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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Historical
• Sale Date:
  29 May 2021 ~ 11am (AEST) - Session 1: Lots 1 - 684
  30 May 2021 ~ 11am (AEST) - Session 2: Lots 685 - 1314
• Lot #:
  16
• Lot Description:
  HENRY YOUNG & Co. important Australian silver cricket trophy adorned with gilded batsman and wicket, cricket bats, balls and stumps
  engraved “The Melbourne Sports Depot. Junior Cricket Club Trophy, Season 1884 & 5. Won By The Dudgeon & Arnell C.C., Presented By The Members To J. Aitken Esq President, 29th May 1885”.
  50.5cm high.
  stamped “H. Young & Co. Sterling Silver”
• Notes:
  This trophy was the subject of an article by Tony Lewis in the April 2020 edition of the Silver Society of Australia Newsletter (pp13-14): “The first echelon of (suburban) junior teams competed for trophies donated by the Melbourne Sports Depot (MSD), Melbourne’s premier sporting goods store. Founded by Frederick Dodge in about 1880 in Elizabeth Street, the firm became a sporting icon.” “Some idea of the importance of these competitions may be gained by considering the size and quality of this trophy....The cup was made by Henry Young & Co., of Collins Street, Melbourne.....Young made use of gilding to create exquisite highlights in his work as is the case in this cup.... The team that won the cup was the Dudgeon & Arnell Cricket Club Juniors. Dudgeon & Arnell was a manufacturing tobacconist business whose premises were in Richmond. It evolved from a business founded by John Dudgeon.....[who] had been transported to Tasmania for “Curtilage breaking and Larceny”. The firm flourished and survived...until 1953.”
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 35,000
• Realised Price:
  $0.00
• Category:
  Silver

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