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Auction 65 21 Sep 2022
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Sport: Scotland, Golf, Calcutta Challenge Cup, at the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, small silver medal, 1887, "Won by G. F. Sanders", engraving of cup, rev. named in wreath, 24mm., suspension loop and ring, maroon ribbon with buckle-clasp, good very fine and toned
The Calcutta Cup, originally known as the Silver Cashmere Cup, was presented to the R & A by the Calcutta Golf Club (later the Royal Calcutta Golf Club). Rules were established and implemented in August 1885 with fifty-two members participating. Today the Calcutta Cup is played for each year at the R & A as the premier Foursomes competition. There seems to have been a second Calcutta Cup competed for at the Royal Blackheath Golf Club, who, in 1873, had sent a gold prize medal to the Calcutta Golf Club. In return the Calcutta Golf Club presented the Royal Blackheath with a "magnificent silver trophy", first competed for in 1879 and reputedly fashioned out of the same hoard of silver rupees from which the later England-Scotland rugby trophy was made. This Calcutta Cup was first competed for in 1875 and won by Walter Henry Richardson.
(Estimate: 100-150 GBP)
The Calcutta Cup, originally known as the Silver Cashmere Cup, was presented to the R & A by the Calcutta Golf Club (later the Royal Calcutta Golf Club). Rules were established and implemented in August 1885 with fifty-two members participating. Today the Calcutta Cup is played for each year at the R & A as the premier Foursomes competition. There seems to have been a second Calcutta Cup competed for at the Royal Blackheath Golf Club, who, in 1873, had sent a gold prize medal to the Calcutta Golf Club. In return the Calcutta Golf Club presented the Royal Blackheath with a "magnificent silver trophy", first competed for in 1879 and reputedly fashioned out of the same hoard of silver rupees from which the later England-Scotland rugby trophy was made. This Calcutta Cup was first competed for in 1875 and won by Walter Henry Richardson.
(Estimate: 100-150 GBP)