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Very Early Complete Wooden Boxed Tennis Set, c. 1

A complete 1870s boxed tennis set. Includes four rare matching tilt-head tennis racquets, portable posts, net, two hand-stitched balls, lines, and hardware to lay down a court on grass. Added to the set is a 19th-century illustration of a similar tennis set in use and an antique line marker for grass courts. Everything needed to play tennis on Long Island in the 1870s. RESERVE

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