Royal Air Force Tengah Yacht Club Cup

Covered tureen with cover and raised bottom decorated with "RYS Fortuna" on a gold leaf banner. The RYS Fortuna was a wooden schooner built for Adrian Elias Hope (1845-1919...

Silver plated lattice bowl that is a sailing trophy from the Annisquam Yacht Club in Gloucester, Mass. Dated 1939. Engraved "Saturday Series", "Birds" Class, 1939. Marked on Bottom W...

An American silver trophy bowl from the Larchmont Yacht Club, New York State, presented to the yacht 'Pup' in 1905, winner of the MBYC (Mission Bay ...

An exceptional, fine and impressive, antique Victorian English sterling silver cup; an addition to our Victorian silverware collection This exceptional antique Victorian sterling silver presentation cup has a campania shaped form to a circular domed foot. The bulbous, shaped lower portion of this silver cup is embellished with impressive chased and embossed leaf and floral decoration. The plain tapering surface of the cup incorporates the contemporary engraved coat of arms depicting a chevron between three roses, barbed, seeded on a chief of the second a lion passant guardant between two closed books paleways, clasped and garnished of the last, the clasps to the dexter, all above the motto 'Virtus vera nobilitas' - Virtue is true nobility*. The opposing side of this presentation piece incorporates the contemporary engraved inscription 'This Oration Prize the legacy of Dr Hooper adjudged to John Maurice Schulhof by Trinity college Cambridge, 1880' The upper rim of the cup is encompassed with an applied moulded decorated border. This impressive Victorian cup...