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THE
VIRTUAL TENNIS MUSEUM
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Equipment Manufacturers. |
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| A cardboard box dating
back to 1881 by Peck&Snyder
of New York, sold as a parlour game containing net, rackets and balls…..and
advertising posters from the eighteen nineties: Wright&Ditson,
Spalding,
Horace
Partridge&CO, and again Peck&Snyders.... |
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rackets: |
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Antiques
before 1914, dating from before the first world war, the prominent brands,
a selection of famous
champion signatures,
A collection of photographic
autographs of the great champions from when rackets were made in wood and
decorated with signed portraits of:Tilden,
Vines,
Budge,
Kramer,
Gonzales,Trabert,
Laver,
Rosewall,
Billie
Jean King and many others... |
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| Cans
and balls: |
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For those who can remember
when the
balls were white
, the shape of old boxes Slazenger,
Dunlop,
or Spalding, ...
Covers
and press.
A selection of delightful
old adverts by Dunlop,Williams
or Spalding.
Here are some more beautiful
presentation boxes, signed by Tilden,
Richards
ou Gonzales.
…And a multitude of boxes
of tin cans with fanciful decorations! |
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| Adverts
and Sponsors: |
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| Texaco, bier, Coca-cola,
cigarettes... |
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| Women's
attire: (Under construction) |
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| Men's
attire (Under construction) |
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| The
Tennis courts (Under construction) |
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Latest news from
the museum: two
beautiful pictures
of the whiz kids
Hoad
and Rosewall
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Advertising with tennis:
Donald Budge and
COCA
COLA
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