Two Day Sporting Memorabilia Auction - Day 1 Wednesday 03 April 2013 10:30 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers The Clive Pavilion Ludlow Racecourse Bromfield SY8 2BS Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Two Day Sporting Memorabilia Auction - Day 1 ) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 1 Lot: 9 3x various interesting wooden rackets – to incl Hazells Tennis/Pelota – A Grand Chistera basket fitted with integral Streamline Blue Star racket (head slightly warped) c/w original leather glove – overall 34― round the hoop leather grip (F/G) a Slazenger’s Pat Shoulder transitional flat Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 top racket and a Grays Real Tennis racket both (A/F) Estimate: £140.00 - £150.00 Lot: 10 Early J S Uberol & Sons mahogany tennis racket press for 4 Lot: 2 rackets – pear shaped with brass inlaid handle and wing nuts 4x various wooden tennis rackets from the 1900s onwards to Estimate: £75.00 - £100.00 incl an Army & Navy CS Ltd “Champion―, a similar racket stamped “Versandhaus Puppenfee, Hooflieferant Starssburg―, another stamped “Ready― to the throat and Lot: 11 Thos Wallis & Co Ltd Holborn Circus “Wonder― – most withScarce French free standing tennis racket press for 4 rackets broken strings but heads and wood work (G) c1900 – stamped in gilt “Tennis – Sports, 9 Rue Sentil, Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00 Lyon― fitted with large iron wing nuts – original leather handle (split) Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00 Lot: 3 Collection of 10x various wooden concave tennis rackets from 1910 onwards – incl a late fishtail (G), plus others by Jaques Lot: 12 and Son Ensign, Sykes, Lillywhites, Ranelagh, et al – all with Fine unnamed mahogany tennis racket press for 4 rackets – minor faults pear shaped with brass inlaid handle and wing nuts Estimate: £75.00 - £100.00 Estimate: £75.00 - £100.00 Lot: 4 Lot: 13 Collection of 9 various wooden tennis rackets to incl 2x with Scarce Kleenball Patent tennis ball hand cleaner – comprising convex wedges an Oxonian and Spalding Exmoor together with wooden machine turned two piece hand cleaner c/w bristles 7 concave rackets by Gunn& Moore, John Holden (heart and makers ivorine inlaid logo. (G) shaped wedge), Varsity, Slazenger – all with faults Estimate: £200.00 - £250.00 Estimate: £50.00 - £75.00 Lot: 14 Lot: 5 2x early brass lawn tennis tape measures to incl rare F H 4x various metal tennis rackets and presses from the late Ayres all brass and black lacquered measure with court details 1920s onwards to incl Dayton USA with steel piano stringing on the obverse and on the reverse embossed “F H Ayres plus 2x Wilson incl model 1500 and an earlier Silver Fox fitted Manufacturers of Lawn Tennis, and All Outdoor and Indoor with wooden handle and period Zephyr alloy racket press (G) Games – Steam Mills - 111Aldersgates London― together Estimate: £60.00 - £80.00 with another similar brass case with the original white labels panels loose hence (A/F) Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Lot: 6 Late Fishtail wooden tennis racket c1920 with concave wedge stamped with “Star― to the one side and “British Made “A―Lot: 15 Star― to the other - 6x vertical strings broken – head needs An early brass 78ft Lawn Tennis measure - the face is applied feeding with the original white label revealing the court shape and Estimate: £40.00 - £50.00 dimensions c/w the original brass pull ring – the tape is complete with no shortening Estimate: £50.00 - £75.00 Lot: 7 Croquet – 6x F H Ayres croquet mallets with round handles and 6x smooth wooden balls from single stripe to multi stripes Lot: 16 – some wear balls Rare 1921 Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship programme Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 - for the start of 2nd week on Monday 27th June – comprises a large A5 single multi folding sheet with up to date results as well as neatly hand written results up the semi finals – note Lot: 8 that although W T Tilden won the Men’s Championship in Croquet – early boxed set to incl 4 mallets and balls, 6 1920 he didn’t defend his title in 1921 but competed in the white/coloured metal hoops (one broken), 2x coloured posts mixed doubles being knocked out in the 3rd round - It’s also and 4x coloured metal clips in the original box together with interesting to note that the competition was also recognised by wooden mallet hammer – the pine box stamped to the front the Lawn Tennis Association as the World’s Championships panel “Association Thornton & Co Ltd Edinburgh― together on Grass - please handle with care when opening - some wear with the original Croquet paper label to the lid to the folds, one fold split and minor tears and scuffing Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 Estimate: £150.00 - £175.00 1 of 65 Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers (Two Day Sporting Memorabilia Auction - Day 1 ) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 17 front cover loose and wear to spine. Internally very clean c/w 1991 signed Wimbledon Lawn Tennis programme – for the assortment of Wisden’s Lawn Tennis advertisements to the final day – signed by K Godfree to the cover, Virginia Wade rear. plus two others to the inside together with US Tennis Open Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 programmes for ’94 and ’96 c/w the final days play draw sheets Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 Lot: 24 Early signed Tennis History – F. R. Burrow signed “A Fifty Years’ Record – The Beckenham Tournament 1886-1935― in Lot: 18 the original wrappers (minor fraying to covers) signed to the 1974 Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship signed back free end plate by F.R. Burrows – quarto, 19p c/w 3x programme and postcard – for the 9th Day’s play signatures illustrated photographs and full list of all the winners and to the programme incl Ladies Champion Billie Jean King, competitions to the rear winners incl A.W Gore, Doherty Bros, Virginia Wade, plus Bette Stove etc – together with a signed W Renshaw, Kingscote, H W Austin, Dorothy Round, Miss Wimbledon panoramic View Postcard signed on the reverse by Ryan, et al – some minor corner creases and thumb stains to both 1974 Champions for Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert, plus edges otherwise overall (F/G) Ile Nastase, Billie Jean King, Tony Roche, Tom Okker, Estimate: £50.00 - £75.00 Margaret Court, P C Dent, etc – note 3x heavy vertical centre folds (2) Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Lot: 25 Tennis handbook and Magazines from 1950/60s to incl 1958 Lawn Tennis Association Official Handbook and a collection of Lot: 19 Lawn Tennis and Badminton Magazines (Official Journal of the Rare & Early 1900 Lawn Tennis and Croquet Magazines from LTA) from 1960 onwards to incl 18x ’60, 7x ’62 and 13x ’66 the year 1900 - to incl Vol. IV No. 94 to 96 issued monthly (39) from Wednesday 7th February to April 4th – to incl Home and Estimate: £20.00 - £25.00 European tennis articles together with Badminton and Croquet sections – all complete some minor folds and slight wear nevertheless overall (F/G) (3) Lot: 26 Estimate: £45.00 - £60.00 Early lawn tennis books from 1900s onwards (3) to incl 'Everybody's Lawn Tennis Book' by E.E.M. (1923) with a tennis- themed book-plate of Laurie Varnell Hill, “Modern Lawn Lot: 20 Tennis― by P.A. Vaile (1904) and "Off The Racket" by Philip B Rare and early 1900/01 Lawn Tennis and Croquet magazines Hawk (1937) complete with the large fold-out draw-sheet on – to incl Vol. V no 97 April 25th 1900 to No. 126 April 3rd 1901 pages 12/13. – missing no 115 – to incl weekly season al edition and then Estimate: £30.00 - £40.00 monthly out of season editions - all complete some minor folds, and slight wear nevertheless overall (F/G) (29) Estimate: £600.00 - £750.00 Lot: 27 Fine 1923 Spalding's Tennis Annual - ex Nat Fleischer library - a fine hard bound cover c/w private library stamp from Lot: 21 Nathaniel Stanley Fleischer (b.1887 – d.1927) – a noted Rare and early 1901/02 Lawn Tennis and Croquet magazines American boxing writer and collector – the book is divided into – to incl Vol. VI no 127 April 24th 1901 to No. 153 January 1st 3 parts Pt II United States LTA and Pt III Rules of Lawn Tennis 1902 – missing no 152, 154 to 156 – to incl weekly seasonal and Tournament Regulations – some slight discolouration to editions and then monthly out of season editions - all complete pages otherwise (VG) some minor folds, and slight wear nevertheless overall (F/G) Estimate: £25.00 - £30.00 (26) Estimate: £520.00 - £650.00 Lot: 28 Helen Wills collection of tennis related photographs c1920/30s Lot: 22 (4) – to incl fine head and shoulders portrait 8x6―and another Rare and early 1902 Lawn Tennis and Croquet magazines – three quarter length seated plus to other informal photographs to incl Vol. VI I no 157 April 23rd 1902 to No. 182 December one on board ship 3rd 1902 to incl weekly seasonal editions and then monthly out Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 of season editions missing 2 copies 179/180 - all complete some minor folds, slight wear and covers loose to one nevertheless overall (F/G) (29) (24) Lot: 29 Estimate: £500.00 - £600.00 Helen Wills collection of tennis related photographs c1920/30s (3) – to incl 2x action shots and another official press photograph dressed in USA Whiteman team outfit cup Lot: 23 Estimate: £30.00 - £45.00 Rare 1917 wartime “Wisden’s Who’s Who In Lawn Tennis― complied by Herbert L Bourke containing 300 “brief― biographies and 100 photographs of Players of The World – Lot: 30 published by John Wisden & Co with original paper wrappers - Helen Wills and Lili d’Alvarez tennis press photographs