469 A large Victorian bisque figurine of a young lady tennis player,
holding a lawn tennis racket and ball and with costume defined with rackets and balls moulded into her shirt, possibly by Robinson & Leadbetter or Heubach, pastel colours heightened with gilding, height 32cm., 12 1/2in. £50 - 80
471 A smoky amber coloured lemonade glass engraved with a golfing scene,
the upper portion engraved with a delightful continuous tree-lined golf course scene showing caddies carrying golf bags and four players in plus-fours playing their way around the course, the clubhouse appears to be flying the Stars and Stripes, height 11cm., 4 1/2in. £40 - 60
473 A silver plated replica of the 1992 Federation Cup ‘runners-up’ trophy exact scaled-down copy of the original trophy as presented to the runners-up of the final at Frankfurt, Germany, July 12- 19th. 1992, being Spain represented by Vicario, Sanchex, Navarro, Garrigues and Vives, runners-up in the final to Germany, 18cm., 7in. diameter, 19cm. 7 1/2in. height, contained in it’s original velvet-lined presentation carrying-case measuring 24 by 22 by 29cm., 9 ½ by 8 ½ by 11 1/2in., complete with the sponsor’s (NEC) blind- stamped gold logo and competition name £150 - 200
469 & 470
470 A Large and unusual Victorian bisque figurine of an Irish gentleman player,
decorated in pastel colours, he is sporting a caubeen, wears costume incorporating shamrock designs, holds a diagonally strung racket and a ball, while the overall modelling is unusual as it includes tennis net and post, the base decorated with shamrock and tennis balls, some professional restoration around his collar, height 36.5 cm., 14 1/2in. £80 - 120
472 A Venus Rosewater Dish, an electrotype circular `Temperantia` charger being a replica of the solid silver example made by Elkington & Co Ltd in 1864 that is presented annually to the Wimbledon Ladies’ Singles Lawn Tennis Champion, the design after the antique by Francois Briot (circa 1585), by ‘L. Oudry et Cie’, decorated in relief with a design of allegorical cartouches within borders of strapwork, birds, masks and flowers, diameter approx 44.5cm., 17 1/2in., suffering from overcleaning over time, copper base metal apparent £400 - 600
474 A Victorian golfing prize that curiously has a lawn tennis theme, In the form of a Victorian oak and plated metal desk top paper clip with a pair of spring-mounted lob-sided lawn tennis rackets and tennis balls, the oak base applied with an engraved plaque WORCESTERSHIRE GOLF CLUB HANDICAP, 3rd PRIZE WON BY, E.F. CHANCE, the clip engraved GROSS 84, LESS 7, NET 77, length 12cm., 5in.; sold together with scans of related newspaper cuttings (2)
Of note is that this trophy was won by 21 year-old Edward Ferguson Chance of the Chance Glassworks Empire. The company famously provided the glass for the Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851.
This handicap was competed for in 1883 at Worcestershire Golf Club located at Malvern Wells and where Chance served a spell as Captain. £100 - 150
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