Schulz’s personally-owned and -used Samsonite ActionPak tennis bag constructed of beige canvas and blue faux-leather material, approximately 21″ in length, prominently signed on the side in felt tip, “Charles M. Schulz.” An original Thomas Cook travel agency tag is included, filled out by Schultz, “C. Schultz, 3699 Montecito Ave, Santa Rosa, Cal.” A pin depicting Snoopy hitting a tennis ball is also attached to the bag. In overall very good condition, with moderate scattered soiling and wear to bag, and staining to travel tag. Accompanied by a letter of provenance from the original recipient, in part: “This was given to me in the mid 1970s by Sparky when I was visiting his stepson Brooke at the Schultz home…his wife Jean…was an avid tennis player…Sparky had tennis courts built next to his ice rink for her enjoyment, and would play tennis with her…He has a habit of signing all of his bags and luggage so he could locate them quickly at airports…I happened to be visiting at his house one afternoon and he came home with a new tennis bag. He moved his equipment from this bag to his new one, then tossed the old bag to me and said, ‘Keep this, it ought to be worth something some day.’” A unique item clearly well-used by the cartoonist whose affinity for tennis can be see in his work—he provided 50 tennis-themed Snoopy illustrations for Billie Jean King’s 1978 Tennis Love book, and released one of his own entitled Snoopy’s Tennis Book in 1979. RR Auction COA.
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