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Tre behållare i form av tennisbollar i miniatyr som innehåller whisky, i obruten originalförpackning. Av märket Advanced. På förpackningens framsida texten: "ADVANTAGE SCOTCH WHISKEY TENNIS BALL MINIATURES", på sidorna texten "5 YEARS OLD ADVANTAGE". På förpackningens baksida finns en streckkod och texten: "HISTORY OF WIMBLEDON '100 Years of Wimbledon," a publication authorised by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club and written by Lance Tingay provides the official and authoritative history of The Lawn Tennis Championships. Extracts providing some detail and statistics taken from official Club history are: Croquet, rackets and tennis (the ancient and royal game) were all associated in greater and less degree, with the first Lawn Tennis Championships Meeting (1877). Disciples of these games were its founders; they swaddled the then infant game of lawn tennis, took it out of its public airing and offered it food and shelter in a cold and critical world. The All England Croquet Club, founded in 1868, discovered after a precarious life of seven years that croquet has its limitations; the exchequer was almost empty. The sacred lawns at Worpole Road, Wimbledon, had been invaded by a few members who preferred to hit a moving ball with a racket than to tap a stationary ball with a mallet. The ball had to be specially made for this new game. They had to be a certain weight and sewn in a particular way. Their white cloth covers had to be sewn in a particular way. Their white cloth covers had to be sewn on like to cloth of the real (royal or court) tennis ball and not with cross stiches. The thread had to be unbleached carpet thread; the dyed thread being used by certain makers 'on account of prettiness', was barred. Fifteen dozen balls were used for this championship meeting and there was 'not a bad one among them.' This carton contains 3 x 50ml Miniatures of Blended Scotch Whisky matured at least 5 years. 43 % Vol. 86° Proof U.S. Bottled in U.K. Product of Scotland. OLD ST. ANDREWS LTD. LONDON & EDINBURGH."