rod that
you see is an early ball that when hit would revolve around
and mark off or
record the distance that you had supposedly hit the
ball. They are still making things to achieve the same goal today,
but most are not as big, heavy or elaborate as this
piece. An example of the way prices have fluctuated over the years,
is that i bought this piece nearly 15 years ago for over $500.00 and
when I listed it on Ebay a year or so ago it bought under $100.
Please Note: I do not
buy any metal shaft clubs. There are other people who specialize
in them and do buy them.
Examples of Select Antique Golf Clubs
The above are examples of the
caliber, condition and quality of antique wood shaft golf club that I am primarily interested in
buying.
If you have quality antique golf clubs or golf
related antiques similar to those that you see
on this page that you want to sell, please contact us at
LCM@AntiqBuyer.com
providing me with as many details as possible. Thank you!!
To see antiques that I have for sale, please go to our sister site
at www.Patented-Antiques.com.and
visit the numerous sale pages you will find there.
