A selection of tennis ephemera and other sports including cricket, croquet, horse racing and yachting dating from 1894 Sporting & Dramatic News June 4
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A selection of tennis ephemera and other sports including cricket, croquet, horse racing and yachting dating from 1894 Sporting & Dramatic News June 4th 1904, depicting tennis week at Surbiton with cameo picture of Miss Stawell Brown (Tim Henman's great grandmother), the first lady to serve overarm at Wimbledon with a picture of her serving dated 1904; 1884 Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News depicting the first ladies final at Wimbledon; 1895 print from the Sketch; 1884 'Tennis in the Snow' of Miss L Paterson (Scottish champion); quantity of prints from 1904 by G.W. Beldam of all the greats playing shots at Queen's Club; Black & White magazine 1896 depicting English and Irish tennis teams including Mahony, Dixon, Renshaws, Baddeleys, Hillyard; Sporting & Dramatic News Saturday June 1st 1907 depicting tennis at Surbiton and the Derby; Original Vanity Fair prints of Michael Michailovich 1894, Bishop with racket (in his lighter moments); The Bystander August 27th 1919 Sports & Pastimes; an album of Tennis Magazine pages from 1905 featuring May Sutton, Mrs Lambent Chambers to the 1930's/50's/60's (qty)