A rare late French Brouaye tilt-head Real tennis racquet, c.1870s

A rare late French Brouaye tilt-head Real tennis racquet, c.1870s, with original course gut strings, with green convex wedge stamped Sir W. Anson Bart, the head stamped BROUAYE, with several strings broken, the ash worn in places and wedge stamp worn

Sir William Anson, 3rd Baronet (1843-1914), All Souls Fellows at Oxford University, becoming an effective Liberal politician and constituent lawyer, first lay warden of the College in 1881