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Robert Anderson and Sons
Edinburgh
Robert and Roderick Anderson ran a sporting goods emporium in Princes Street in the 1890s selling golf, tennis, angling, curling and cricketing goods but had been making clubs for a long time before. Their own background was in making angling equipment. They rivalled George Forrester in patenting unusual golf club designs: a centre-shaft putter, a centre-shafted iron too and a wooden fishing rod handle grip (supposedly from the 1830s and on display on the Forgan stand at the 1937 Carnoustie Open). Their shop also sold an aluminium headed driver. They were no slouches at marketing. The patent centre-shafted irons they produced in 1893, a cleek and an iron, were demonstrated on North Berwick links, in a foursome played by Ben Sayers and his brother, George, against Jack White and Davie Grant. These were top names in the golfing world.

In their entry in the Post Office Directory of 1909 they claimed to be ‘fishing tackle makers by appointment to the late Queen’ (Victoria) and, at that time were at 101 Princes Street. That building was sold in 1914 to Hardy Brothers, by the creditors of Messrs Roderick & Robert Anderson so, presumably they went bankrupt.

However, they resurrected! In the mid-1920s they were listed at 53 Princes Street and, at other times, 67 Princes Street.

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