WALTER HAGEN Hickory Shaft Putter TOMMY ARMOUR stamp! Calamity Jane Style GREAT!

This is a Walter Hagen Stainless Steel Model 204 hickory-shaft era putter that is stamped "Tommy Armour" and has a unique sightline arrangement along the topline---see pictures.Tommy Armour was signed with various companies during his playing career (Great Lakes, Spalding, MacGregor), making it illegal for the Walter Hagen company to market a Tommy Armour model golf club, and, as this is the only known example of this putter, it is most likely a prototype for Armour's personal use.  It is well known that Hagen and Armour were very good friends.This putter has been expertly restored with a cherry wood shaft that is very beautiful and also features a smooth-side out buffalo leather grip.  The shaft is straight and tightly attached as is the grip.  Only moderate wear on the clubhead sole and back of the clubhead.This putter would rank at the very top percentile as a playable club---it putts great.  This 35" putter has a 300 gram clubhead that swingweights at C-3 with a total weight of just under 16 ounces.  If you know clubs and specifications, this tells you that the cherry wood shaft is much lighter in weight than a hickory shaft as a 300 gram head would normally result in a "D-range" swingweight at 35" and normal weight grip (which this has).  Grip size is just slightly larger than a normal hickory golf club.  Loft is 6 degrees with a 66 degree lie angle---the original unaltered specifications. The sightline arrangement is interesting, effective, and appears to be factory installed.  The center sightline indicates the sweetspot and the outside sightlines are the width of a 1.68" golf ball.  This gives you a clue to the date of the putter as the 1.68" ball was mandated starting in 1931---the very year that Tommy Armour was rated the #1 golfer in the World, winning the British Open that year at Carnoustie.  Before 1931, the top players in the World preferred the 1.62" ball which was longer off the tee.  Hickory clubs were not produced by the Hagen company after 1935 so this club would be from 1931-1935.A matching set of irons are known to exist for this putter!