JJH's 1890s Handmade Wooden Pinpong Paddle with Inlay antique folded paper design This one was filed half-way

This one was filed half-way through from one direction

and clearly grandma used it for lots of string over many many years

Quite an early punch paper embroidery

and I find the wickerwork on it just lovely

And as penguins are rather Art Deco looking to begin with

JJH's 1890s Handmade Wooden Pinpong Paddle with Inlay antique folded paper design This one was filed half-wayThis 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