old Stiga Ulf Tickan Carlsson /the same like stiga alser with tickan carlsson handl/

“Tickan” was 9 years old 1970 so it’s probably unlikely that it’s from the 70ies. Those blades were quite popular in the mid to late 80ies.

Good condition? I think it is broken. I can see there is a crack.

nice offensive wood...what is the weight and thickness of the blade...it does look like it has a stress hair crack line in the neck though

erm hat gesprochen !! erm will know. He has seen enough of those.

jackass22 said:

I sell old stiga all blade from 70 year in very good condition:
Stiga Ulf Tickan Carlsson/is the same like stiga alser with handle Ulf Tickan Carlsson/ , Made in Tranas Sweden - 240 dollars
I have paypal, shipping worldwide-10 dollar.
PM or email [email protected]

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Dude, I just can't help myself, but something about this blade looks pretty fishy to me.
Actually it's a few things.

Firstly: What happened to the printing at the blade's neck?
To the time when this blade is supposed to be produced STIGA used to print the blade's name there.
It has changed from ' Offensive wood' to 'STIGA Offensiv' to STIGA Offensiv classic.
So what happened to that printing?

Besides, if the blade really is authentic what happened to the handle engraving?
That alone makes it appear a bit suspicious. Yet there's more.

Also if you look from sideview at the core and the other plies it just looks way too new given the estimated age of this blade and all this makes it rather look like a pretty new Stiga Offensive Classic with old handle cups.

Also as others have mentioned, there is a very visible crack that might have been repaired, but it's totally visible, so denying the existance makes one appear a little.....
DISHONEST....
so a bit more honesty would most likely be good for all of us, but everyone has to decide how people will rate his appearance.
[Emoji6]




Here's an ORIGINAL STIGA blade from the eighties. If you look carefully you will find a whole lot of differences to your blade here.



Here are 3 threads that can bring some light into the dark.

The first one is from this forum, the other two from other forums.

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/fo...n-old-Stiga-Offensive-Classic-(1988)&p=160956


http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=69217&PN=1&title=i-am-proud-to-present

http://forum.tt-news.de/showthread.php?t=38192

Certainly I would apologize if my conclusions and assumptions are proven wrong....

....but my gut feeling tells me I'm not so far off....

Listen to that dog bark !!

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Suga D: Do you know when the Tickan blades were introduced? My faint childhood memories tells me that they were "the new big thing" when I was about 7 which would date that to 1985. Everyone had Kjell Johansson, Hans Alsér or Stellan Bengtsson blades but REALLY wanted to get the AN Tickan blades (pre mades but anyway).

mart1nandersson said:

Suga D: Do you know when the Tickan blades were introduced? My faint childhood memories tells me that they were "the new big thing" when I was about 7 which would date that to 1985. Everyone had Kjell Johansson, Hans Alsér or Stellan Bengtsson blades but REALLY wanted to get the AN Tickan blades (pre mades but anyway).

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I think '84 or '85 isn't that far off from reality. Maybe if Magic_M sees this he will add a word or two. I think i can remember an old catalogue from '84 where I saw the 'Tickan' handle the first time. But my old man memory could be also playing tricks on me.
[Emoji6]

It would probably be worth it to see some closeups of that neck part with that what OP calls 'scratch-dirt' *cough-cough*.

Also the top ply looks to me like dyed koto and not like nut, as it was used in the first versions.

The handle in the OP’s post for sure looks weird. This is one of the few photos I have of my own (taken while trying to restore my childhood treasures earlier this year). The lense looks very different.

The blade is nowadays in in the hands of my doubles partner as her backup blade. She only plays TT with this handle paired with Sriver and Superanti. She’s still at division 5 level in Sweden which is pretty good.

Looks as if I'm not the only one smelling something fishy here.

Here's another one. Just take a look at the plies and try to spot the differences.

... and we hear the sounds of crickets chirping...

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... and we hear the sounds of crickets chirping...

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Ooow I so love that sound.

I like it too, but in this case, it is an American expression for the sound of silence. The crickets only chirp when the rest of the environment is silent enough.

Der_Echte said:

I like it too, but in this case, it is an American expression for the sound of silence. The crickets only chirp when the rest of the environment is silent enough.

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This I know, you ole Joker you. Holding breath.