A card album containing a rare collection of 99 original lawn tennis player photographs including examples taken at Wimbledon including the old Worple
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A card album containing a rare collection of 99 original lawn tennis player photographs including examples taken at Wimbledon including the old Worple Road ground, players and celebrities include: Alonzo, Schmidtzu, V. Richards, J.C.Parke, Cochet, Wills, Nuthall, Lenglen, Mallory, Hunter, Tilden, Ryan, Raymond, Olliff, Lowe, Lacoste, McKane, Kingscote, Norton, Perry, Budge, Borotra, Hare, Vines, Van Ryn, Stammers, James, Gilbert, Austin, Mako, Shields, Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Marble, Petra and more. most of the photographs are annotated to the reverse and measure approx. 4 ½ by 2 1/2in.; sold together with a collection of 20 privately taken photographs showing players on court in the 1933/4 Davis Cup competitions held at Wimbledon, players featured include: Austin, McGrath, Crawford, Shields, Quist Lott, Stoefen, Wood, Hopman, Turnbull and Perry; also 8 tennis themed cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards (127)