JJH's 1890s Handmade Wooden Pinpong Paddle with Inlay antique folded paper design with gorgeous leather swat

with gorgeous leather swat

just extraordinarily beautiful

1 15/16" across at lip

but this one is signed (in Deming's writing)

JJH's 1890s Handmade Wooden Pinpong Paddle with Inlay antique folded paper design with gorgeous leather swatThis charmer of a handmade ping pong paddle came with a note attached: "JJH was my great uncle, b. 1870 d. 1912, and this was handmade by him." Sadly, JJH did not live long enough to play ping pong into his old age, but one imagines that he must have been pretty serious about it in his youth or middle age to invest so much love and labor into his paddle! With inlaid wood for the very excellent monogram and two rings of dashes encircling it, seeming to