US Patent No. 455632 Tennis Racket by C Mailings July 12 1891 baseball decor October 12th 1870

October 12th 1870

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US Patent No. 455632 Tennis Racket by C Mailings July 12 1891 baseball decor October 12th 1870Us Patent No. 455632 Tennis Racket by C Mailings July 12 1891 C. Mailings filed this drawing in the summer of 1891, when lawn tennis was still a flannel and grass affair on club courts, and the schematic obsesses over the throat and stringing pattern with the precision of a man who knew a racket's tension was its temperament. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for