Lot 173
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Beresford (Jack): A 38ll. folio album, containing approximately 179 rowing photographs, the majority of large size (8 x 9¾ or similar), covering events in Beresford's career from 1919-25, including Henley Regatta, the Diamond Sculls, Wingfield Sculls, Marlow Regatta, the Metropolitan Regatta, also the Olympic Sculls 1920 and 1924, and the Philadelphia Gold Cup 1925, each with manuscript caption in Beresford's hand, contemporary half morocco, rubbed; and another photograph album also formerly belonging to Beresford. (2)

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Beresford (Jack): A 38ll. folio album, containing approximately 179 rowing photographs, the majority of large size (8 x 9¾ or similar), covering events in Beresford's career from 1919-25, including Henley Regatta, the Diamond Sculls, Wingfield Sculls, Marlow Regatta, the Metropolitan Regatta, also the Olympic Sculls 1920 and 1924, and the Philadelphia Gold Cup 1925, each with manuscript caption in Beresford's hand, contemporary half morocco, rubbed; and another photograph album also formerly belonging to Beresford. (2)

Lot Essay

The final of the double sculls at the 1936 Games was won by Jack Beresford and Leslie Southwood in 7 mins. 20.8 secs., two and a half lengths ahead of the German pair, Kaidel and Pirsch, who had beaten them in the first round. It was the 37 year old Beresford's fifth Olympic competition: 'Each time he won a medal; in 1920 a silver in the single sculls; in 1924 a gold in the same event; in 1928 a silver in the eights; in 1932 a gold in the coxwainless fours; and, finally, in 1936, this third gold, in the double sculls. Considering that he and Southwood won the Double Sculls Challenge Cup at Henley in 1939, it is quite possible that Beresford would have won a sixth medal had not World War II intervened' (David Wallechinsky, The Complete Book of the Olympics, 1984, p.350).

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