Two Day Sporting Memorabilia Sale Wednesday 23 June 2010 12:00
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Two Day Sporting Memorabilia Sale Wednesday 23 June 2010 12:00 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers The Old Shippon Wall Under Heywood Church Stretton SY6 7DS Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Two Day Sporting Memorabilia Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 1 Lot: 5 Rare Victorian Cassiobury lawn Scarce A A Tunmer & Co Paris tennis pine equipment box c1880 wooden multiple racket press for - the pine box is fitted with a 4 rackets c1910 - c/w makers hinged lid to reveal the original brass plaque, brass folding Cassiobury green and black handle, and fitted with two cast- trade label depicting a mixed iron threaded pegs - well used doubles tennis match featuring hence (A/F) the early hourglass shaped court, Estimate: £50.00 - £60.00 excessively high net and in the background a mixed doubles badminton match being played in front of Cassiobury House - the Lot: 6 Scarce Thomas J Tate London home of the Duke of Essex. The mahogany freestanding lawn box comes complete with brass tennis single racket press c1890 - handles and measures 30.5 x fitted with a single cast-iron 14.5 x 7.5". threaded peg to the centre c/w Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 brass locking screw and stamped Thos J Tate to the one panel Estimate: £75.00 - £80.00 Lot: 2 Scarce Clark & Co lawn tennis pine equipment box c1900 - pine box is fitted with a hinged lid to Lot: 7 reveal the original Clark & Co An oak freestanding lawn tennis Glasgow red and white trade multiple racket press for 4 label - together with the makers rackets c1900 - c/w 3x cast-iron original embossed plaque to the threaded pegs fitted with three front panel which reads "Clark & large brass wing nuts. Co, Manufacturers - 95 St Estimate: £55.00 - £65.00 Vincent Street - Glasgow Est. 1793" - complete with brass handles overall 38 x 17 x 7.5" Estimate: £125.00 - £150.00 Lot: 8 Rare A.G. Spalding and Bros Ltd Lot: 3 London "Automatic" cast-iron Jaques London "Croquet Set" - tennis ball cleaner c1900 - comprising 4x original mallets comprising a large circular drum each stamped Jaques London, fitted with the original turned six hoops, coloured starting post, wooden handle and mounted on 4x polyurethane croquet balls, 4 cast iron legs, designed to be and 2 marking pegs-in the freestanding or attached to the original box complete with trade bench or flat surface. label to the inside and stencil Estimate: £180.00 - £200.00 details to the lid Estimate: £125.00 - £150.00 Lot: 9 Fine and rare transitional flat top Lot: 4 tennis racket with a rare inlaid Slazenger's Ltd mahogany tennis handle grip c1895 - c/w freestanding lawn tennis multiple convex wedge, period thick gut racket press for six rackets c1900 stringing, longer slim smooth - c/w the original leather carrying handle with inlaid panels to both strap, 3x cast iron threaded pegs sides and fitted with the original fitted with bulbous wing nuts and leather butt collar. comes with the original dividers. Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 Estimate: £75.00 - £80.00 Lot: 10 3x American wooden tennis rackets c1910 - comprising Wright & Ditson "Canadian Club", A G Spalding & Bros "Greenwood", Draper and Maynard "Oxford" with Dalmatian 1 of 47 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Two Day Sporting Memorabilia Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com dog trademark - incl 2x with inlaid Lot: 15 laminated convex wedges - some Transitional flat top convex strings broken - otherwise wooden tennis racket c1890 - retaining good shape. stringing distressed, the head is Estimate: £90.00 - £120.00 fitted with the original leather protective band - exceptionally clean example. Lot: 11 Estimate: £60.00 - £75.00 Rare Douglas London wooden convex tennis racket c1890 - stamped 105 to the head, period thick gut stringing (G) c/w original leather collar and butt cap - Note Lot: 16 see Siegfried Kuebler "Book of Late F H Ayres concave wooden Tennis Rackets" p136 - Douglas tennis racket - fitted with a wide manufactured rackets between decorative mottled celluloid neck 1885 - 1900 collar, grooved handle c/w Estimate: £75.00 - £80.00 leather butt collar and the remains of the makers butt cap - devoid of stringing - otherwise (G) Lot: 12 Estimate: £50.00 - £60.00 Scarce and early square shaped wooden tennis racket c1890 - fitted with flat/concave wedge, Lot: 17 original metal neck collar, period Interesting W Mark "Favourite" thick gut stringing (broken along convex wooden tennis racket, the top of the head), which still with period thick gut stringing retains the original leather (one vertical broken) and fitted protective band - smooth oval with an usual tapered and handle - overall (G) splayed handle c/w leather collar Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 Estimate: £50.00 - £60.00 Lot: 13 Early flat top wooden convex Lot: 18 tennis racket c1890 - retaining at Good "The Club" fishtail wooden the period thick gut stringing convex tennis racket c1900 - (A/F), original leather neck collar, fitted with period thick double and smooth oval grip fitted with a centre mains stringing (four thin leather butt collar- some verticals broken) - c/w J.J. wear and minor stress cracks to Broughton Wigan colour decal the head. transfer to the wedge - deep Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 grooved handle. Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 Lot: 14 Williams & Co Paris wooden Lot: 19 convex tennis racket c1890 - "Swastika" concave wooden fitted with period thick gut tennis racket - fitted with thick red stringing, stress cracks to the one and playing double centre mains shoulder which has been stringing (two verticals and one professionally repaired, original horizontal broken) - fitted with leather butt collar c/w Feltham's large handle complete with leather butt cap. leather collar and butt cap. Estimate: £60.00 - £75.00 Estimate: £50.00 - £60.00 2 of 47 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Two Day Sporting Memorabilia Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 20 Lot: 25 Scarce Dayton Steel Racket Scarce Slazenger's "Doherty" Company "Wilson Indestructo" patent wooden convex tennis tennis racket c1910 - all steel racket c/w Wisden's Tenax racket racket fitted with wire stringing, press c1900 - comprising leather dampeners, cord grip and Slazenger's patent stringing and original makers - small patent shoulders, period thick gut indentation to the metal shaft stringing (five broken verticals) - otherwise (G) needs cleaning otherwise (F) Estimate: £65.00 - £75.00 Estimate: £60.00 - £75.00 Lot: 21 Lot: 26 2x late Victorian convex wooden An early one piece play racket tennis rackets c1895 - to include c1860 - with vertical wrapped TH Prosser and Sons "The stringing (some broken), leather Unique" with period thick red and wrapped wedge and handle plain gut stringing (G) and (areas worn and torn) - no "Challenge" with original double warping or stress cracks to the centre mains stringing (two head some evidence of old worm horizontals broken), both with - otherwise (F) leather collars and butt caps - Estimate: £50.00 - £75.00 retaining good shape Estimate: £50.00 - £60.00 Lot: 27 Two interesting racket/battledore - Lot: 22 to include an Apex "Dandy" 2x late Victorian convex wooden salesman sample racket fitted tennis rackets c1895 - to include with red and plain stringing G.G.B and Co London (Geo G overall 19.25" and a ping-pong Bussey) "Rival" fitted with the "battledore" vellum table tennis original red and plain double bat - (F/G) centre mains stringing, Estimate: £50.00 - £60.00 customised handle C/W leather collar and butt cap plus "The Standard" with three broken vertical strings c/w customised Lot: 28 Pair of long battledores c1900 - fishtail handle each numbered 1 to the wooden Estimate: £50.00 - £60.00 wedge, vellum covers and matching burgundy paper wrapped handles and heads - Lot: 23 each with the remains of the Fine "Britannia" convex wooden leather loops fixed to the butts tennis racket c1890 - fitted with overall 19.5" red and plain gut stringing long Estimate: £40.00 - £50.00 slim regular handle fitted with leather collar and butt cap - overall (G) Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Lot: 29 Late Slazenger's London "The Demon" fishtail concave wooden tennis racket - with the Demon coloured transfer, grooved Lot: 24 handle, period thick gut stringing Scarce "Ideal" fantail wooden (some broken) together with a concave tennis racket - with similar period fishtail racket with period red and plain double good stringing well used, but centre mains stringing - the grip retains a good shape (2) is in good condition with no chips. Estimate: £75.00 - £100.00 Estimate: £75.00 - £100.00 3 of 47 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Two Day Sporting Memorabilia Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 30 Lot: 35 2x late Victorian wooden tennis Scarce Arena Table Badminton rackets - to include "Empress" cased set c1934/35 - comprising fishtail concave tennis racket with 2x original wooden rackets with red and plain stringing (A/F) - concaved wedges, brass and small stress fracture to the head cast iron posts and original otherwise (F/G) and a "Splendid" netting, together with an original convex wooden racket with red Arena Table Badminton Shuttle and plain double centre mains Cock cartoon c/w 6x original (two broken verticals) otherwise feathered shuttlecocks each very clean. stamped with the patent numbers Estimate: £60.00 - £75.00 - in makers original Rexene case fitted with two makers racket presses - hence overall (G) Lot: 31 Estimate: £65.00 - £75.00 Pair of Vic Badminton concave wooden rackets - fitted with the original gut stringing, each Lot: 35a stamped with the letter V to the Collection