A SILVER YACHT TROPHY VASE

MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 1870

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A SILVER YACHT TROPHY VASE
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 1870
Formed as a pail, tapering cylindrical, the body realistically modeled with staves and hoops, the handle formed as rope, the body engraved with an inscription, marked under base
13 in. high; 53 oz.
The engraved inscription: Subscription Cup Won by the Tidal Wave Sept. 28th 1870

Lot Essay

This annual schooners-only New York Yacht Club regatta took place on September 28th in New York harbor from Sandy Hook Lightship twenty miles to windward and return. Commodore William Voorhis's Tidal Wave won on corrected time and Dauntless, owned by New York Herald's editor James Gordon Bennett, was the first yacht to finish.

See lot 139 for biographical information on William Voorhis.

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