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← Sporting Memorabilia 4th & 5th November 2019

A truly unique tennis related gramophone record collection, firstly an 'Autographed' ''Reception to The British Lawn Tennis Team'' (Australia 1929) 78

Hammer Price:
£240
Estimated Price:

£250 - £350

A truly unique tennis related gramophone record collection, firstly an 'Autographed' ''Reception to The British Lawn Tennis Team'' (Australia 1929) 78rpm record - A very rare original, 10 inch, black shellac, two-sided 78rpm gramophone record released on the Colombia record label in Sydney, Australia, an incredible recording of the voices of the British touring representatives - Harry A. Parker (New Zealand), Humbert A. Sabelli (Team Manager & Secretary of the LTA), J.(Colin) Gregory (Australian Open winner that year), H.W. ''Bunny'' Austin, H. Frank Peach (Australia), Miss Floris Conway (Australian Tennis Player), and Miss Marjorie Cox Crawford (Australian who married Jack Crawford), uniquely, all of them signed the original disc platter and whose names are therefore moulded into the surface of the reverse of this record, recordings are of the team's fascinating individual impressions on their arrival at the ''little town'' of Sydney, Australia; secondly - A double-sided 8 inch 78rpm shellac gramophone record titled ''Useful Hints to Lawn Tennis Players Part 1 and Part 2 by (Sir) Francis Gordon Lowe, A Leading Authority on The Game.'' (June 1929.), Lowe is best known for winning the Australasian Championships in 1915, supplied in its original ''Broadcast'' long-playing record sleeve - the original price being one shilling and three pence; thirdly - ''The Game of Lawn Tennis'' with Lord Aberdare, Neal Fraser (Australia), Lew Hoad (Australia), Harry Hopman (Australia), Barry Mackay (USA) and Bill Holmes (Queen's Club). A 7 inch 45rpm E.P. by EMI (1960), in a fine, original picture sleeve; fourthly - ''Learn Tennis with Arthur Ashe - For Beginners and Advanced Players.'' (1974), a double-sided 12 inch LP, supplied in the original sleeve and with an instructional picture booklet (both in fine condition) on the Manhattan Recording Co. label; together with dvd copies of ''Little Miss Poker Face (Helen Wills)'', ''Tennis Highlights'' with Raymond Glendenning plus two others copies of period tennis films. (8 items)