United States Patent No. 572436 Head for Golf Clubs by W Mills December 1 1896 Frame Style:Ebony Frame and reckonings seriously

and reckonings seriously

where bonneted matrons ladled chowder beside spinning wheels to raise dollars for the Sanitary Commission — Puritan nostalgia conscripted into the bloody arithmetic of feeding and bandaging the Union army

and the head's weighting and hosel geometry were matters of quiet obsession

We print it at archival quality so the detail holds — every signature legible

four years before the disease that would take his name began quietly taking him

United States Patent No. 572436 Head for Golf Clubs by W Mills December 1 1896 Frame Style:Ebony Frame and reckonings seriouslyUnited States Patent No. 572436 Head for Golf Clubs by W Mills December 1 1896 reads like a metalsmith's argument with tradition W. Mills's inventor's diagram weighting and shaping the clubhead at the precise moment gutta percha balls were punishing soft persimmon, and the gentleman's game was quietly trading craft for engineering. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for