Vintage Tennis Fridays - Continental Tennis Balls

We like to go vintage on Fridays, as you may know. I came across some great sources for really vintage tennis stuff, so we're going to go waaayyy back the next few weeks. The image above is a postcard for Continental Tennis Balls circa 1990s, from Germany. What's interesting to me is that the product takes a back seat, this is more of the image ad one might see today, with the lifestyle and activity taking the front seat and the product itself being a secondary, albeit aspirational, player.

We couldn't find much more about Continental Tennis Balls, except this other postcard which you can buy at Edwardian Delights for $35. According to the site, it was done by the Caoutchouc und Gutta-Percha Co of Hannover, Germany. It features a group of tennis players, one of whom knock the top hat off a passing gent. Again, less about the product, more about the story they are wrapping around the product.

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