A VICTORIAN ELKINGTON & CO SILVER (WORN SILVER GILT) TWIN HA...

Hammer

£3,000

A VICTORIAN ELKINGTON & CO SILVER (WORN SILVER GILT) TWIN HANDLED TROPHY CUP, the rim repousse decorated and chased with thistles, shamrocks and roses, the angular scroll handles with a cattle head mask, engraved on one side 'Royal Dublin Society Cattle Show Phoenix Challenge Cup presented by the Phoenix Oil Mill Company Limited, Liverpool. For the best animal in the Fat Cattle Classes, Re-presented in 1899 for the best yearling Shorthorn Bull.', with engraved presentations from 1898 - 1954, some gaps during First World War period, the lower body repousse decorated and chased with shells and leaves, short pedestal, domed circular foot, makers Elkington & Co, Birmingham 1895, approx. 159ozt, 4967 grams, height 55cm, an identical electroplate gilt trophy is held in the collection of The Royal Doublin Society but awarded for a different cattle class (Condition report: the gilding is mostly worn off to the exterior and interior but traces remain in the hard to clean areas and to the underside, sits fairly level on a flat surface, the top rim looks slightly oval when viewed from above, a shallow crease behind both handles, the foot rim is slightly out of shape in one area, surface is scratched)