Gold Star International

April 3, 2012

1970′s brand and possibly the last series of racquets produced in Australia.                                                                

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Australian Racket Company

April 3, 2012

    Pre ARCO (Also Australian Racket Company), this is a potential business from the mid 1930′s. Little is known about this company, although most newspaper ads for their products appear in NSW.                                             […]

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Olympic Racquet Company

April 3, 2012

Olympic Racquet Co. was believed to have produced racquets from a small workshop in Sydney. In the 1947 Business listings they are located at Trafalgar Lane, Annandale.  We know very little at this point about how long the company operated for.  In a Murdoch retail and mail order company ad from Sydney, Olympic racquets were sold […]

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Unusual Vintage Tennis Racquets 3

February 27, 2012

  The Jeanrot Foldable  Racquet c 1985 A butt cap unwind system untightens the screw section in the throat allowing the racquet to pivot apart. In 2007 a reincarnation emerged called the JENRO which came apart completely for compact packing. This is shown in the Modern Unusual section. Fischer Superform Tuning c1985 Just like the […]

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Unususal Vintage Tennis Racquets 2

February 27, 2012

    Santor S-Pro Steel racquet with really lovely industrial design cues. It is essentially two frames joined together with welded or soldered pins.     The “Ken Rosewall” Seamless (Seamco) c 1971 As you can see the string supports are located inside the extruded aluminium frame leaving a very unusual smooth finish. Ken was […]

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Unusual Vintage Tennis Racquets 1

February 27, 2012

Collecting vintage Tennis racquets (rackets) is a wonderful hobby which has been expanded considerably thanks to Ebay. Racquets never seen in Australia can now be purchased and the array of brands and designs is quite staggering. To appreciate the subject we recommend you find a copy of Siegfried Kuebler’s book “The Book of Tennis Rackets”. […]

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Fin & Deesse Tennis Racquets

February 18, 2012
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The story about Fin is really a story about an Australian who single handedly set about to make the best possible racquets in Taiwan and launch the low cost of production graphite racquets into the global market and in the process establish himself as the foremost designer and innovator of racquet design with graphite technology. […]

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Tennis History & Facebook

February 17, 2012

Owing to some recent contacts with UK & USA tennis collectors organisations,  they have decided to include separate Facebook pages in which to engage all subjects relating to tennis. This access to expert collectors around the world is an invaluable resource. UK Tennis Collectors’ Society USA Tennis Collectors Swiss Tennis History (Private collector – very […]

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World Tennis Magazine (US) Australians On Tour from 1950′s & 1960′s editions

February 5, 2012

Recently we received approval from the magazine owner Randolph Walker to scan some photos from some of the early World Tennis Magazines from the 1950′s and 1960′s. In 2011, I was lucky enough to buy a package of magazines from Sydney that spanned late 1950′s to early 1980′s. Greatly appreciated since copyright laws these days […]

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Top Australian Men in the 1920′s

January 28, 2012
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As a consequence of World War 1 and despite the heavy loss of life, including many Australasian  tennis players such as Anthony Wilding, Arthur O’Hara Wood and Jack Addison to name only 3, tennis in the 1920′s got off to a slow start since many of the young up and comers were enlisted and had […]

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