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Us Patent No. 75134 Toy Golf Player by Pa Vaile January 19 194 nyc church art A campaign-era portrait lithograph ofUs Patent No. 75134 Toy Golf Player by Pa Vaile January 19 194 Vaile's 1904 patent drawing renders a jointed mechanical golfer mid swing, every pivot and linkage diagrammed with the obsessive precision of an inventor who clearly studied the real thing. It's a parlor game homage to the era of gutta percha balls and hickory shafts, when the swing itself was still being puzzled out as a kind of engineering problem. About the Source Bella Frye sources