World Historical Medals

Sale 113    22–25 Nov 2016   Dixson Room, State Library of NSW   Sydney

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Lot 3802    Session 14 (4.30pm Thursday 24 November) Leslie J Carlisle C    World Historical Medals

Estimate $100
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $110

GERMANY, Frankfurter Tennis Klub 1914, 29 Juli 1930, in silvered bronze (45x72mm), by Jorgum & Tretz, obverse, male tennis player serving from baseline, reverse, plain, unnamed. In a case, toned, good very fine.

With a handwritten note indicating, 'Awarded to Jack Crawford', and marked Les Carlisle 1979.

Jack Crawford was an Australian tennis player who was world number 1 in 1933. He won the Australian Junior Championship in 1926-1929, the Australian Open in 1931, 1932 and 1935. In 1976 he was awarded an OBE for his services to sport, was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1979 and the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame in 1997.

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