US Patent No. 455632 Tennis Racket by C Mailings July 12 1891 Lumen_Field_Poster The lithograph reads as both

The lithograph reads as both deathbed portrait and quiet argument for sainthood

Alfred Tennyson

its orbital geometry traced with the reverent precision of a draftsman who suspected Saturn's bands were divine punctuation

The Giants' fadeaway king lent his college-bred respectability to Tuxedo's tin

US Patent No. 455632 Tennis Racket by C Mailings July 12 1891 Lumen_Field_Poster The lithograph reads as bothUs Patent No. 455632 Tennis Racket by C Mailings July 12 1891 C. Mailings filed this drawing in the summer of 1891, when lawn tennis was still a flannel and grass affair on club courts, and the schematic obsesses over the throat and stringing pattern with the precision of a man who knew a racket's tension was its temperament. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for