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Jefferies

Career Manufacturer

Biography Based in Woolwich London, one of the first companies to make this sort of tennis racquet [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 27/04/2007]

Biography References http://www.allposters.com/-sp/A-Royal-Lawn-Tennis-Set-for-4-Players-Made-by-Jefferies-Woolwich-circa-1875-Posters_i1367520_.htm / http://www.sol.co.uk/n/nwts/Shop.htm

County London [Greater]

Relationship Maker

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1910

Date made around circa 1870

Dates active Unknown circa 1870-1875

Donated around 1910

English collections Lawn tennis wood racquets

Institution Yes

Oxford based No

English collection size 2

Connections Edward Burnett Tylor

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