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MARK OF PHILIP FIRMIN & SON, LONDON, 1864,
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A VICTORIAN SILVER "GARIBALDI" ROWING PRIZE ARM BADGE,
MARK OF PHILIP FIRMIN & SON, LONDON, 1864,
Oval with reed, ribbon & leafy border, the matt ground applied with a portrait bust of Giuseppe Garibaldi and date "1864" above, encircled by 4 scrolls reading "GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI GUERRA D'ITALIA 1859, TO COMMEMORATE HIS ENTRY INTO LONDON, APRIL 11TH.", with below a cartouche inscribed "Won by RATCLIFFE PICK, Oct.er 18th. 1864", back affixed with 3 rings, 7¼ in. long (18.4 cm.), 7 oz.
MARK OF PHILIP FIRMIN & SON, LONDON, 1864,
Oval with reed, ribbon & leafy border, the matt ground applied with a portrait bust of Giuseppe Garibaldi and date "1864" above, encircled by 4 scrolls reading "GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI GUERRA D'ITALIA 1859, TO COMMEMORATE HIS ENTRY INTO LONDON, APRIL 11TH.", with below a cartouche inscribed "Won by RATCLIFFE PICK, Oct.er 18th. 1864", back affixed with 3 rings, 7¼ in. long (18.4 cm.), 7 oz.
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This badge was one part of a 4-part prize (coat, badge, cash & Freedom of the Thames), in the sculling race at the City, Southwark & Lambeth Apprentices Regatta held on 18/10/1864. There were 5 entries for the event; Ratcliffe Pick of Thames Bank beat C. Parker of Westminster by 3½ lengths in the final with 2 of the other entrants not completing the race. This was an annual meeting to commemorate Garibaldi's arrival in London where, on 11/4/1864, the Illustrated London News records he was greeted by a crowd of 500,000 people! The next day he was given the honorary Freedom of the City.
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) was one of the heros of the struggle for the unification of Italy. Active in the 1848 uprising and an elected deputy in the Roman Assembly, he proclaimed Victor Emanuel king of a united Italy in 1860, at that time holding the rank of general in the Piedmontese army, but it would not be until 1870 that he would see his old adversary, Pope Pius IX, defeated & Rome liberated to become capital of a unified country. London apparently shut down for 3 days when he visited the city in 1864, already feted for his exploits 4 years earlier when with his 1,000 volunteers, he had landed in Sicily, intent on marching on Rome to liberate it from the reactionary Papacy.
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) was one of the heros of the struggle for the unification of Italy. Active in the 1848 uprising and an elected deputy in the Roman Assembly, he proclaimed Victor Emanuel king of a united Italy in 1860, at that time holding the rank of general in the Piedmontese army, but it would not be until 1870 that he would see his old adversary, Pope Pius IX, defeated & Rome liberated to become capital of a unified country. London apparently shut down for 3 days when he visited the city in 1864, already feted for his exploits 4 years earlier when with his 1,000 volunteers, he had landed in Sicily, intent on marching on Rome to liberate it from the reactionary Papacy.