Vintage Lawn Tennis Ball Box By Wisden. Schotten Tennis Museum Collection. Not For Sale.
Vintage Lawn Tennis Ball Box By Wisden. Schotten Tennis Museum Collection. Not For Sale.
Early Wisden Tennis Ball Box.
A nice early green cardboard box for a dozon lawn tennis balls by John Wisden & Co. Ltd.. The box does not have the 12 tennis balls but is a really nice collector's piece. The exterior lid is printed with 'Wisden's "Standard" tennis ball. John Wisden & Co. Ltd., Head Office, Fitzgerald ...... Mortlake...... Show Rooms 23, Crane.....ST. London. W.C.2. Manufacturers and Exporters, Athletic Outfitters to H.M. the King'. There is a red paper label stuck onto the box 'FRAGILE, do not crush' hiding some of the wording. The inside lid with bright yellow label 'Wisden's Tennis Balls Manufactured Exclusively for John Wisden & Co. Ltd. by the Avon India Rubber Co. Ltd., Melksham, Wilts. (Eng.)' with a list of foreign agents and 'Avon Tyres for safer Motoring, Avon Golf Balls for better Golf, The name AVON has hall-marked sterling Rubber since 1885'.
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