Boxwood Sports Equipment and Memorabilia

Antique Slazenger 'Corbally' Flat Bottom Croquet Mallet. A fine usable flat bottom croquet mallet by Slazenger with brass plate to the bottom with brass r...

Vintage eight mallet croquet set Asser & Sherwin. A good quality Victorian eight-mallet croquet on turned stand. The mallet heads are marked 'Asser & Sherwin, London". The heads are...

Vintage F.H. Ayres Croquet Set. A good quality Ayres croquet set in original pine box with four boxwood mallets with guide lines on the tops of the heads and octagonal handles with ...

Vintage A.W. Gamage Ltd. Croquet Set. A high quality A.W. Gamage Ltd, London, croquet set in its original polished pine box. The set comes with four box wood croquet mallets with eb...

Vintage brass bound Jaques croquet mallet. A good square head, brass bound boxwood croquet mallet by Jaques. The square head with line guide, attached to a sprung hickory handle w...

Good size and stylish set of chess pieces. For the lovers of the game of chess we present these handcrafted pieces from the early 20th century. The classical manner in which these ...

Vintage F. H. Ayres croquet set. A nice quality F. H. Ayres croquet set in its original polished pine box and with an original Ayres croquet stand. The box has a decorative paper tr...

A good croquet set in polished pine box with two carry handles. The set comes with four box wood croquet mallets with octagonal ash handles with cord grip (which helps a player 'feel...

A good quality Victorian eight-mallet croquet set in original pine box and on a round mahogany stand, all the mallet heads are marked 'SLAZENGER, LONDON'. The heads are made from box...

Vintage boxed croquet set. A good vintage croquet set in a later polished pine box with two carry handles that is stamped 'Jaques' and has a Jacques paper label on the inside of the lid. The set comes with four box wood croquet mallets with octagonal ash handles (which helps a player 'feel' the alignment of the mallet in play). To complete the set there are four balls in the standard croquet colours, six bent metal hoops, two new posts (the coloured bands indicating the order of play). The boxwood mallets are stamped 'Benetfink, London'. Benetfink described themselves as 'furnishing ironmongers' and from 1845-1907 they had a large store on Cheapside in London. They sold a very large range of metalware items for the home and claimed in an advert in 1852 that they could furnish an eight-roomed house for £5. As well as selling optical lanterns, chandeliers and lamps they also had a sports department offering bicycles and sports attire. By 1900 they were selling motorcycles as well motoring accessories. Gamages (also a department store) took over Benetfink and Co...

Vintage croquet set in pine box. A four mallet croquet set on a mahogany stand and with a polished pine box. Three of the mallets are stamped 'A & N.C...

F.H. Ayres Croquet Mallet. A good vintage dual faced croquet mallet by F.H. Ayres. The handle is made of ash and is fitted to a boxwood head. The head ...