PRESS
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- BADMINTON RACKET PRESS
- Date Range From
- 1920
- Date Range To
- 1930
- Materials
- WOOD, STEEL
- Catalogue Number
- P19960055003
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- BADMINTON RACKET PRESS
- Date Range From
- 1920
- Date Range To
- 1930
- Materials
- WOOD, STEEL
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 3.6
- Length
- 23.6
- Width
- 18.5
- Description
- 2 WOOD FRAMES ARE CONNECTED AT EACH CORNER BY LONG METAL SCREW THAT IS INSERTED THROUGH THE BOTTOM FRAME THEN A METAL SPRING IS POSITIONED BETWEEN THE FRAMES, WITH A WING NUT ON THE END OF THE SCREW MEANT TO TIGHTEN OR LOOSEN THE TENSION ON A RACKET. IN ONE CORNER THE SCREW IS ATTACHED TO A HINGE AND CAN SWING OPEN TO ALLOW THE RACKET TO BE INSERTED INTO THE PRESS. MARKED ON THE BOTTOM AND TOP OF THE PRESS IN BLUE INK ARE THE INITIALS "H.M.D". TOP HAS BLACK INK LABELLING WHICH IS VERY FADED. "THE NIAGARA", AND MORE THAT IS DIFFICULT TO READ. SCREW IS MISSING IN ONE CORNER AND THE CORNER WITH HINGED BOLT TO INSERT RACKET IS MISSING WINGNUT.
- Subjects
- SPORTS EQUIPMENT
- Historical Association
- SPORTS
- History
- BELONGED TO DONOR'S DECEASED HUSBAND, HUGH M. DICKSON JR. THE DICKSON'S FARMED AT WARNER. ACCORDING TO DONOR TENNIS WAS A POPULAR SPORT IN WARNER DURING THE EARLY TWENTIES, WITH TWO COURTS THAT WERE HARD- SURFACED IN 1937. SEE P19960055001-GA FOR MORE HISTORY.
- Catalogue Number
- P19960055003
- Acquisition Date
- 1996-07
- Collection
- Museum
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