1920s SPALDING Hickory Shaft 2 IRON Symetric GOLF CLUB Warranted Mild Steel Rare

Description: 1920s SPALDING Hickory Shaft 2 IRON Symetric GOLF CLUB Warranted Mild Steel Rare. Beautiful eye catching hickory club Great for any collection Fast, protective, & careful shipping methods. Solo seller in Dayton OH so I will take all precautions for a smooth transaction State-of-the-Art Shafts Spalding clubmakers paid as much scrutiny to shafts as to heads. The company experimented throughout the 1920s and 1930s with lathe-turned hickory shafts that featured circular ridges spaced at standard intervals down the entire shaft. The design gave the clubs an exotic bamboo look; the underlying message being that these clubs offered players bamboos legendary flexibility and whip-like strength. The History of Spalding Golf Clubs Early history The company was founded in 1876, the year that Albert Spalding was pitcher and manager of the old Chicago team for which Pop Anson and Evangelist Billy Sunday played. It was Spaldings Chicago team that first appeared in regulation baseball uniforms. It was Spaldings company that standardized early baseballs and developed the modern baseball bat with the pronounced bulge in its business end. In 1892, A. G. Spalding & Bros, acquired Wright & Ditson and A. J. Reach, sporting goods companies, and put itself in an almost monopolistic position to profit from that trend in U.S. life that was to add the football stadium to collegiate architecture and golf .to the businessmans routine. And back in the days when the golfer was viewed with scornful alarm, Julian W. Curtiss, former president of Spalding who died in 1915, visited London, learned golf, returned with the clubs and balls from which resulted the manufacture of early U. S. golf equipment. History of Spalding Golf Clubs This article was written byPeter Stevensfor golflink.com No matter what brand of club you pull from your bag, you owe some thanks to one company Spalding. At the turn of the 20th Century, golf had stirred mild interest in the United States, and A.G. Spalding & Brothers sporting goods saw an opportunity. The company was already sellinggolf ballswhen, in 1905, it became the first in America to offer its own brand of golf clubs. The Early Years Starting in 1900, Spalding opened clubmaking factories in London and in Fife, Scotland, producing forged iron heads for Spalding clubs sold both in the U.K. and U.S.Ironsmade during that time are distinguished by an anvil cleek mark. The companys unique baseball mark A.G. Spalding had helped put baseball on the map was stamped on the clubs and below it Made in Great Britain appeared. Throughout America, the affordable Spalding clubs flew off the shelves and reaped huge catalog sales.

Price: 49.99 USD

Location: Dayton, Ohio

End Time: 2024-02-22T15:01:12.000Z

Shipping Cost: 6.95 USD