Condition

9

10: New

9: Mint

8: Excellent

7: Good

6: Fair

5: Average

4: Below Average

3: Poor

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Rarity

8

10: Impossibly rare

9: Extremely rare

8: Hard to find

7: Fairly rare

6: Uncommon

5: Common

<4: Big Seller

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About Maxima

Maxima was a successful brand in Italy but quite rare outside of Italy. The history is that in 1918, the Billour brothers’ furniture factory in Bordighera converted to the production of rackets for the English (about 3,000) residing on the Riviera and members of the Bordighera Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club, the oldest club in Italy created in 1878, four years after the major Wingfield patented the new game of tennis. In 1920 the Billour only produced rackets under the name of S.I.R.T (Italian Tennis Racket Company), also exported to England for their excellent quality. In 1926, two good tennis players, Pier Giovanni Pietra (Italian) and George Prouse (New Zealander), became representatives of Dunlop after completing their studies, an English brand that produced rackets and tennis balls. They founded “Davis”: Dunlop Agency Italy Sports Sales to import Dunlop products from England. On October 11, 1935, the League of Nations established an embargo that no longer allowed commercial exchanges between Italy and England. So Pietra and Prouse found themselves with the opposite problem of the Billour. The two players could no longer import Dunlop English products and the Billour brothers could no longer sell their Sirt in England. So they founded Maxima a now famous italian brand was born, produced by Sirt. “For almost half a century, the Maxima Tournament was the best-selling racket in our country and adopted by all the great Italian champions. In 1978, Maxima sold 200,000 rackets, of which 90,000 were ‘Maxima Tournament’,” Other models were the Scudetto, this Hurricane, Suprema, shielf, Torneo, Aurea, Conquest, JUVENTUS, Scudetto and others.

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