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The Horsman Maker model represents an early stage of American lawn-tennis production. The company was founded by Edward Imeson Horsman around 1865 and originally manufactured toys before expanding into sporting goods. During this first phase, racquets were not assigned individual product names. Frames left the workshop with the simple imprint Horsman Maker , a practice that matched contemporary branding habits and reflected the attempt to establish a national presence in a ma

Walter Clopton Wingfield - The Tennis Founder For many years it was considered lost. It was a stroke of luck that led to its rediscovery a few years ago in France - the racquet of the founder of today`s game of tennis, Walter Clopton Wingfield . The exceptional find shows how racquets moved from Real to Lawn Tennis.  The Wingfield, 1876 ​A brief historical review. Until 1874, tennis was mainly practiced in courtyards or indoor spaces.  Imported from France , the Britisch call