Racket Bancroft

This Racquet has the Image of The Tennis Center at the Throat. Bancroft started in 1882 in Pawtucket, R.I., and was one of the biggest producers of wood racquets right up until the dawn of metal and graphite frames in the 1970s.
At that point, like everyone else, Bancroft shifted gears and started making composite frames of graphite, metal and fiberglass, though by the mid-1980s Bancroft fell off the tennis map. (No one seems to know what exactly happened to the company.

Paying homage to tennis greats, collectors concentrate on racquets associated with specific players’ Grand Slam victories, immortalizing the winning styles of the legends.