1942 Wilson Sporting Goods Company Tennis Equipment Catalog WWII Badminton

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This is a Good+ Condition RARE (I can't find another copy for sale anywhere in the World at time of first listing)
1942 Wilson Sporting Goods Company Tennis Equipment Catalog during WWII and including Badminton.
The expert tennis players in this catalog endorsing various Wilson products are Ellsworth Vines, Don Budge, Alice Marble, Eleanor Tennant, Bruce Barnes and Mary Hardwick.  It also states on the inside cover that due to material shortages and the inability to secure materials from overseas "in these times", price and availability will vary widely and there are no guarantees of either price or product availability until an order is actually placed.
The revolutionary Vines Racket is in this catalog, but as this is several years after it was released, it is not the premier racket at that time.  The Wilson Squire with their exclusive Strata-Bow construction is their premier racket at that time, with a number of them released in signed issues by the players named above.
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