US Patent No. 1568888 Golf Club by W. Dunn Filed April 4 1925 Granted January 5 1926 old ireland print Pool's engineering filing arrives at

Pool's engineering filing arrives at a moment when lacrosse sticks were still bent ash and gut lacing — yet the schematic shows a shaft braced and reinforced for the modern game

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its curving seams and stitched panels drawn in the years when felted spheres still arrived loose in tins and a proper cover was the difference between a tournament ball and a backyard relic

US Patent No. 1568888 Golf Club by W. Dunn Filed April 4 1925 Granted January 5 1926 old ireland print Pool's engineering filing arrives atUs Patent No. 1568888 Golf Club by W Dunn Filed April 4 1925 Granted January 5 1926 Willie Dunn's 1925 filing diagrams a clubhead in the twilight of the hickory age, when shafts still flexed with the grain of living wood and a maker's name was pressed into the sole like a signature. The schematic studies weight, hosel, and face angle with the patience of a craftsman who knew the swing before he knew the patent office. About the Source Bella Frye