Known as the "Harrison Patent Putter, this gunmetal blade putter was designed by G.H Harrison. In addition to being a duplex, usable both left- and right- handed, this putter has an eight-sided wood grip integral with its shaft. The example offered here is 30 ½” in length, and has its shaft stamped "F.H. Ayers." The back of the blade is marked "Harrison, F.H. Ayers, Rd No 314367,"  Ayers was the retailer.

A brief review published on October 13, 1899, in Golf Illustrated observed that the grip on the Harrison Patent Putter was more secure than leather for the golfer to hold:

“In the first place it has no leather grip, the shaft being tapered to the requisite thickness in an octahedral form suggestive of a lawn tennis racquet. Sentiment and tradition apart, this strikes us as giving a surer grip of the club than the ordinary circular leather-covered handle.”

This review of “Harrison’s Patent Putter" also told of a grooved black line cut into the top of the blade to reduce “disconcerting glitter” and a toe rounded off to reduce the possibility of “fouling” when “drawing it back or in bringing it forward." FH. Ayres was the sole manufacturer of Harrison's Patent Putter.  Few are known.

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