Antique Golf Club Walking Stick Collection Of 16 Canes, Sunday Clubs.

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Sixteen Antique Golf Club Walking Sticks, Sunday Clubs.
A desirable collection of walking canes with the handles fashioned in the shape of a golf club heads. Five of the walking stick heads are made of metal, the rest are made of wood and all are with metal ferrule ends. Five of the wooden heads are stamped with golf professionals details which are D. Anderson, Willie Watt (Epsom), P. McLeod, J. Sherlock (Oxford) & A.H. Scott (Elie, Scotland). Two of the iron heads are also marked, Spence & Gourlay Mashie Niblick (St Andrews) and Reid & Laidlaw.
A great starter for someone wishing to collect Sunday Clubs, walking sticks.

The ban on golfing on the Sabbath, Sunday, had the effect of the club makers producing walking sticks for canny golfers. They fashioned the canes with a golf club head as a handle and they became known as 'Sunday Clubs' or 'Sabbath sticks'. It is said that on the Sabbath a Sunday Club owner, when nobody was looking, could still enjoy a crafty putt or swing.

1 - Reid & Laidlaw bronze head walking cane (Patented, EdinR, Rd. No.162191, greenheart shaft, 38 ¾ inches long.
2 - Unnamed iron head walking cane, hickory shaft, 38 ½ inches long (slightly bowed).
3 - Unnamed iron head walking cane, hickory shaft, 35 ¼ inches long.
4 - Unnamed plated iron head walking cane, initialled "J.R.A", with beautiful oak grained shaft, 34 ½ inches long.
5 - Spence & Gourlay Mashie Niblick (St Andrews) walking cane with cleek mark, bamboo shaft with silvered collar, 34 ¼ inches long.
6 - Unnamed persimmon wood handled walking cane, socked head, face insert, lead weight to rear, greenheart shaft, 35 ¼ inches long.
7 - Unnamed ebonized persimmon wood handled walking cane, socked head, face insert, lead weight to rear, hickory shaft, 36 ¼ inches long.
8 - Unnamed scared head persimmon wood handled walking cane. The club head with whipping, lead weight, pegged horn insert, 36 inches long.
9 - Unnamed persimmon wood handled walking cane, socked head, pegged horn insert, lead weight to rear, greenheart shaft, 34 ½ inches long.
10 - Unnamed hickory wood handled walking cane, socked head, pegged horn insert, lead weight to rear, hickory shaft, 33 ¼ inches long.
11 - A.H. Scott (Elie, Scotland) persimmon wood handled walking cane (cleek mark of "Crown" & Lion, socked head, pegged horn insert, lead weight to rear, greenheart shaft, 36 ¼ inches long.
12 - D. Anderson persimmon wood handled walking cane, socked head, pegged metal insert, lead weight to rear, hickory shaft with plated collar with initials 'W.L.W.', 36 inches long.
13 - Unnamed small persimmon wood handled walking cane, socked head, pegged horn insert, lead weight to rear, head initialled 'W.W', hickory shaft, 36 inches long.
14 - P. McLeod (Trefrin, Llanwrst & Carholme) ebonized persimmon wood handled walking cane, socked head, face insert, lead weight to rear, hickory shaft, 36 ¼ inches long.
15 - Willie Watt (RAC Country Club, Epsom) persimmon wood handled walking cane, socked head (slight crack to hosel), pegged horn insert, lead weight to rear, hickory shaft, 35 inches long.
16 - J. Sherlock (Oxford) scared head persimmon wood handled walking cane. The club head with whipping, lead weight, pegged horn insert, hickory shaft, 34 inches long.