RARE "Humble Oil & Refining Co. Vintage Golf Putter

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This rare HUMBLE OIL & REFINING CO. putter was a San Francisco cluttered basement estate sale find. I had never seen a putter with a custom name insert. Unsure of actual age of the putter, however, I'm sure a collector will know. It measures 35-1/2" from top of grip to base of head. The grip is wrapped leather (like a tennis racket) with gold threads. There is a sticker on the shaft that reads "ALUM ALLOY BY AXALINE". The shaft is gold color and the mallet head putter may also originally have been gold plated. It is well worn. Ross S. Sterling entered the oil business in 1909, when he invested in the Humble oil file north of Houston. Two years later he formed the Humble Oil Company with five partners: Walter W. Fondren, Charles B. Goddard, William Stamps Farlish, Robert Lee Blaffer, and Harry Carothers Wiess. Sterling's brother, Frank, became a company director in 1914. In 1917 the company obtained a state charter under the name Humble Oil & Refining Company. In order to finance the building of a refinery, fifty percent of the company stock was sold to Standard Oil of New Jersey. The first oil was pumped into a still at the new refinery on May 11, 1920. As the company expanded and employed more people, a town grew up around the refinery. The company provided low-interest home loans to its employees. By the 1930s research was being read more

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