Gerald - ITTF

Nets and Edges
Graham’s First Exhibition
Editor Graham Trimming gave the first public exhibition of
his collection of table tennis antiques on January 30th. The
occasion was the Hard-Bat Tournament run for its members
by the Slough and District Table Tennis League and timed to
coincide with the centenary of the first table tennis tournament
to be held in Slough (10th February 1902). The exhibition
created great interest amongst the small number of
competitors, many of whom who no previous knowledge of
table tennis a century ago.
Butterfly Table Tennis Report
Keith Bowler has sent me pages from the Japanese version
of Butterfly’s Table Tennis Report. It includes a chronology
of table tennis from 1902 to 2001 (written in Japanese which
is someway beyond my comprehension!) and photographs
of equipment from the early days.
Richard Acquires 1924 Trophy
Richard Scruton has written to say that, last year, he acquired
a silver cup engraved “Whitby TT Club April Tournament
1924”. It was donated by a local businessman, H.A.
Lambert-Smith, of the time.
Rex’s auctions
Renowned philatelic and ephemera expert Rex Haggett is
planning a periodic auction of the remainder of his collection
of paper memorabilia using email. Please contact Rex with
your email details (if they are not included in the membership
list on page 16). Rex’s address is: rex@stratford94.
fsnet.co.uk.
Collectors’ Society Web Site
The Table Tennis Collectors’ Society now has a web site.
Its address is: http://freespace.virgin.net/graham.trimming/
TTCS/TTCSHome.htm
Online Auction by Lutz
Lutz Schönfeld is holding another of his online auctions from
10th March to 10th April. The web site address is:
www.tt-domain.de
The Marshall Islands issued 26.6.2001 these 4 sports stamps. The
combi-sheet comprises 4 of these 4-blocks, totalling 16 stamps.
In my opinion it is quite clear that these Marshall Islands have been a
German Protectorate in the past.
Whether the differences with earlier German Sporthilfe stamps are
significant enough not to call this issue plagiarism is not for me to
decide.
The reason for their issue is not yet known to me.
Philatelic pages compiled by Anton Zwiebel
Membership List (contd.)
(Continued from page 16)
Lutz Schönfeld
Karl-Kellner-Str. 27/b, 30853 langenhagen,
Germany
Tel: +49 (0) 171 6418906
Email: webmaster@tt-domain.de
Web site: www.tt-domain.de
Interests: Philatelic items; pins; postcards;
phonecards; trading cards.
Sale/Exchange: online auction running
from March 10 to April 10—see web site
address.
Michael Thomson
Craigievar, 1 Kinnoull Terrace, Perth, PH2
7DJ, Scotland.
Tel: +44 (0) 1738 622052
Fax: +44 (0) 1738 445690
Email: msm_thomson@yahoo.co.uk
Interests: Origins and story of PP and TT
and all items made by Jaques & Son and
their association with Hamleys and Parker
Brothers, USA.
Sale/Exchange: Postcards; books (UK,
USA and foreign); balls; boxed sets.
Acquire: Jaques or Hamleys early
catalogues and rule books or ephemera
for any of their games but preferably for
PP and TT; any Jaques games.
Solazzi Tonino
Via Millefonti, 6 interno 5, 10126 Torino,
Italy.
Tel: +39 1166 34157
Interests: TT pins.
Hans-Peter Trautman
Siegfriedstr. 17, D-64385 Reichelsheim,
Germany.
Interests: All postal cancellations & red
meters including errors; old postcards
written from famous TT players; stamps
mint, booklets, artists and minister sheets.
Sale/Exchange: Postal cancellations & red
meters; stamps mint & used. Please send
want list.
Acquire: Ask for my wantlist of cancella
tions & red meters.
Graham Trimming
17 Gwendale, Pinkneys Green, Maidenhead,
Berkshire, SL6 6SH, England.
Tel: +44 (0) 1628 636978
Email: graham.trimming@virgin.net
Web site: http://freespace.virgin.net/graham.
trimming/index.htm
Interests: All TT related items pre-1939
especially 1900s
Sale/Exchange: Book "TT and how to play
it" 1902 Ritchie/Harrison; book "Table
Tennis" Symons 1935; book "A manual of
PP" Schaad 1929.
Acquire: Gossima 1891; early unusual
bats; Beyreuth pottery; other early unusual
items.
Margaret Walden
c/o Carolyn McPherson, R.R. No. 1, Stratford,
Ontario, N5A 6S2, Canada.
Tel: +1 519 625 8896
Interests: Only interested in learning rather
than collecting.
Roy Williams
Robroy, 24 The Mall, Prestatyn,
Denbighshire, LL79 7LS, Wales.
Tel: +44 (0) 1745 888780
Interests: Stamp collecting.
Acquire: ETTA magazines from 1930s; TT
books; information etc of Welsh
internationals, team results, programmes,
etc.
Anton Zweibel
Kerkweg 30, 9439 PG Witteveen, The
Netherlands.
Tel: +31 593 552788
Email: azet.tt@wanadoo.nl
Interests: Stamps; cancellations; post
cards.
Sale/Exchange: as above.
Acquire: Cancellations; postcards.
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