Ormond Club

British Precision, German Exclusivity

Manuf.: Ormond

Model The Club

Spec.: Solid wood, transitional flat top face

Year: 1896

(documented or estimated)

Background facts:

Ormond was one of the oldest British companies to make tennis racquets. It was known by the quality of its products. The Club was made with the head shape was applied by Ayres and Ormond from the mid 1880s, first. The exhibit comes with the standard stringing technique with colored cross strings. A similar Ormond Club is displayed in the "Book of Tennis Rackets" by Siegfried Kuebler.

We received the racquet from Jonathan Schmitz, Leipzig. Jonathan "My wife and I bought an old house in Leipzig, Germany, that still had a lot of legacies. Here, we found 2 tennis racquets, amongst them this one (Comm: The other one was the "Ekert Club" racquet). The racquets were owned by the previous owner Paul Osterloh or his son Dr. Alfred Osterloh who were botanists/zoologists and produced biological teaching models. As part of this activity, they traveled internationally to trade fairs and exhibitions before the Turn of the century. The tennis racquets have been brought back from one of these businesses.