Early tilt-headed lawn tennis racket
A sporting treble of Cricket, Boxing and Tennis made up the 311-lot sale held at Christie’s South Kensington back on June 22. This early tilt- headed lawn tennis racket which made one of the highest prices in the tennis section had the double distinction of being an early piece of equipment with a provenance to a pioneer champion of the sport.
Thought to have been made by Henry Mallings of Woolwich, it is applied with a silver-plated plaque r…