The Miss VB Digital Tennis Museum

'The G.B', retailer A.W Gamage of London, Ash frame with Mahogany Convex throat, fishtail tennis racket, with press/brace, late 1890s/1900s.   'The fishtail (fish tail) was an innovation in the Victorian period and was an attractive gimmick to help tennis players to grip their rackets. They were manufactured approximately from the 1890's to the 1920's and their shapely handle is always an attraction to the collector.' Source: https://sportantiques.co.uk.

Retailer AW Gamage of London, wooden squash racket, in wooden press/brace, 1900s.

Wooden Claremont, Spalding, Tennis racket in tennis brace without any strings. C1930s.

Vintage Dunlop Fort wooden tennis racket with picture of Australian tennis player Lew Alan Hoad printed on the frame, circa 1950s, light/medium, grip 3, with a Wilson wooden racket brace on it, brown leather handle.  ‘Lew Hoad was an Australian tennis player who rose to prominence in the 1950s, winning 13 major singles and doubles titles. With his rival and partner, Ken Rosewall, Hoad led Australia to win the Davis Cup in 1953 over the United States. The two were formidable in cup competition and helped Australia regain the trophy in 1955 and 1956. As a doubles team, Hoad and Rosewall won the Wimbledon, French, Australian, and Italian titles in 1953. In 1956 Hoad defeated Rosewall in Wimbledon singles again and, with his Australian and French titles, would have won the Grand Slam that year if Rosewall had not beaten him for the U.S. title.’ Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lew-Hoad.

Vintage Dunlop wooden MaxPly McEnroe Tennis Racket and case, medium 4 1/2, made in England. This was the last wooden tennis racket John McEnroe used, based on a popular Dunlop MaxPly Fort and came out in 1982. In 1983 he went on to the graphite revolution with the Dunlop Max 200G.

Vintage 1970s Dunlop Maxply, wooden Tennis Racket, Medium 4 

Vintage 1970s Dunlop Maxply, wooden Tennis Racket, T6 with Dunlop original racket brace

Vintage Falcon, ABaily Co & Ltd wooden Tennis Racket, Medium, Blue dragon shield on the back with ABaily & Co Ltd underneath but the paint has chipped off, small falcon logo under the text. Similar look to the Grays of Cambridge tennis rackets C1940s.

Vintage Wooden Tennis Racket, 'Grande Maison De Blanc, Bruxelles, printed on frame 'Ready', possibly circa 1910s.

Vintage Grays Double Blue Supreme Model 1970s Wooden Squash Racket.    

Vintage Grays of Cambridge wooden lopsided Real tennis racket. C1930. A group of three Wooden lopsided Real tennis rackets. The game of Real tennis goes back 500 years, the racket construction having changed little in this time with the rackets still being restricted to wood to this day. The convex wedged racket dates from the 1930s & the concave wedge rackets of more recent date. Grays are the sole manufacturer now of Real tennis rackets. The company was founded in 1855. Source: jimstennis.com. 

Wooden Hamley's London Tennis Racket, small engraved name 'M.A. Wilson', metal Zephyr cross brace. C1900 - 1940.

1980's AMF Gold frame Head Boron Arthur Ashe, Competition 3, tennis racket with a black leather handle and beige and black suede case. Arthur Ashe was an American professional tennis player who won three Grand Slam singles titles. Arthur played with a silver version of this racket when he won the Men's Singles Championship at Wimbledon against Jimmy Connors in 1975.

Metallic grey frame with black handle, FIRST printed on the frame near the handle, black Lacoste logo printed on strings, original white Lacoste case.

Vintage wooden Tennis Racket, with O.Raybaud engraved into the wood and 13 1/4, in a rectangle tennis press/brace. 

Vintage 1970s Slazenger wooden squash racket with X.125 printed on it. Previous owner 'Paul M.Sims'  printed on it with name and address written inside the original case.

Black frame with red and orange design towards the base, black handle, graphite reinforced, 95 Square inches,

Yonex Midplus/95 square inches, RD Power 10 Long tennis racket in case. Yonex Co., Ltd. is a Japanese sports equipment manufacturing company. Yonex produces equipment and apparel for tennis, badminton, golf, and running. Its range of products manufactured and commercialised includes equipment for badminton, tennis and golf. Founded in 1946.