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Vintage 1970's rare DONNAY Continental wooden racket with Cover
Estimated price for orientation: 36 $
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Description Brand: Donnay Country/Region of Manufacture: Belgium Model: Continental Grip Size: 4 1/2”
This prestigious and rare DONNAY Continental bearing Bjorn Borg's autograph/signature logo on both sides of the shaft comes with an original DONNAY cover • frame is in fine condition only showing wear on top • Original leather grip is in great display condition • Wrappings on shaft and shoulders are pristine
Donnay Sporting Goods, Belgium – A Brief History compiled in 1994 by Kurt Klemmer, former Donnay representative of Donnay in the 1960’s: First founded as a cooperative society of carpenters and cabinet makers by the father of Andre and Emile Donnay at the end of the1920’s. In their workshop they bent wood for coaches and furniture, made yokes, spare parts for horse carts and shaft bars, but their main business consisted of making all kinds of wooden goods which were needed in the former Belgian colony “Congo”. At the end of WWII they became active in producing shuttle-cock racquets on an industrial basis for this growing sport (badminton) and formed a company called the “Donnay Sporting Goods Company”. They extended to produce tennis rackets, hockey sticks and ice hockey sticks. Still expanding, Donnay opened a new factory for skis in a small village in the French Ardennes, where they soon made rackets and ping-pong tables for the French market. At their main production plant in Belgium they mainly produced rackets for Wilson Sporting Goods Company, well known in the USA. So the famous racket models Jack Kramer and Tony Trabert came from Donnay. The company became quite successful and and when Donnay signed Bjorn Borg of Sweden to use their rackets a phenomenal success story started and millions of rackets carrying Bjorn Borg’s name were sold. However, with the waning of the Borg era, Donnay’s sales fell sharply. Donnay went into receivership in the early 1980’s. Tapie, the French financial manager who later tried to save Adidas, tried in vain to save Donnay.
Description
| Brand: | Donnay | Country/Region of Manufacture: | Belgium |
| Model: | Continental | Grip Size: | 4 1/2” |
This prestigious and rare DONNAY Continental bearing Bjorn Borg's autograph/signature logo on both sides of the shaft comes with an original DONNAY cover • frame is in fine condition only showing wear on top • Original leather grip is in great display condition • Wrappings on shaft and shoulders are pristine
Donnay Sporting Goods, Belgium – A Brief History compiled in 1994 by Kurt Klemmer, former Donnay representative of Donnay in the 1960’s: First founded as a cooperative society of carpenters and cabinet makers by the father of Andre and Emile Donnay at the end of the1920’s. In their workshop they bent wood for coaches and furniture, made yokes, spare parts for horse carts and shaft bars, but their main business consisted of making all kinds of wooden goods which were needed in the former Belgian colony “Congo”. At the end of WWII they became active in producing shuttle-cock racquets on an industrial basis for this growing sport (badminton) and formed a company called the “Donnay Sporting Goods Company”. They extended to produce tennis rackets, hockey sticks and ice hockey sticks. Still expanding, Donnay opened a new factory for skis in a small village in the French Ardennes, where they soon made rackets and ping-pong tables for the French market. At their main production plant in Belgium they mainly produced rackets for Wilson Sporting Goods Company, well known in the USA. So the famous racket models Jack Kramer and Tony Trabert came from Donnay. The company became quite successful and and when Donnay signed Bjorn Borg of Sweden to use their rackets a phenomenal success story started and millions of rackets carrying Bjorn Borg’s name were sold. However, with the waning of the Borg era, Donnay’s sales fell sharply. Donnay went into receivership in the early 1980’s. Tapie, the French financial manager who later tried to save Adidas, tried in vain to save Donnay.
Donnay Sporting Goods, Belgium – A Brief History compiled in 1994 by Kurt Klemmer, former Donnay representative of Donnay in the 1960’s: First founded as a cooperative society of carpenters and cabinet makers by the father of Andre and Emile Donnay at the end of the1920’s. In their workshop they bent wood for coaches and furniture, made yokes, spare parts for horse carts and shaft bars, but their main business consisted of making all kinds of wooden goods which were needed in the former Belgian colony “Congo”. At the end of WWII they became active in producing shuttle-cock racquets on an industrial basis for this growing sport (badminton) and formed a company called the “Donnay Sporting Goods Company”. They extended to produce tennis rackets, hockey sticks and ice hockey sticks. Still expanding, Donnay opened a new factory for skis in a small village in the French Ardennes, where they soon made rackets and ping-pong tables for the French market. At their main production plant in Belgium they mainly produced rackets for Wilson Sporting Goods Company, well known in the USA. So the famous racket models Jack Kramer and Tony Trabert came from Donnay. The company became quite successful and and when Donnay signed Bjorn Borg of Sweden to use their rackets a phenomenal success story started and millions of rackets carrying Bjorn Borg’s name were sold. However, with the waning of the Borg era, Donnay’s sales fell sharply. Donnay went into receivership in the early 1980’s. Tapie, the French financial manager who later tried to save Adidas, tried in vain to save Donnay.