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490 A Cambridge University Lawn Tennis blue circa 1893-94, Cambridge blue & white hooped cap, embroidered cross rackets an initials C.U.L.T.C.; sold together with related ephemera for St John’s College including a lawn tennis fixture list for 1893; together with a college cravat and boater ribbon (9)


488 Eight All England Club Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship programmes dating between 1934 and 1939, all 20-pages £200 - 250


These items belonged to the sportsman C.O.S. Hatton. As well as tennis he excelled at football, hockey & cricket. £250 - 350


491 A fine Victorian Browne & Heppell ‘The Globe’ fishtail lawn tennis racket,


with a fine narrow grooved handle, original complete and unbroken thick stringing and 7 rows of trebbling; sold together with a mahogany multiple racket press by Henry Mallings of Woolwich, circa 1890 (2)


The company, formed by John Philip Browne, Albert Huggins Heppell and Alfred Last was cricket, football and Athletic goods manufacturers in London. In the 1901 census Heppell (1866-1912) was listed as a ‘cycle engineer’ but by 1911 he was described as a ‘Professor Cyril’ of Swimming and Diving. He moved to Brighton in 1907 and began a bicycle diving act. In his first season he broke his arm when he dived into the sea at low tide. On the day of his final dive on 27th. May 1912, the West Pier was packed with spectators. Professor Cyril began his descent but half way down the ramp one of the bicycle wheels wobbled and he fell over the edge of the ramp and dashed his head against the pier decking. “There was a universal gasp of horror and alarm and many of the bystanders fainted.” He died of his injuries 20 minutes later. £150 - 200


489 Three 1950s lawn tennis counter top advertisements, all three show tennis imagery, two of the signs advertise ‘Meltonian Sports White’ shoe cleaner, the third is screen-printed in four colours onto an early plastic board, and reads, ‘Wisden High Velocity Tennis Rackets’, all with collapsible cardboard ‘easel’ stands fixed to the rear, sizes range from 18 by 23cm., 7 by 9in. to 30 by 23cm.. 12 by 9in. £120 - 180


492 The hitherto ‘illegal’ Blackburne DS-107 Double Strung racquet, with two sets of strings which are taken flush to the edge of the frame eliminating deflections and miss-hits off the frame, and providing a larger hitting surface, banned by the ITF for 10 years, in mint original condition and with the original carrying bag; sold together with a Wilson Titanium ‘Roger Federer’ racket signed on the frame by Pat Cash (2) £40 - 60


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