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The Journal of the Table Tennis Collectors’ Society

THE TABLE TENNIS

The Journal of the Table Tennis Collectors’ Society

28 Spring

2002

Play in the Drawing-Room c. 1900

IIn this issue…n this issue… · Who is Graham (p1)

· Gerald Gurney - A Tribute (p2) by Alan Duke, Chuck Hoey and Mi-chael Thomson

· Günther’s Pins: Part 1 World Championships (p4) by Günther Angenendt

· Ebay - the World Marketplace (p6)

· Table Tennis Heritage Museum Website (p8)

· Take My Tip—Watch His Foot-work (p9) sent by Robin Radford

· Chinese Card (p9) sent by Keith Bowler

· UK Trade Marks (p10) by Alan Duke

· Table Tennis Variants (p11) by Gerald Gurney

· Philatelic Pages (p12) by Anton Zweibel

· Nets and Edges (p15)

· Membership List 2002 (p16)

No. 28 The Table Tennis Collector Page 1

Editor: Graham Trimming 17 Gwendale, Pinkneys Green Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 6SH England Tel: +44 (0)1628 636978 email: [email protected]

M any of you will no doubt be wondering who the new editor

of this journal is. Does he have the credentials to follow in the steps of his illustrious predecessor Gerald Gurney? I cannot claim to have to same depth of expertise in the sub-ject of table tennis history as Gerald has – in fact, much of what I have learnt has come from his own publi-cations. What I can bring to the job is a certain amount of passion for the subject.

I have been around in table tennis for about thirty years, having started playing in my local league in 1972 at the age of nineteen. A year later I formed Cippenham Table Tennis Club and have been its General Sec-retary ever since. I have also been Fixtures Secretary of the Slough & District Table Tennis League since 1975 and was its Chairman from 1981 until 2000.

I am pleased to say that Cippenham TTC is now one of the biggest and best established clubs in England and was national Club of the Year in 1996 and 1997 and runner-up in 2001. It boasts 240 members and runs about 35 teams in various com-petitions. The highlight of my table tennis career came in October 1996 when the purpose-built Cippenham Table Tennis Centre was opened at a cost of £520,000. It is still (one of) the best centre(s) in the country.

I still play the sport, mainly in the top division of the Slough League and represent that town in other competi-

tions. I have also traveled, without any success, to World and European Veterans’ championships from 1994 to 1998 and have spectated at quite of few “professional” events around Europe as well.

My passion for table tennis antiques came after seeing Gerald’s exhibition at the English Closed Championships early in 1992 and I immediately tried to start my own collection. I say “try” because I was not very successful at first and had to wait until late 1993 for any success. Since then I have amassed a sizeable collection of boxed sets, other equipment, books, prints, postcards and other parapher-nalia.

My collection was also bolstered by a visit to the Terry Vance auction in February 2001 when I bought a num-ber of items for myself as well as for the English Table Tennis Association in its quest to start its own museum.

Who Is Graham?

Graham pictured with some of his acquisi-tions from the Terry Vance auction

Acknowledgement I hope that you like the style of this journal. I have to say that I have little imagination and could never be a “proper” editor of a magazine. Some of the style is borrowed from The Tennis Collector and I am grateful to Gerald for hav-ing furnished me with copies of this. Although edited by Gerald that publication owes much to the layout and design of Bob Everitt.

Next issue - publication June 2002 - copy date 1 May 2002

28 Spring 2002

TTHEHE T TABLEABLE TTENNISENNIS

CCOLLECTOROLLECTOR

The editor has recently published a 16-page newsletter about the origins of ta-ble tennis in his local area. Entitled “The Table Tennis and Pastimes Pioneer—A Special Edition for the Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead Area” it features all the press cuttings from the newspapers from that area in the years 1901 to 1904. Graham has also used photographs of items and scans of original prints to illustrate the publication. Those of you with access to the internet can find a PDF copy (it is a large file that takes time to download) at the following address:

http://freespace.virgin.net/g.trimming/100 Years Ago Newsletter.pdf

From the Editor,

Welcome to my first issue of The Ta-ble Tennis Collector and I hope you enjoy its contents. I have been over-whelmed by the messages of support and good luck that I have received from you and I thank you most sin-cerely for that.

I am also pleased to say that I have received many contributions that I could not fit into the journal and also retain its 16-page format - I shall be pleased to include more of these in issues 29 and 30. This, of course, also means that I have not had to raid my own reservoir of items and have been able to retain them for a “rainy day”.

My thanks to all those who submitted contributions and I hope those that have not yet had theirs included will understand. I have very interesting items from Keith Bowler, Hans-Peter Trautmann, Robin Radford, Winfried Engelbrecht, Rudolf Muller, Jean Devys and Gerald, as well as some cuttings about his table tennis mu-seum from Bob Op de Beeck.

Graham Trimming


privilege to know you as a friend, col-league, editor, correspondent, and Founding Father. You have given

invaluable help to all of us by sharing your knowledge, and our many years of ex-changes have pro-vided countless hours of fascinating pleasure.

Chuck Hoey

G erald, you have always been my Most Distinguished Col-

league, ever since we first began our friendship by cor-r e s p o n d e n c e some 20 years ago.

Thanks to you for introducing me to a very special world of Ping Pong past. It has been a unique

A s I have been asked by our new Editor to pen a short piece about

his predecessor, it would seem to be the perfect occasion on which to thank Gerald for his foresight in founding this magazine, and thus bringing together l ike-minded enthusiasts from many parts of the world. Many new friendships have been formed, with all members sharing in the wealth of historical knowledge that Gerald has brought to the publication over the subsequent 9 years.

We all know Gerald as the proud possessor of one of the largest racket sports collections in the world (and I don't think there can be many auction houses or antique shops in the south east that don't know him!), but there is much more. The Table Tennis Collector is based on the larger-circulation Tennis Collector, which Gerald continues to edit. This, to-gether with exhibiting parts of his col-lection at events far and wide, and assisting TV companies with period pieces, takes up much of his time. It may not be generally known that Ge-rald is also a qualified lawn tennis, table tennis and squash coach, and was for many years heavily involved in English Schools Table Tennis. He also found time to write three books:

Tennis, Squash and Badminton Bygones (1984) Table Tennis – The Early Years(1988) The Racket (1994)

On a personal note, many thanks for the numerous offers of hospitality in order to spend time viewing (and photographing) his collection, only managed on one occasion (so far!).

Alan Duke

Gerald Gurney-A Tribute

G erald Gurney has been the doyen of the Table Tennis and

Ping Pong Collectors’ World for well over twenty years. Indeed he was the Founder of it.

My own interest developed in the 1970s when I put on several exhibi-tions of original Ping Pong Equipment and even Demonstration Matches using battledores and corks balls at Table Tennis Internationals in Scot-land including the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships in Edin-burgh in 1979. I thought that I was alone in the field until 14 Septem-ber 1981 Gerald wrote to say that a mutual friend, Martin Foulser of Stiga U.K., had mentioned to him that we shared a com-mon interest.

It soon became clear that Ge-rald’s collection and accumula-tion of informa-tion was far in advance of mine. He sent me a list of Table Tennis items he had at that time, a total of 53. Here is a copy of his Item No. 1. It shows his meticulous and scholarly approach which led to his later publi-cations on the subject.

As is seen, it was all written in his

own inimitable handwriting. This has not changed and I am sure it never will. Gerald still deigns to use a word processor or even a typewriter to communicate with his friends and fellow collectors. But what has changed is his collection of table ten-nis artefacts. I very much doubt if he could now tell you how many items he has. He probably has instant re-call of each and every one of them and he has used this accumulation of items to build up his knowledge of the origins and history of the game.

All who read this will be indebted to Gerald not just for creat-ing the field of Table Tennis Col-lecting (and for that mat-ter Racketa-nia gener-ally) but also, more specifically, for starting the Table

Tennis Collectors’ Society and pro-ducing The Table Tennis Collector Journal for 9 years.

Gerald, you have enriched the lives of all who shared your passion and we thank you for that.

Michael Thomson

I am pleased to include tributes from Chuck Hoey, Alan Duke and Mi-chael Thomson to Gerald for his vision and efforts on behalf of collec-tors during the last nine years. Many thanks to the afore-mentioned gentlemen and especially to Alan who also supplied the photographs.


Günther’s Pins Part 1:

World

Championships

T he first association that pro-duced official badges for their

championships was the ETTA. Very early (exact date unknown—perhaps in the 20s) the ETTA produced a set of circular brooches (4.2cm in diame-ter) in different colours for Official (black), Interpreter (orange), Press (green), Host (light blue), Umpire (dark green), Steward (dark blue) and possibly Referee (red) although there is no example of the latter in my col-lection. Every brooch had a number so the Association was able to recall them after the events. Most, how-ever, were lost when the ETTA’s Featherstone office was bombed. These pins were probably used in the first World Championships but I am not sure.

The first official WC pins were pro-duced for the 1935 WC in London. There was a brooch for the Commit-tee and a lapel or collar button. Pra-gue 1936 saw the first needle, a little silver coloured one. I have been told by the Austrian association that there was no pin for the WC 1937 in Ba-den. The 1935 design was again used in 1938 and besides the Stew-ard there is another of the same de-sign without the inscription.

In Cairo 1939 there were two: a silver coloured lapel button and a bronze coloured needle. Paris, the first WC after the war had none (I have never seen one and never heard about one).

Günther Angenendt

There are many table tennis collectors with badges in their collections—perhaps even most of us have some badges somewhere in the house even if we do not describe it as a collection. In the first 27 issues of the Col-lector there has been some, but not much, about badges so when Günther Angenendt offered pages from his catalogue I jumped at it. Günther will, of course, be readily known to many of you especially those that fre-quent the bigger events. I have seen Günther at many of these, easily recognised by his hat, full of badges, and with a passion for his collection that has earned him the amiable nickname of “Badgeman”. Günther here shares the first page from his catalogue and promises that he can keep me going for 130 issues!

1938 London England Steward

(vr,b)

1948 Wembley England

(vr,b)

1949 Stockholm Sweden

(r,b)

1950 Budapest Hungary

(vr,b)

1951 Vienna Austria

(vr,b)

1952 Bombay

India

(vr,b) (vr,sh-s)

1953 Bucharest Rumania

Player Official (vr,b) (vr,b)

1954 Wembley England

Player Official (vr,b) (vr,b)

1955 Utrecht

Netherlands Player Lady-Player (vr,b) (vr,sh-s)

1955 Utrecht

Netherlands Official (vr,b)

1956 Tokyo Japan

(vr,b)

1957 Stockholm Sweden

(r,n)

1959 Dortmund Germany

(vr,b)

1961 Beijing China

Championship (vr,b)

1961 Beijing China

Souvenir (r.b) (r,n)

1961 Brijing China

Same as (left) (vr,b)

1963 Prague

Czechoslovakia Official (vr,b)

1963 Prague

Czechoslovakia ITTF (vr,b)

1963 Prague

Czechoslovakia

(r,n)

It was my late friend Ken Wilkinson, who wrote in November 1993 “an emblo-phillist is of historic importance to table tennis and should be encouraged”. He was the first to call the collectors of badges, lapel pins, stickpins (needles) “emblophillist”, pronounced em’blo.fillist. To honour him, and to give all inter-ested collectors a small summary of the pins available I made a coloured cata-logue. To make you familiar with it you need to know the abbreviations I used.

The frequency of an item I tried to mark with c = common; uc = uncommon, r = rare; vr = very rare and u = unique.

I made the difference between p = pins (butterflies); n = needles, b = brooches and screw p = screw pins.

At this time the catalogue has 130 picture-pages and 130 text pages. Unfortu-nately the copy-shops in Germany charge one pound per page so it is too ex-pensive for any collector to buy. I can therefore offer the original negatives to interested collectors and, of course, the text pages for the acceptable price of 5 pounds.

Günther Angenendt

For the sake of completeness I show here, also, the pins missing from Günther’s photograph (pictures © Table Tennis Heritage Museum). From left to right—1935 London, 1936 Prague and 1939 Cairo (Ed.)



racket made $56.

This set of sandpaper-covered rack-

ets in a dark red wooden box made $143 while an excellent example of Victorian pyrography on a

sporting the trade-mark W&D made a price of $317 consistent with their

rarity but the Ger-man Tische-Tennis set twice also failed to meet its reserve. The single AM&I Co. Ping-Pong

There are many opportunities to acquire playing equipment on Ebay, though much of what is on offer is of little interest. However, Jaques sets like the one above are desirable even though this one did not meet its optimistic reserve, the highest bid being $251.

The pair of single(?)-skin rackets

Ebay - the World Marketplace

While for the most part the minds of the readers of this publication may be set in history, we can use modern technology to further our research and also search for the missing components of our collections. One such tool is the Internet and many members are hooked up to this most useful and formidable of resources. For those wishing to enlarge their collections of memorabilia the Ebay online auction site is especially forthcom-ing. During my own surfing I have seen the aliases of many members, quite a few of whom have beaten me to prized acquisitions. Ebay is truly a world marketplace where anything and (almost) everything is traded. I have acquired items from many different countries although the site has an unmistakeable American bias about it. I thought it would be interesting to highlight some of the items that have been traded on Ebay over the past few months, showing what prices are realised in a global market-place. I intend to make this a regu-lar feature of the journal. As can be seen from the following, all manner of different items can be found.

www.ebay.com

Playing equipment

Postcards are plentiful on Ebay and are well known to readers. Therefore I have not included any exam-ples. However, this beautiful Victorian Christmas card, which sold for £52, would grace any collection.


Trophies

Music ephemera relating to table ten-nis does not appear often. However,

I managed to snap up this cover (only) of a 1905 hit(?) for $15.

I don’t know when the two figurines date from. Can anyone help? The one on the left is de-scribed as Hungarian vintage hand-painted Hollohaza and made $51, much less than the $195 that the signed Herend (right) fetched. Can anyone supply more information about these?

Here are three examples of Royal Beyreuth pottery depicting table ten-nis motives and the USA flag. The dish above made the staggering price of $560, the two creamers made $259 (right) and $332 (below).

Pottery and ceramics

This is a fantastic Bergman Vienna bronze of two pugs play-ing ping-pong. It has the authenticating Bergman stamp on its base. The seller informed me that it probably dated from the 1920s or 1930s. Can anyone be more specific? It sold for $400.

Music

Books

This version of Parker’s book was unknown to me. The reference to Abraham and Strauss is a mystery and does not appear in Hans Kreischer’s brilliant bibliography. It sold for $123 while the Richie/Harrison book (also 1902) fetched $33.

There have been a number of trophies for sale recently. The hallmarked silver spoon (above) dated 1937 made $45 while the bronze medal (left), inscribed 23.3.1927 Sweden—Hungary sold for a meagre $15. It is a competitor’s medal from an international match.


Table Tennis Heritage Museum Website

www.tabletennismuseum.com

Chuck Hoey, the curator of the Table Tennis Heritage Museum, has established an abso-lutely awesome website. If any of you surfers have not yet paid it a visit, do so today. Those of you who are not online - borrow a friend’s machine for a few hours. I have not counted the number of photographs on this site but there are several hundreds.

The Heritage Museum collection is up for sale - Chuck would be pleased to hear from any would-be sponsors. His contact information can be found in the membership list else-where in this publication.

In this issue I have concentrated on early sets, choosing some of the most interesting of the 50 photographs in that section.

Part 1:

Early Sets

5. Spalding boxed set with single sheet vellum cane bamboo rackets, c.1902.

7. Table Tennis, J.W.Spear, Bavaria, c.1902, with 4 vellum battledores, rare ball retriever and wire ball bas-ket.

6. Parlour Tennis, 1902, pair of vel-lum battledores. Manufactured by T. Ordish & Co.

1. Gossima, 1891, with 10-inch high net and pair of vellum battledores. The first commercial boxed set of tennis on a table. Extremely rare.

2. Gossima or Ping-Pong, c.1900, pair of vellum battledores.

4. Ping-Pong, Parker Bros. (USA) with Hamley reference on boxlid. Hamley Bros. had the original trade-mark for the name Ping-Pong, soon thereafter joining Jaques.

8. Table Tennis, McLoughlin Bros., c.1902, with 4 bats trimmed in red leather, and very rare ball retriever.

3. Table Tennis, by Frank Sugg, Eng-land c.1902, with very rare wire free-standing net.

All photographs © Table Tennis Heritage Museum and may not be used without the express permission of Chuck Hoey.


12. Crown Table Tennis, The New Parlour Game, with decorative box lid showing pictures of the English royal monarchs. Parchment battledores & very rare web covered cork balls, which have a surprisingly good bounce. c.1900.

16. The Dandy Table Tennis set, New Zealand, c.1902, with unusual bats featuring decorative leather cov-ered discs. The only known example.

9. Rare boxed set with cloth covered balls, The New Table Tennis, c.1902.

11. Another example of the beautiful Spalding set with elegant cane single sheepskin rackets and 12-ball tube in a fine wood box. Very rare. c.1902.

10. Spalding set in wood box with Table Tennis booklet, c.1902.

15. Bogle Table Tennis set with very rare bamboo ball retriever.

13. Table Tennis or Clip-Clap, with pair of fine square handle battledores with leather wrapped grips. Australia c.1902. The only known example.

14. Pouch Ball - An Improved Table Tennis, by E.I.Horsman, NY c.1904. This very rare set with large colour lithograph has pouches attached to the net with modified scoring.

A Chinese card, sent by Keith Bowler. Keith acquired the card in Sydney (Australia) about 1960.

“Take my tip—watch his footwork” c. 1958 sent by Robin Radford.


UK Trade Marks by Alan Duke

Alan follows up his article about UK patents in the last issue (and previous issues) with this list of trade marks. We are indebted to Alan for his research in this field which is adding to the available knowledge for collectors and others interested in the early history. Were there similar patents and trademarks in other countries? Can you research in your country?

No. Description of application Trade Mark 157,615 Indoor Games. JOHN JAQUES & SON, 102, Hatton Garden, London, E.C. ; Manufactur-

ers.––16th July 1891.

233,177 A Table Game. HAMLEY BROTHERS, 512, Oxford Street, London, W. ; 64, Regent Street, London, W. ; 35, New Oxford Street, London, W.C. ; 86–87, and 231, High Holborn, London, W.C. ; Toy Importers and Manufacturers.––20th Septem-ber 1900.

235,131 A New Game. SLAZENGER & SONS, 10, Ducksfoot Lane, Upper Thames Street, London, E.C. ; Manufacturers.––31st December 1900.

241,324 All Goods contained in Class 49. A. W. GAMAGE, LIMITED, 128, Holborn, London ; Athletic Outfitters. —16th October 1901.

243,120 Bats and Balls for Table Tennis or similar Games. MARY JANE WOOTTON and GEORGE WARD WOOTTON, trading as GEORGE WOOTTON & SON, 7, Tavern Street, Ipswich, Suffolk ; Games Manufacturers. —7th January 1902.

243,121 Bats and Balls for Table Tennis or similar Games. MARY JANE WOOTTON and GEORGE WARD WOOTTON, trading as GEORGE WOOTTON & SON, 7, Tavern Street, Ipswich, Suffolk ; Games Manufacturers. —7th January 1902.

243,181 Bats, Rackets and Goods of a like kind included in Class 49. GEO. G. BUSSEY & Co., Sports Manufactory, Rye Lane, Peckham, London, S.E. ; Manufacturers. ––9th January 1902.

243,310 A Table Tennis Bat. CHARLES GLADSTONE EAMES, 42, Westwell Road, Streatham Com-mon, London, S.W. ; Bank Registrar. —14th January 1902.

243,796 Games of all kinds and Sporting Articles not included in other Classes. THE BRITISH XY-LONITE COMPANY, LIMITED, Hale End, Chingford, London, N.E. ; Manufacturers. ––29th January 1902.

244,062 Bats used in the Game of Table Tennis and other kindred Games. FRANK BRYAN, 3, Bayer Street, London, E.C. ; Athletic Goods Manufacturer. —8th February 1902.

244,441 Table Tennis Appliances included in Class 49. EDWARD AUGUSTUS JEFFREYS, Thistle-wood, Coppice Road, Birmingham ; Engineer. —22nd February 1902.

244,443 A Table Tennis Bat or Racquet. POLLARD WILKINSON, 21, Ashmere Grove, Ipswich ; Schoolmaster. —24th February 1902. “The essential particular of the Trade Mark is the word ‘Ledia’, and I disclaim any right to the exclusive use of the added matter.”

246,258 A Contrivance mainly consisting of a Net, a Spring Roller, two Supports, and two Clips, for Use in the Game of Ping-Pong or Table Tennis. EDMUND GORMLY, 6, Wellington Avenue, Sefton Park, Liverpool, Lancashire ; Cycle Salesman. —13th

425,142 A Table Lawn Tennis game and Requisites included in Class 49 for playing the same. DAVID HENDRIK EDGAR KING, 13, Paternoster Row, London, E.C.4 ; Manu-facturer.––8th April, 1922.

245,950 Tobacco Pipes. W. H. CARRINGTON & Co., 34 & 36, Thomas Street, Manchester, Lancashire ; Tobacco Pipe Manufacturers.––30th April 1902.

It should be noted that for the period 1901-2, reflecting the huge popularity of the game at the time, Ping Pong was regis-tered by a number of different companies as a Trade Mark for a variety of non-sporting items, for example:


I n view of the immense popularity of table tennis in the early days, it is not

surprising that some of the manufactur-ers of games produced “spins-offs”. These variants were rarely (if ever) more than six-day wonders, not even qualify-ing for a full week, and are now hardly known at all, even among collectors.

The illustration (right) shows a page from a Slazenger catalogue of about 1906. This, mysteriously, makes a clear distinc-tion between THE GAME OF TABLE TENNIS and THE GAME OF WHIFF-WAFF (correctly spelt!), but we know that, at one stage, these were simply alternative titles for table tennis. It is also curious that Slazengers needed to save on the artwork by practically repeat-ing the image, with the man showing the same insouciant pose.

This leads to another mystery; I have recently acquired a vellum battledore clearly imprinted THE CAVENDISH BEST VELLUM WHIFF-WAFF, but ex-actly 22 inches and far too long for either table game. It will not fit in a Whiff-Waff box (only 19 inches).

How can all this be explained?

It is surprising that table badminton did not catch on—though I have two sets not made by Slazengers, one from about 1900 and one from the 1930s. It is a perfectly satisfactory game, limited only by the height of the ceiling.

And what, you may say, is “omin” at the bottom of the page? It is telegraphic code for “Please send me one of you sets of Whiff-Waff or Table Badminton”. Who needs a computer? One word for 13.

THE GAME OF POUCH BALL, AN IMPROVED TABLE TENNIS was devised by E.I. Horsman, USA, about 1900. Only one example is known to have survived and this is lacking the rules.

As shown in the illustration, there a six “pouches” in place of a net; these are made of lightweight cotton on wire frames suspended from a wooden rod. Three of these are open towards each player who, pre-sumably, could either hit the ball over the top, continuing the rally, or take the (not very severe) risk of trying to place it in a “pouch” so as to win the point outright. It is safe to say, with-out having tried it, that this cannot have been a satisfactory game.

Table Tennis Variants Part 1 By Gerald Gurney


Philatelic Pages Please send your contributions for

the philatelic pages to:

Anton Zwiebel Kerkweg 30

9439 PG WITTEVEEN The Netherlands

[email protected] Anton Zwiebel continues his regular contribution about table tennis stamps, post-marks and other items of philatelic interest.

F or starters I wish our new Editor Graham Trimming success in his

endeavours to take over from Gerald Gurney. He can only succeed if we (you, our readers and myself) give him the support he needs. Send in articles, questions, pictures, anything that has to do with collectibles con-nected to our sport.

Today I thank the fellow-collectors that sent in info to put these philatelic pages together. They are Mrs. Katharina Barth, Winfried Engel-brecht, Yao Zhenxu, Wolfgang Za-jitschek, Hans-Peter Trautmann, Luciano de Castris, Jan Nusteleyn, Bob Op de Beeck, Leo vd Sommen, and last, but by no means least Lutz Schoenfeld. Thank you for your as-sistance and please do go on helping out. Still no info out of France, Ja-pan, outer Europe (as I call the area around and including Russia), Aus-tralia, USA.

So, I cannot guarantee that these pages are complete, but I will give you the info I have at this moment.

I still owed you the postmark used to cancel the first-day issue of the Malaysian World Team Championships (left).

Denmark hosted in Aarhus the World Veterans’ Championships from 25th to 30th June 2001. This cancellation/postmark was struck in red on mail from the venue (right).

Pan-American Games held in Yerevan in 1999 and 2001. In both blocks (100% print) the up-per-left pictogram depicts table tennis.

Date of issue: please let me know.

Updates to previous articles:

To the cigarband I showed in the previous issue of this magazine I can add that the “Don Pablo” series was issued in Holland in 1977. The series comprised 24 Olympic sports amongst which was table tennis(!). All bands are said to be is-sued in the colours gold, red, green, orange and blue. Happy hunting.

The following dates of issue are now known: The Somalia series of 3 stamps : 12.12.2000 The 4 blocks Niger, each containing 1 stamp, butterflies etc. around them: 27.7.2000 The 8-stamps combi-sheet of San Marino: 17.4.2001 North Korea series Baseball/Basketball/Table Tennis: 7.7.2000

The Chinese Table Tennis Association pleasantly surprised with the issue of a colourful booklet containing 20 picture post-cards. The booklet is called “A Glorious Century” and subtitled “Chinese Table Tennis World Champions”. Because of the format of the cards and lack of space, I depict only two clippings out of one of these cards.


Republique de Guinee surprised by remembering the sixtieth anniversary of Lord Baden Powell’s death and threw an issue on the market that, I believe, will never see the inside of any Guinese post-office. Shown here at 50% is the 2-stamps block. There is also a 4-stamps block.

The scouting-emblems between and around the stamps are either in silver or in gold. The lot is, of course, both in perforated and imperforated.

I never knew that His Lordship had anything to do with table tennis. Did you?

Republic Srpska issued a sheetlet for the Olym-pics 2000 Sydney. Pictogram upper-row 2nd left is table tennis.

From Mongolia came this sheetlet. Left-middle row a table tennis bat is shown.

In the previous issue of this magazine I announced that Guiné Bissau also issued 4 blocks. Again meant to honour winners in Sydney. I do have seri-ous doubt about this “quote” as the men’s doubles depicts Legout/Eloi from France. Although I do respect these two gentlemen and admire their game, they were not the winners in Sydney. Blocks are shown at 50%.


Cancellations from China:

(top left) the Winter Cup Euro-Asia for Women un-der the auspices of the ITTF 14.8.2001

(top right) on the same date, 14.8.2001, the Jiangsu 15th Games.

(bottom left) 2nd Talent Cup Primary Schools held in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia 15-20.7.2001. Hand-stamp struck in black on mail from the venue.

(bottom right) special postmark for the occasion of the 21st Universiade (Student Games) held in Bei-jing 22.8-1.9.2001. Handstamp in red from the venue.

From Italy

3.6.2000 10th Table Tennis Finals Verona

9.9.2000 1st National Tour-nament Category 3A, men and women

19.5.2000 Italian National Veterans’ Championships

21.7.2000 44th Euro-pean Youth Champion-ships

All 4 postmarks hand-stamped in black on mail from the venue.

Above are depicted 5 Japanese postmarks in red. I hope to re-ceive information about these in the not too distant future and I will then pass that on to you.

Two cancellations from Croatia:

23.2.2000 is for the 9th Zagreb Sports and Nautical Fair, held there 23-27.2.2000.

23.3.2000 is the ITTF Pro Tour, held in Zagreb and struck on mail from the venue.


The Marshall Islands issued 26.6.2001 these 4 sports stamps. The combi-sheet comprises 4 of these 4-blocks, totalling 16 stamps.

In my opinion it is quite clear that these Marshall Islands have been a German Protectorate in the past.

Whether the differences with earlier German Sporthilfe stamps are significant enough not to call this issue plagiarism is not for me to decide.

The reason for their issue is not yet known to me.

Philatelic pages compiled by Anton Zwiebel

Membership List (contd.)

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Lutz Schönfeld Karl-Kellner-Str. 27/b, 30853 langenhagen, Germany Tel: +49 (0) 171 6418906 Email: [email protected] Web site: www.tt-domain.de

Interests: Philatelic items; pins; postcards; phonecards; trading cards. Sale/Exchange: online auction running from March 10 to April 10—see web site address.

Michael Thomson Craigievar, 1 Kinnoull Terrace, Perth, PH2 7DJ, Scotland. Tel: +44 (0) 1738 622052 Fax: +44 (0) 1738 445690 Email: [email protected] Interests: Origins and story of PP and TT and all items made by Jaques & Son and their association with Hamleys and Parker Brothers, USA. Sale/Exchange: Postcards; books (UK, USA and foreign); balls; boxed sets. Acquire: Jaques or Hamleys early catalogues and rule books or ephemera for any of their games but preferably for PP and TT; any Jaques games.

Solazzi Tonino Via Millefonti, 6 interno 5, 10126 Torino, Italy. Tel: +39 1166 34157 Interests: TT pins.

Hans-Peter Trautman Siegfriedstr. 17, D-64385 Reichelsheim, Germany. Interests: All postal cancellations & red meters including errors; old postcards written from famous TT players; stamps mint, booklets, artists and minister sheets. Sale/Exchange: Postal cancellations & red meters; stamps mint & used. Please send want list. Acquire: Ask for my wantlist of cancella tions & red meters.

Graham Trimming 17 Gwendale, Pinkneys Green, Maiden-head, Berkshire, SL6 6SH, England. Tel: +44 (0) 1628 636978 Email: [email protected] Web site: http://freespace.virgin.net/graham.trimming/index.htm Interests: All TT related items pre-1939 especially 1900s Sale/Exchange: Book "TT and how to play it" 1902 Ritchie/Harrison; book "Table Tennis" Symons 1935; book "A manual of PP" Schaad 1929. Acquire: Gossima 1891; early unusual bats; Beyreuth pottery; other early unusual items.

Margaret Walden c/o Carolyn McPherson, R.R. No. 1, Strat-ford, Ontario, N5A 6S2, Canada. Tel: +1 519 625 8896 Interests: Only interested in learning rather than collecting.

Roy Williams Robroy, 24 The Mall, Prestatyn, Denbighshire, LL79 7LS, Wales. Tel: +44 (0) 1745 888780 Interests: Stamp collecting. Acquire: ETTA magazines from 1930s; TT books; information etc of Welsh internationals, team results, programmes, etc.

Anton Zweibel Kerkweg 30, 9439 PG Witteveen, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 593 552788 Email: [email protected] Interests: Stamps; cancellations; post cards. Sale/Exchange: as above. Acquire: Cancellations; postcards.

Nets and Edges Graham’s First Exhibition Editor Graham Trimming gave the first public exhibition of his collection of table tennis antiques on January 30th. The occasion was the Hard-Bat Tournament run for its members by the Slough and District Table Tennis League and timed to coincide with the centenary of the first table tennis tourna-ment to be held in Slough (10th February 1902). The exhibi-tion created great interest amongst the small number of competitors, many of whom who no previous knowledge of table tennis a century ago.

Butterfly Table Tennis Report Keith Bowler has sent me pages from the Japanese version of Butterfly’s Table Tennis Report. It includes a chronology of table tennis from 1902 to 2001 (written in Japanese which is someway beyond my comprehension!) and photographs of equipment from the early days.

Richard Acquires 1924 Trophy Richard Scruton has written to say that, last year, he ac-quired a silver cup engraved “Whitby TT Club April Tourna-ment 1924”. It was donated by a local businessman, H.A. Lambert-Smith, of the time.

Rex’s auctions Renowned philatelic and ephemera expert Rex Haggett is planning a periodic auction of the remainder of his collection of paper memorabilia using email. Please contact Rex with your email details (if they are not included in the member-ship list on page 16). Rex’s address is: [email protected].

Collectors’ Society Web Site The Table Tennis Collectors’ Society now has a web site. Its address is: http://freespace.virgin.net/graham.trimming/TTCS/TTCSHome.htm

Online Auction by Lutz Lutz Schönfeld is holding another of his online auctions from 10th March to 10th April. The web site address is: www.tt-domain.de


Published by Graham Trimming on behalf of the Table Tennis Collectors’ Society, March 2002 17 Gwendale, Pinkneys Green, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 6SH, England Tel: +44 (0)1628 636978; email: [email protected] © Graham Trimming—no part of this publication may be reproduced without the prior consent of the publisher.

Membership List 2002 This is a list of members as at 28th February. There are a number of members from 2001 who have not re-newed and I am obviously hoping that they will do so in due course. Please use the contact details to liaise with other members, especially those with similar interests. Who knows, you many even find that elusive item that you crave in another member’s sales lists? In italics you will find details of members’ interests, items they have for sale or exchange and also items that they would like to acquire.

Rex Haggett 27 Meadow Close, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 9PJ, England. Tel: +44 (0) 1789 269352 Fax: +44 (0) 1789 269352 Email: [email protected] Web site: ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/RexHaggett Interests: Philately.

Chuck Hoey 605 Regina Drive, Elizabeth, PA, 15037, USA. Email: [email protected] Web site: http://tabletennismuseum.com Interests: Fine & unusual bats; pre-1960 WC programmes; Royal Bayreuth TT porcelain. Sale/Exchange: Tennis de Salon post cards @ US$1.00; many fine items avail able for trade. Acquire: Fosters Parlour Games 1890; Talto Tennis; Jaques ball pick-up device; painted portrait bats; fine/unusual bats; pre-1960 WC programmes; 1950 WC pin; early PP jewellery; cloth/web-covered balls.

Ray Hogg 100 School Road, Drayton, Norwich, Nor-folk, NR8 6EN, England. Tel: +44 (0) 1603 867160 Interests: Anything to do with TT.

Jan Kleeven Margrietstraat 63, 6373 NN Landgraaf, The Netherlands. Email: [email protected] Interests: TT on stamps; TT pins (national associations); TT pendants/flags (national associations) Sale/Exchange: TT stamps, pins.

Hans Kreischer Hollandiahof 126, 3119 ZD Schiedam, Holland. Tel: +31 1024 69140 Email: [email protected] Web site: www.ttmuseum.nl Interests: Stamps; FDC; postcards; sets; stickers; phonecards; books; tickets; pins etc. Sale/Exchange: Some books.

Kevin Lau 7544 N. Claremont Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60645, USA. Tel: +1 773 719 0860 Fax: +1 773 338 1831 Email: [email protected] Interests: Stamps; covers; postcards; phonecards; coins; pins; postal material. Sale/Exchange: as above Acquire: as above

Simeoni Luigi Via Ponte S, Pancrazio 2/A, 37133 Verona, Italy. Tel: +39 045 532033 Email: [email protected] Interests: TT balls.

Giampietro Mora Via S. Tomaso 20, 24121 Bergamo, Italy, . Tel: +39 035 241354 Acquire: Tutto sul tennistavolo

Rudolf Muller Bahnhofstr. 58, D-57250 Netphen, Ger-many. Tel: +49 (0) 2738 1461 Fax: +49 (0) 2738 1461 Email: [email protected] Interests: TT stamps, cancellations, let ters, errors, red meter marks (1930-1960).

Robert Op de Beeck Jan Frans Willemsstraat 66, B-2530 Boechout, Belgium. Tel: +32 (0) 3455 4159 Interests: All TT.

Jeong Kye Park PO Box 1028, Busan 600-610, South Korea. Email: [email protected] Interests: Football; TT; badminton; philat ely.

Robin Radford 16 St. Edmund Cr, Tawa, Wellington 6006, New Zealand. Tel: +64 (0) 4232 5672 Fax: +64 (0) 4232 9172 Email: [email protected] Web site: http://homepages.paradis.net.nz/RRadford/ Interests: TT cartoons and clip art; comic strips; old TT adverts. Sale/Exchange: as above Acquire: as above

Richard Scruton 9 Wycliffe Road, East Cowton, Northaller-ton, DL7 0DZ, England. Tel: +44 (0) 1325 378421 Email: [email protected] Interests: English Open Championships Sale/Exchange: Numerous ephemeral bits and pieces Acquire: Progammes (and results) for English Open Championships. 1970 European Youth Championships pro gramme

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David George No. 1 Kingshill Cottages, Coatbridge Road, Gartcosh, G69 8DS, Scotland. Tel: +44 (0) 1236 872350 Interests: TT badges (pins) & keyrings of clubs, leagues, counties, national associations, World, European, national champs etc; YMCA badges & memoribilia; dog, goat, poultry, breed club badges. Sale/Exchange: World/English Champs/other programmes; sets; net posts; bats; postal covers; magazines; books; cards; postcards; various items in porcelain/glass etc. Acquire: TT videos (VHS) of past greats World & European Champs, Olympics, veterans, youths, nationals & exhibitions by players etc.

David Good 710 N. Waverley, Dearborn, MI, 48128, USA. Tel: +1 313 278 5271 Email: [email protected] Interests: c. 1900 sets, equipment, books, ephemera, etc.; 1930s Donald Duck; "Ruddigore"; pre-1837 maps of Great Lakes; old master prints; poetry of William McGonagall & Julia A. Moore; N.P. Lovecraft. Sale/Exchange: Punch cartoons; verses on TT, golf, 1900-03. Acquire: c. 1900 items

Scott Gordon 419 Kentucky Street #C, Petaluma, CA, 94952, USA. Tel: +1 707 754 9366 Email: [email protected] Web site: www.hardbat.com Interests: Paddles (esp. early hardbats used in competitive play from 20s to 50s; film and early footage; books. Acquire: Any footage (film or other format); paddles used competitively such as MacCrossan, Raina, Hock, Barna, etc; books.

Gerald Gurney Guildhall Orchard, Mary Lane North, Great Bromley, Colchester, Essex, CO7 7TU, England. Tel: +44 (0) 1206 230330 Interests: All racket games, especially table tennis, tennis and badminton; all equipment, ephemera. Historian and author. Worldwide exhibitions. Also all swimming items. Sale/Exchange: Boxed sets; postcards; books; rackets. Acquire: Ball retriever; book "The Young est Son" by Ivor Montagu.

Günther Angenendt Langacker 10a, 44869 Bochum, Germany. Tel: +49 2327 77117 Fax: +49 2327 77117 Email: [email protected] Interests: All TT related items. Sale/Exchange: Pins; books; programmes. Acquire: Pin WC 1936; pre-war WC programmes.

Keith Bowler 14 Ewell Street, Balmain, NSW 2041, Australia. Tel: +61 2980 4128

Andre Demeure Place de Mai, 10, B-1200 Brussels, Bel-gium. Tel: +32 (0) 2770 5529 Email: [email protected] Interests: Cancellations, red meter, postal stationeries, stamps (perforated, imperforated, colour proof, artist sheet; postcards; phonecards. Sale/Exchange: as above Acquire: as above

Jean Devys La Petit Vigne, 20 Rue Edgar Quinet, 59100 Roubaix, France. Tel: +33 3208 28444 Fax: +33 3205 50849 Interests: Only TT. Sale/Exchange: many. Acquire: many.

Axel Dickhaus Atzlenbacher Str. 88, D-51381 Leverkusen, Germany. Tel: +49 (0) 2171 32108 Fax: +49 (0) 2171 731478 Email: [email protected] Interests: TT balls; TT phonecards. Sale/Exchange: TT balls.

Alan Duke 2 Shapwick Close, Swindon, Wilts, SN3 3RQ, England. Tel: +44 (0) 1793 531234 Email: [email protected]

Interests: TT music; photo record of collectibles, etc.

Sergio Durrazzano Via Girardini 8, 33100 Udine, Italy. Tel: +39 0432 21105 Fax: +39 0432 21105 Email: [email protected] Interests: Stamps and books.

Winfried Engelbrecht Virgiliastr. 21, D-45131 Essen, Germany. Tel: +49 2017 86795

Romualdas Franckaitis Knygnesiu 8, 5150 Joniskis, Lithuania.


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