Percy Adolphus Vaile was a New Zealander who wrote instruction books on golf and, to an even greater extent, tennis. He has, to my knowledge, two golf club designs to his name: the swan-neck putter for which he (unsuccessfully) applied for a patent with the manufacturer F H Ayres in 1905 and this, the stroke-saver.

Forgan made the stroke-saver with a hickory (or sometimes dangawood) shaft in the 1920s and continued with it into the steel-shafted era. This is one of the original hickory-shafted ones and the shaft begins with a square cross-section at the top to the more usual circular cross-section below the grip. The club was to be used for chipping, the same purpose as a jigger but, at the same length and with the same upright lie, played like a putter.

It has a boat-shaped head with dot-punched face. The reverse is stamped with the Forgan flagstick mark, "Regd" below (both picked out in red), "Forgan St Andrews", "Made in Scotland", It has a long hosel (4.75") and very heavy flange, the flange stamped "P A Vaile" (in signature) and "Stroke-Saver".

Price $180.00 Reference: JIG206