A polo trophy in the form of a Victorian silver & glass liqueur set presented by Middlewood Polo Club in Yorkshire in 1900, hallmarked John and William Deakin, Chester, 1897, comprising a silver-mounted glass decanter & stopper, six liqueur glasses with silver holders, the glass bottomed drinks tray with stylistically identical pierced working incorporating cherub masks, exotic birds and foliage but bearing no hallmark, inscribed SUNSHINE, MIDDLEWOOD POLO CLUB 1900, the decanter 23.5cm. high, the tray 27 by 19cm., very good condition The Middlewood Polo Club was formed by Charles Howard Taylor with his brother, in 1894 employing a field near Highfield Farm in Darfield, located east of Barnsley. A notable member was Captain Albert North, Oxfordshire Light Infantry and Master of the Earl Fitzwilliam's Hounds. Other members numbered Charles Ellison, the Earl Fitzwilliam, J.E. Mitchell, T.W.H. Mitchell, Joseph Pickersgill Jr. (who had represented Cambridge), Harry Whithworth, Richard Wilkinson, and John & P.H Wormald.
A polo trophy in the form of a Victorian silver & glass liqueur set presented by Middlewood Polo Club in Yorkshire in 1900, hallmarked John and William Deakin, Chester, 1897, comprising a silver-mounted glass decanter & stopper, six liqueur glasses with silver holders, the glass bottomed drinks tray with stylistically identical pierced working incorporating cherub masks, exotic birds and foliage but bearing no hallmark, inscribed SUNSHINE, MIDDLEWOOD POLO CLUB 1900, the decanter 23.5cm. high, the tray 27 by 19cm., very good condition The Middlewood Polo Club was formed by Charles Howard Taylor with his brother, in 1894 employing a field near Highfield Farm in Darfield, located east of Barnsley. A notable member was Captain Albert North, Oxfordshire Light Infantry and Master of the Earl Fitzwilliam's Hounds. Other members numbered Charles Ellison, the Earl Fitzwilliam, J.E. Mitchell, T.W.H. Mitchell, Joseph Pickersgill Jr. (who had represented Cambridge), Harry Whithworth, Richard Wilkinson, and John & P.H Wormald.
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