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Richard Gorton 'Dick' Barlow, Lancashire & England, 1871-1891. Excellent and historic early silver cup/trophy 'Presented to R.G. Barlow by a few friends in Australia for his excellent batting & bowling against the Australian Eleven. January 29th 1883'. The elaborately decorated silver cup with lid/cover, measuring 10" tall, stands on a base of two cricket bats and a cricket stump with three silver cricket balls to foot. the inscription engraved into the front floral cartouche, the handles of the cup with mounted cricket balls and the exquisite lid/cover with a figure of a batsman (not unlike Barlow) playing a shot with silver cricket ball with stumps behind, the rear cartouche blank. The cup/trophy made by Hilliard & Thomason of Birmingham and hallmarked Birmingham 1878. The cup/trophy sold by W. Kerr of Sydney. An historic and unique early trophy presented to Barlow following the match the 3rd Test at Sydney where he made scores of 28 and 24 and took 7 wickets for forty runs to win the Test and the Ashes for England by two matches to one. Significantly, at a similar time as the trophy was presented to Barlow, some ladies burnt the bails used in the match, once the game was won, and placed the 'Ashes' in a small urn and presented it to Ivo Bligh. Previously sold at Phillips sale of 'Cricketana' of May 1982 as lot 292 sale The cup/trophy was pictured in Barlow's book 'Forty Years of First-Class Cricket' published in 1908 on page 191 and it is also mentioned in the text on page 19, 'For my bowling in the match I received over £20 and a silver cup....'. VG
This was a very significant Test match in Ashes history. The Captain Ivo Bligh pledged to bring back 'The Ashes of English Cricket', following the obituary which had been published when Australia defeated England at The Oval during the 1882 English season. In the third and deciding 3rd Test played at Sydney, England batted first making 347 all out, in reply, Australia made 218. In England's second innings they only made 123 with Spofforth taking 7-44. Barlow (7 wickets) and England then proceeded to bowl the Australians out for 83 winning the Test by 69 runs and the Ashes. After the tourists had won this game and thus the series of three matches by two to one, some ladies burnt the bails used in the match, once the game was won, and placed the 'Ashes' in a small urn and presented it to the victorious captain of the English team Ivo Bligh, he had won back the ashes of English cricket'. The urn, together with its embroidered velvet bag, is housed in the Memorial Gallery at Lord's. Richard Barlow played seven times for England against Australia in England: in the match which gave rise to the Ashes at the Oval in 1882; and at Lord's, the Oval, and Old Trafford in 1884 and 1886. Barlow paid three visits to Australia, going out with Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury in 1881/1882, with the Hon. Ivo Bligh in 1882/3, and again with Shaw and Shrewsbury in 1886/1887. He played in every match of all three tours. His batting epitomised the term 'stonewalling'. He also played football as a goalkeeper for Lancashire. Barlow took part in the original Ashes match and is commemorated by the poem pasted on the side of the urn: 'When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn; Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return, return; The welkin will ring loud, The great crowd will feel proud, Seeing Barlow and Bates with the urn, the urn; And the rest coming home with the urn'. Hilliard & Thomason were renowned Victorian silver makers who made a wide range of high quality items including cups, christening cups etc