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[TonyN]

Ok guys I bought some Orka irons off GB72 for the old man and I made him clear out his bag of old sticks. Whilst he did I came across an iron similar to the one that somebody posted a couple of months back, the one with the dimples instead of grooves.

I remember saying that I would dig it out and put some pics up so I have done.

The interesting thing is it has a number 8 on the sole but Is definitly not an 8 iron. Havn't actually checked it against the lofts of my own wedges but I think it is around sw degrees.

I cant quite make out what the name says but as you have probably noticed it looks like it was either made in Fife or thats where the maker was from.

I would love to know about the club/manufacturer/age/how much its worth etc so if anyone has any ideas i'd be glad to hear them.

The shaft is really damaged and I think it still has the original grip on it. I actually took it the range today and hit some really nice 80 yard draws.

I have a second club that I will post pics of as soon as I have uploaded that I think is even more interesting than this one.

 

[Atticus_Finch]

Looks like George Nicoll from Leven Tony.

Absolutely no idea if your club's worth anything but have a look at this..

http://www.oldcourse.com/Features/Club%20Makers/gnicoll.htm

 

[TonyN]

Ok here are the pics for the second club.

Again it is really old and my old man uses it for a putter but I dont think it is. For one it has grooves on the face, two it has a number 10 on the sole, is this degrees maybe? and 3 it is off set face open. I dont know much about the history of golf or what kind of clubs players used but I was wondering if this would of been an old 1 iron or something.

The shaft though is really short, almost putter lentgh so maybe this is why he uses it.

here are the pics

 

[Cernunnos]

I have an old putter of my grandfathers, which is actually marked as putter on the sole, but this also has groves similar to that in the photo above.

 

[TonyN]

Thankyou for that atticus, made some interesting reading, I am going to do some more digging and see if I can find out how old it is.

 

[theeaglehunter]

I hope you don't wear those sweatpants and k swiss's at the golf club Tony

I do like the look of the first club though, I don't think it will be worth anything though as a quick google revealed this http://cgi.ebay.com/SET-IRONS-GEORGE-NIC...bayphotohosting and that is for a full set in better condition! Perhaps something worth keeping though.

the seller also has clubs like the second one you posted.

 

[TonyN]

Not really bothered about the price as my old man would never sell them anyway.

Intersting to see that full set, they actually look quite nice when they are silver.

Cannot find anything on the second one though, have had search for Campbell golf on google and ebay but not found much yet.

 

[DCB]

I agree with the eaglehunter on this one. My father-in-law used aset of these until the mid 80s when he stopped playing. They are now used and abused by two of my nephews for everything from golf to digging holes! I had a swing with one of them earlier in the summer and they were a heavey club compared with todays offerings.

There was a large number of golf club makers all along the east coast. You could go to any town or village with a golf course and there was bound to be a club maker nearby. From East Lothian all the way to Angus this was a big cottage industry.

 

[TWM]

I had a putter with dimples like these when I played golf in a previous life ( 1960s & 1970s ). It was the deadliest weapon in my bag.

 

[TonyN]

Does anyone know if putters were ever made off set?

I cant imagine why they would be but I don't know what club this is.

 

[DCB]

TonyN

Yes, putters were and are made offset. Just have a look at what is currently on offer , many are offset.

 

[TonyN]

Well I didn't know that!

Thanks DCB, so do we think it probably is a putter?

 

[DCB]

Yes. I would go along with it being a putter.

I've got a steel shafted one from the 1930s with a dimpled face pattern, but there were so many different manufacturers that all did their own thing with the club faces. Thats probably why we have rule over club design and sizes and tollerances for everything from face length and width to the volume of the clubhead etc.

 

[viscount17]

If my memory is correct, the photos on the earlier post that TonyN referred to were of a Ben Sayers Pinseeker.
Is it possible that a number of manufacturers produced 'signed' clubs to a standard pattern?

As an aside, it would seem that these clubs are 40 - 50's and are numbered. I'm currently reviewing a book for GM which contains a number of the early Daily Telegraph reports (and interviews)and they were still using the terms mashie and spoon some way into the 50's.

 

[USER1999]

A lot of earlier putters had grooves, and more loft than modern ones. Bear in mind the greens were no where near the quality of todays, and so you needed a bit of loft. Probably has more in common with our temps than our greens.