Pong Collection

Playing Table Tennis - Edwardian - Etiquette
I am not sure whether it is my turn. (to write the postcard or to serve!!) A smart Gentleman makes a courteous enquiry to his glamorous young female table tennis companion. Date: circa 1904

Garden Ping Pong, 1901
An advertisement for Hamleys ping pong for the garden

Girl Plays Ping Pong
A girl in a flowing pink dress plays ping pong

Turandot Liebig 2
Ping, Pang and Pong, three courtiers

Strong Cheese repels diner and waiter
One of the Market Reports illustrated postcard series. Cheese: " Supply much stronger, but very little demand." This commodities phrasiology is illustrated by a waiter struggling to cope

Ping Pong at Denham Court
A game of ping pong (table tennis) in progress inside Denham Court, Denham, Buckinghamshire. Date: circa 1904

Skating on a frozen Whitestone Pond, Hampstead Heath, London. Date: 1933

Comic postcard, Father and son watch golfers Date: 20th century

Five table tennis players, three posing with their trophies. Date: c. 1935
Five table tennis players, three posing with their trophies. Date: c.1935

Lawson Wood - Pre-War Gran pop?
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood showing a small monkey and the famous orang utan character called Granpop eating boiled eggs

Bounce
Club Champion (to Jones, who has consented to take the place of absent player): " This is your first experience of serious play, I suppose?" Jones: " Well... not exactly

Misfitz Dolls - Ping-Pong. early 20th century

Communist China - workers playing table tennis
Workers playing and watching a game of table tennis during the Cultural Revolution era in Communist China. circa 1970

Suffragette Votes for Women Doll
A suffragette doll wearing a brown dress and hat, holding a Votes for Women placard. The head of the doll is made from a ping pong ball with a hand painted face

Ping Pong in Fairyland
Fairies playing ping pong on a mushroom. Date: 1902

Yenan Workers Club
The Workers Club at Yenan (Yennan, Yan an) in the Shaanxi province of China. Yenan became the centre of the Chinese communist revolution

Schoolboy suggest a game of ping pong to W G Grace
" I should like to play you at ping pong" !! A young schoolboy suggests a sensible choice of sporting contest when faced with the colossus of the cricketing world, Dr W G Grace

The Discomforts of the carriage - a young man suffers the result of Nanny attentiveness to Babys botty needs!!!

Holiday Camp, Corton
The interior of a canteen at an unnamed holiday camp in Corton

Ping Pong in Fashion
Ping-pong becomes the fashionable game of the day - but will its popularity last ?

Ready to Wear Suit 1938
A single-breasted, blue pinstripe suit with lounging jacket from the ready-to-wear department of Burton menswear. Date: 1938

Fancy Dress Outfit
The Ping Pong Girl : A novel fancy dress costume, a gay look for January parties. Though striking in effect, it can quite easily be made from cheap materials

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