TENNIS/ AN ALBUM OF/ FAMOUS PLAYERS/ IN ACTION
John Player & Sons
Category
Ephemera
Date
circa 1930 - circa 1939
Materials
Card and paper
Measurements
127 mm (height); 187 mm (width); 4 mm (depth)
Place of origin
Great Britain
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671406
Summary
A thin cream card covered cigarette card album issued by John Player and Sons (circa 1930s). With the title on the front is a brown line drawing of a tennis player about to serve. On the back is a green circle with a picture in green of a sailors head with 'Players Navy Cut' around it and 'Players Please' in brown. There are nineteen pages with three spaces on each to insert a card of a famous tennis player. Book open at page with female tennis players - Miss Helen Jacobs, V.G. Kirby, J. Van Rye and J. Yamagishl.
Makers and roles
John Player & Sons, engraver and publisher