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Tennis Antiques & Collectibles

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1

• Collecting Tennis Memorabilia
  
  1. Why, where, and how
     

Chapter 2

• A Brief History of Tennis
  
  1. Court tennis
     
  2. The game of rackets
     
  3. Beginnings of lawn tennis
     
  4. Tennis comes to America
     
  5. 1901-1918
     
  6. 1919-1940 - The golden age
     

Chapter 3

• An Introduction to Rackets
  
1. Anatomy of a racket
   
2. Dating rackets
   
3. Buying rackets

Chapter 4

• English Racket Makers From Ayres to Wisden
  

Chapter 5

• American Racket Makers From Alex Taylor to Winchester
  

Chapter 6

• Wright & Ditson, Wilson, and Spalding
  

Chapter 7

• Tennis Balls, Ball Boxes and Ball Cans
  
  1. History
     
  2. Construction
     
  3. Ball cans
     

Chapter 8

• Other Tennis Equipment
  
  1. Lawn tennis boxed sets
     
  2. Racket presses
     
  3. Umpire stands
     
  4. Rollers and mowers
     
  5. Chalk markers and tape measures
     
  6. Strings and other things
     

Chapter 9

• Tennis Styles and Fashions
  
  1. Where to look
     
  2. Dating by styles
     
  3. Skirtlifters
     
  4. Caring for clothing
     

Chapter 10

• Ceramics, Silver, and Art
  

Chapter 11

• Collecting Tennis Books
  
  1. Rules
     
  2. Instruction or how-to
     
  3. Histories
     
  4. Autobiographies and biographies
     
  5. Miscellaneous books
     

Chapter 12

• Prints and Other Ephemera
  
  1. Trade cards
     
  2. Posters
     
  3. Ads
     
  4. Magazine illustrations
     
  5. Artists and illustrators
     
  6. Postcards
     
  7. Programs
     
  8. Catalogs, booklets, and pamphlets
     

Chapter 13

• Tennis Photography
  
  1. Tintypes
     
  2. Albumen prints
     
  3. Cartes de visite
     
  4. Cabinet cards
     
  5. Stereographs
     
  6. Kodak
     

Appendix

• Appendix A: Racket Terminology
  
• Appendix B: Correspondence From "The Field"
  
• Appendix C: Resources for the Collector
  
  1. Tennis Museums
     
  2. Dealers
     
  3. Auction Houses
     
• Appendix D: Racket tables
  
  1. Wright & Ditson
     
  2. Spalding
     
  3. Wilson
     
• Appendix E: Patent List
  
• Appendix F: Bibliography
  

Index