This c.1875 Tom Dunn long spoon, complete with a leather face insert, looks like a much earlier club.  There is a hairline crack on the top of the head, but it is so thin it blends in well with the grain of the wood itself. It looks more like a faint scratch than a crack. The original 43 1/2" shaft is original as is the sheepskin grip, though it shows much wear.  Worn grips can add a genuine amount of charm to a club as it shows age and character. In this instance, one look at this grip and you know this club is old. The clubhead looks quite nice as a coat of varnish applied years back has preserved it well.   

This club has a slender neck so the 5 1/2" head length looks quite long.  The head is 1 13/16" wide and 1 1/16" in face depth. This is a beautiful club with a rich color and elegant head shape.  Tom Dunn is known to produced a number of clubs that contain characteristics from the featherball era.  

The son of the famed Willie Dunn and brother of Willie Dunn Jr, Tom Dunn learned clubmaking from his father. He began working as his own as a clubmaker at North Berwick in 1870. He soon left North Berwick to work for the London Scottish Golf Club in Wimbledon. In 1881 he moved back to North Berwick and re-entered his duties as custodian of the links there.

In addition to being a fine clubmaker from one of the most famous nineteenth-century golf families, Dunn was also a prolific golf course architect, laying out 137 courses—a number of them outside of Great Britain—during his lifetime. 

Tom married Elizabeth Gourlay of the famous ballmaking family. Tom's two sons, John Duncan Dunn and Seymour Gourlay Dunn, moved to America where they became well known and respected in the golf world.