Tennis / Borotra / Dorfman / Hermann-Paul / Roland Garros-Wi - Lot 227

Tennis / Borotra / Dorfman / Hermann-Paul / Roland Garros-Wimbledon / Ocean Liner Set of 7 silver-based prints, sketches, and cards, including: - MONG, “The Smash by Lenglen’s Beautiful Student.” Original pencil drawing, signed and dated July 9, 1922. 15 x 10 cm - Business card of Jean BOROTRA (1898–1994) bearing the handwritten note “With my sincere thanks” and the signature of “The Leaping Basque.” Circa 1930. 6 x 8.5 cm. - Postcard “12—Jack Crawford and Patterson (Australia),” illustration based on “Le Sourd” - Silver print from Studio Partridge (Sudbury), circa 1890. Holding rackets, two players pose in the studio. 16.5 x 10.5 cm. - Silver print of an amateur photograph taken during the final of the Châtaigneraie tournament, Enghien, July 2–3, 1966. Umpire Dorfman stands between the two finalists; possibly Georges Goven on the left. 7.5 x 10.5 cm (significant wear) - 2 illustrated postcards from the Belle Époque, showing sports continuing aboard ocean liners: tennis-volley circa 1930 (Gle Transatlantique Company), and the other depicting cricket on a PO ship circa 1900