Ping 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

KOAN-KONG (or Koang-Yu) the God of War, with his son KOAN-PING, and his faithful bodyguard TCHEOU-TSANG

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

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

Battle of Ping-Yang, 1894. Engraving
First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895). Battle of Ping-Yang (September 15, 1894). The Japanese take a Chinese position. Colored engraving

Battle of Ping-Yang, 1894. Engraving. Colored
First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895). Battle of Ping-Yang (September 15, 1894). The Japanese take a Chinese position. Engraving. Colored

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

Raw levies for the Chinese army, 1894
First Sino-Japanese War (1st August 1894 17th April 1895). Raw levies for the Chinese army. The only reserve force is that of the Ying Ping or Chinese militia

Chinese Labour Corps leaving for China after WW1
Yi-Loo-Ping-An (Good-bye and peaceful travel): the Rev. J. Webster O. C. Chinese Section, British Y.M.C.A. saying farewell to each man of the Chinese Labour Corps as they departed back for China

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

PING Chinese diplomat in Paris Date: circa 1866

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

Metropolitan Police group at the time of the Dock Strike
Metropolitan Police N Division, a group photograph at the time of the Dock Strike, with a ship called the Ping Suey in the background. Date: 1912

Lady Precious Stream theatre production
Clifford Bartlett as Hsieh Ping-Kuei and Carol Coombe as Lady Precious Stream, in the traditional Chinese play, Lady Precious Stream, by S. I. Hsiung. Date: 1935

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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