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Cycling interest: Falmouth Cycling Club Challenge Cup;
a large, late Victorian two handled trophy cup and cover on an embossed pedestal foot with an embossed, oviform body and capped, griffin-masked handles, the cover tiered and surmounted by the cast figure of Victory, the body with a wreath cartouche on each side; one engraved with a racing cyclist below the applied enamelled seal of the borough council of Falmouth, the other cartouche vacant but applied at the top with enamelled coat of arms of the Duchy of Cornwall, probably by Thomas Walker, Birmingham 1898 - 76.5cm high, (together with large wooden plynth), 186oz gross, (wooden inset base).
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a large, late Victorian two handled trophy cup and cover on an embossed pedestal foot with an embossed, oviform body and capped, griffin-masked handles, the cover tiered and surmounted by the cast figure of Victory, the body with a wreath cartouche on each side; one engraved with a racing cyclist below the applied enamelled seal of the borough council of Falmouth, the other cartouche vacant but applied at the top with enamelled coat of arms of the Duchy of Cornwall, probably by Thomas Walker, Birmingham 1898 - 76.5cm high, (together with large wooden plynth), 186oz gross, (wooden inset base).
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