This circa 1905 wooden mallet putter bears the name or Walter Travis and is modeled after the aluminum Schenectady putter he used to win the 1904 British Amateur. Travis, already a three time US amateur champ before he used won the 1904 British Am, caused quite a stir with his outstanding putting which eventually led to the R&A banning the Schenectady putter in 1910.
Center-shafted Schenectady and Schenectady-style putters remained conforming to the USGA rules, however, and a few US clubmakers took to producing such clubs, sometimes with wood heads. In a Spalding 1904-1905 catalog a Travis Putter similar to this one was advertised except it had a cross-scored face and brass backweight. Spalding, however, was likely the maker of this club as well.
For more on the Schenectady putter and Walter Travis putters see TCA2 V1 p225-228 and TCA2 V2 p609-610.