1927 SPALDING KRO FACE BRASSIE WITH HICKORY SHAFT

Description

1927 SPALDING KRO FACE BRASSIE WITH HICKORY SHAFT -  This is a  model 1015 made in 1927 as indicated by the backweight configuration and the straight sided sole plate. The hickory shaft makes it rare. It is a solid club with no visible cracks. It is 43 3/4 inches long with a d7 swing weight. The shaft is straight. The grip needs whipping.
Excerpts from the “ Club Markers Art” by Jeffery Ellis,
1997. Page 335
A.G. SPALDING & BROS.
“ KRO FACE” -  FANCY FACE WOOD SET
In 1927, Spalding began using the “Kro face,” an insert marked with a crow in flight. Spalding used this fancy face insert for many years. But only between 1927 and 1929 did Spalding offer Kro face woods with a choice of either steel or wood shafts. Beginning in 1930 Kro face woods were available in only steel shafts. The ratio of remaining steel to wood shaft Kro face woods that date 1927 to 1929 indicates that the wood shaft examples were not nearly as popular as the steel shaft examples. This is understandable . By 1927 steel shafts already USGA approved
for two years , were well on their way to dominating the game. A driver and a brassie sold for an added spoon was another .
The catalog describes the virtues of these matched woods as follows:
The important feature of these clubs is not the fact that the club when broken , can be duplicated, but that unless a driver and brassie are perfectly matched from the beginning of their manufacture , it is practically impossible to select two clubs from stock that are directly related to each other.
As Registered Wood Clubs
are made up , two rough turned heads of
exactly the same weight and type of wood are selected. They are weighted exactly the same
.
Two shafts of exactly the same weight in the same size and texture are selected. Every assembly and working operation is carefully checked
as to size, the result being that when the clubs are finished each club is an duplicate of each other club of a pair.
A complete record I kept of all stages of the manufacture so that in the event of a breakage it is only necessary to know the Registered number to start through another wood block exactly the same wood as the first , weighted the same, assembled to a shaft of exactly the same weight and texture as the first and so exactly duplicate the original.