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TWO 1948 OLYMPIC OPENING CEREMONY TICKET STUBS
No.743 and 744, with Olympic postage stamps (2)
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ROGER BANNISTER FIRST SUB FOUR-MINUTE MILE:
An Oxford University Athletic Club v. Amateur Athletic Association, match programme, 6/5/54; an advertising poster from the meet; and a British Games, match programme, 28/5/55 (3)
The first programme in this lot relates to the historical achievement by Roger Bannister when he ran the first sub four-minute mile. The second programme in this lot relates to the mile where three runners ran under four minutes.
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A WHITE MASTERS TOURNAMENT CADDY UNIFORM
autographed by Jack Nicklaus, the front numbered 89 and the reverse lettered Nicklaus with certificate of authenticity
Sold for £140
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A COPELAND LATE SPODE JUG
the olive-green ground decorated with figures of golfers in relief, the base stamped and impressed Copeland Late Spode, in excellent condition 6.1/4in. (15.8cm) high
Sold for £250
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MUIRFIELD: THE HONOURABLE COMPANY OF EDINBURGH GOLFERS
A mahogany ballot box fitted with Yes/No drawers, the sloping top also inscribed Yes No, with original ball and member name attachments, 15in. (38.2cm) high; and a letter on Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers headed paper relating to the ballot box
The above ballot box was owned by and used by the Muirfield club and was purchased by the vendor (a member) when the club offer three ballot boxes that have become surplus to requirements to members in 1985
Sold for £1000
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THE FOLLOWING LOT IS BEING SOLD ON BEHALF OF PARENTS FOR THE EARLY INTERVENTION OF AUTISM IN CHILDREN (PEACH)
AFTER GRAEME BAXTER
USB Warburg Cup, The 17th Green, The Ocean Course, Kiawah Island
signed in pencil in the margin by the artist
artist proof
the colour print bearing twenty-three player autographs, including Ray Floyd, Tom Watson, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Nick Faldo, Sam Torrance, Curtis Strange, Bernard Langer, Mark Omera, Mark Calcavecchia etc
20 x 27.1/2in. (50.8 x 69.7cm) unframed
The print was produced to commemorate the inaugural Senior Tour team competition in 2001
For further information on the Charity please go to www.peach.org.uk
Sold for £150
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AN IRELAND V. SCOTLAND INTERNATIONAL RUGBY UNION VIP, MATCH PROGRAMME, 24/2/1906
the silk covered programmed in good condition
Sold for £1400
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AN AUTOGRAPHED REAL PHOTOGRAPH BLACK AND WHITE POSTCARD
of early 1920s England Rugby Union captain William Davies and scrum half Cecil Kershaw both wearing England kit
Sold for £80
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A COLOURED NEWSPAPER CUTTING OF THE ENGLISH RUGBY TOURING SIDE
who toured Australia and New Zealand, March - November 1888, the cutting with printed caption The English Football Team, the image 7 x 9.3/4in. (17.8 x 24.8cm), framed and glazed
The image was taken on board ship enroute to New Zealand
Sold for £120
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A DON BRADMAN AUTOGRAPHED BLACK AND WHITE REAL PHOTOGRAPH POSTCARD
Sold for £130
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THE FOLLOWING LOTS 30 TO 136 ARE THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE TENNIS COLLECTOR
A GIBSON & SONS TENNIS JARDINIÈRE
circa 1900, the body decorated with a transfer-printed tennis scene depicting a mixed doubles match, the background hand-painted, the base with stamped Gibson & Sons factory marks and numbered 5647, on gilt decorated bun feet, 8.1/2in. (21.5cm) high
Sold for £700
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A WHITE-METAL TENNIS TROPHY
the trophy inscribed Coupe Larking - ST Omer Roy, Double Messieurs, Aout, 1926, Gouttenoire - H.Cochet, Aout 1927, Brame - Hilliard Micard, Aout 1928, H. Cochet - Gouttenoire, Aout 1929 Reynaud - Vlasto, with further inscription from winners from 1933 to 1938, on square-shaped marble base, 13.1/2in. (34.3cm) high
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A GERMAN STONEWARE STEIN WITH PEWTER-MOUNTED HINGED COVER
decorated with an incised panel of a lady tennis player and floral border, the base with impressed factory mark and numbered 1002, circa 1900, 10in. (25.5cm) high; and another German stoneware stein, with hinged pewter-mounted cover, decorated with a tennis scene, inscribed Bei Spiel, Und Scherz, Bleibt Froh, Das, Herz, the base with impressed factory mark and numbered 1914, 10in. (25.5cm) high (2)
Provenance
Christie's South Kensington: Tennis and Racket Sports, 16 June 1995, Lot 102A
Sold for £360
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AN OAK AND BRASS-BOUND STATIONARY/NEEDLEWORK BOX
the hinged lids opening to reveal a fitted interior on one side, each lid surmounted by a brass tennis racket and ball and with central brass carry handle, on brass bound bun feet, 11.1/2in. (29cm) wide
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AN AMERICAN CANDY BOX FORMED AS A TABLE TENNIS TABLE
circa 1900, with turned wooden legs supporting a card box with green baize covered top, the top with two painted card rackets and string net (possibly missing table tennis ball, 3.1/2 x 1.3/4in. (9 x 4.5cm); and a small tin box decorated with a female tennis player, 1.3/4in. (4.5cm) high (2)
Provenance
Christie's South Kensington: Tennis and Racket Sports, 16 June 1995, Lot 85
Sold for £200
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A SILVER PHOTOGRAPH FRAME
Birmingham 1915, the shaped top decorated with a ladies tennis match, 11.1/2in. (29.1cm) high; another white-metal example the border decorated with tennis scenes, 10in. (25.4cm) high; and two modern tennis related photograph frames (4)
Sold for £320
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U.S.L.T.A. CHALLENGE CUP 1934:
A MINIATURE AMERICAN SILVER REPLICA OF THE U.S. L.T.A CHALLENGE CUP
by Black, Starr & Frost, Gorham, the amphora vase-shaped body on circular spreading base, the rim and base decorated with laurel band, the trophy inscribed U.S.L.T.A, Lawn Tennis Championship, Of The, United States, Mens Singles, West Side Tennis Club, 1934, Winner, Frederick J. Perry, on circular plinth, 12.1/2in. (31.7cm) high overall
This match, where Fred Perry defeated Jack Crawford in five sets, was the first all-foreign men's final at Forest Hills for seven years. By defeating Crawford in five sets, Perry denied the Australian his chance of being the first "Grand Slam" winner
Provenance
Christie's South Kensington: Traditional Sports, 20 June 1997, Lot 254
Sold for £3500
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EVAN BAILLIE NOEL & J.O.M. CLARK
A HISTORY OF TENNIS
London: Oxford University Press, 1924, two vols., 4°
one of "20" specially bound copies on hand-made paper, this copy unnumbered, colour frontispiece, half tone and collotype plates, folding chart giving dimensions of all known courts at end of volume II (first few leaves of volume I with marginal damp staining), original green half morocco gilt by Oxford Binding (joints lightly rubbed), to edge gilt, others uncut (2)
Oxford University Press archives disclose that , in addition to the 20 numbered sets in green morocco, there were two more sets issued as spares but without numbers, of which this is believed to be one
Provenance
Christie's South Kensington: Tennis and Racket Sports, 16 June 1995, Lot 24A
Sold for £1800
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J. PARMLY PARET & WILLIAM HARVEY MADDREN
LAWN TENNIS. ITS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
with added chapter on Lacrosse
New York: Macmillian, 1904, 8°, limited to 100 large paper copies, of which this in No.46, half tone plates (stain to inner margin of half title), contemporary half morocco (extremities rubbed) top edge gilt;
and J PARMLY PARET: Methods and Players of Modern Tennis
edited by S. Wallis Merrihew, New York: American Lawn Tennis, 1915, 8°, photogravure frontispiece, half tone plates, original pictorial gilt, top edge gilt (2)
Provenance
Christie's South Kensington: Tennis and Racket Sports, 16 June 1995, Lot 28
Sold for £150
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FRANCOIS GARSAULT
ART DU PAUMIER - RAQUETIER, ET DE LA PAUME
Paris: 1767, 2° First Edition, collation: fly title, forward pp. iii-iv, text pp. 1-34 and 5 numbered engraved plates in good condition (some browning of text), modern red half morocco gilt by MacDonald of Connecticut, U.S.A [Mars Historical Notes, 1977, p.1]
Besides edition various sections of the Dictionnaire des Arts et Metiers, from which this work on Real Tennis is extracted, Francois Alexandre Pierre de Garsault, published various books from 1733 onwards on horses, carriages, geography, plants, animals and medicine, and was captain "des haras de France" Although not of great length, his Art du Paumier - Raquetier was the first account of Real Tennis to follow the publication of the laws by C. Hulpeau in Le Jey Royal de la Paume, 1632 (reprinted in 1659 in La Maison Rustique). It is described by Noel & Clark as "one of the most important links between past and modern tennis," and by Mars as "one of the most valuable works available on the early history of tennis. At the time of its publication this book contained the most detailed descriptions available on every aspect of the game. The French first edition contains five excellent folio plates which have appeared in many later works on tennis
Provenance
Christie's South Kensington: Tennis and Racket Sports, 16 June 1995, Lot 11
Sold for £1500
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WILLIAM T. TILDEN & S. WALLIS MERRIHEW (EDITOR)
MATCH PLAY AND THE SPIN OF THE BALL
New York: American Lawn Tennis, 1925, large 8°, number 39 of 340 "edition de luxe" copies, signed by the author and editor, photogravure frontispiece, half tone plates, original publisher's half brown raon gilt, (extremities rubbed) top edge gilt
Provenance
Christie's South Kensington: Tennis and Racket Sports, 16 June 1995, Lot 35
Sold for £300
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A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL GILT-METAL SPILL VASES
each decorated with a figure of a boy with tennis racket and ball on naturalistic base, circa 1920s, 4.1/4in. (10.8cm) high; and a Art Deco style mantle clock with a white-metal figure of a lady tennis player, 7in. (17.8cm) high (3)
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A WHITE-METAL NOVELTY CONDIMENT SET
the base formed as a tennis racket, with salt, pepper and mustard (lacking mustard spoon), on ball feet, 7.1/2in. (19cm) wide; and a white-metal preserve dish with cut glass liner, decorated with tennis rackets, balls and nets, with swing handle, 3.1/2in. (9cm) diameter (2)
Sold for £190
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A VICTORIAN SILVER CRUET SET
by S. Blanckensee, Birmingham, 1879
the handle formed as a pair of early rackets forming a central arch surmounted by a pair of tennis balls, 2.1/2in. (6.4cm) long; and a white-metal salt and pepper set, the bases formed as three crossed tennis rackets, 2.3/4in. (7cm) high (3)
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A WHITE-METAL CONDIMENT SET
the cut-glass divisions for salt, pepper, oil and vinegar, (lacking spoon), surmounted by a pair of crossed rackets and ball, on oak square base with ball feet, 6.1/2in. (16.5cm) high
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Christie's South Kensington, Tennis Memorabilia, 20 June 1997, Lot 189
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A BRONZE FIGURE OF A MALE TENNIS PLAYER
circa 1890s, on marble base, 8in. (20.2cm) high; another bronzed figure of a tennis player, on rectangular marble base, 8.1/2in. (21.5cm) high; and a spelter figure of a tennis player about to serve, 10.1/2in. (26.7cm) high (3)
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A BRONZE FIGURE OF A MALE RACKETS PLAYERS
circa 1900s, 9in. (22.8cm) high; and a bronzed figure of a tennis player about to serve, on circular marble base, 10in. (25.4cm) high (2)
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A SHEFFIELD PLATE INKWELL
with two cut-glass reservoirs, one lid detached the central plinth surmounted by two tennis rackets and tennis ball, on oval stepped ebony base, 12in. (30.5cm) wide; a white-metal pen tray and inkwell decorated with crossed tennis rackets and ball, 8.1/2in. (21.5cm) wide; and a pair of miniature modern white-metal tennis rackets (4)
Sold for £360
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A SPODE WIMBLEDON CENTENARY 1877-1977 PLATE
No.320 of a limited edition of 1977, the obverse autographed by Bjorn Borg and Virginia Wade, the 1977 Wimbledon mens and womens singles champions, the reverse bearing a further eighteen autographs including Fred Perry, Chris Evert, John Newcombe, Bjorn Borg, Jimmy Connors, Arthur Ashe, Don Budge etc, with certificate of authenticity and in original fitted box, 10.1/2in. (26.6cm) diameter
Provenance
Christie's South Kensington: Tennis Memorabilia, 20th June 1997, Lot 103
Sold for £350
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A BRASS PAPER CLIP
modelled as a pair of crossed rackets; another similar; and another single racket example, all mounted on hardwood bases, 8.1/4in. (21cm) long and smaller (3)
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