A THREE-HANDLED SILVER PRESENTATION CUP

RETAILER'S MARK OF ANDREWS & CO., 1898

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A THREE-HANDLED SILVER PRESENTATION CUP
Retailer's mark of Andrews & Co., 1898
Urn form, the swirling base with a modelled figure of a warrior with a pitchfork, the body applied with a Viking with a sword and a shield on one side under an inscription, another side etched with a poem, the third side applied with a female figure amid flowing drapery holding a wreath aloft and a rolled manuscript with DEWEY, another fully-modelled winged female figure above, with three handles, also with inscription under base, marked under base
16in. (38cm.) high; 79oz. (2457 gr.)

Provenance

By tradition, the urn was a gift from Admiral Dewey to Admiral Richmond P. Hobson who was called the Hero of the Merrimac, the iron-clad submarine used during the Spanish American War,
thence by descent

Lot Essay

One side of body with inscription: Dewey Manila May 1st 1989. The other side with poem:
Freedom's viking of the seas,
Whose battle banners stood unfulr'd
Far far beyond the Carribees
And signaled victory to the world
You carred safe thro' smoke and flame
The emblem that we have today,
And 'mong its bright stars wrote your name,
Far, far above Manila Bay

A bumper, then we drink to you,
And pledge the man who won the Bay
And kept the Nation's honor true
Where in their pride the foemen lay;
The brightest page our history bears
Is that inscribed by laureled Fame,
And one at the top appears
The glowing presence of your name
Picadilly Club

The engraving under the base reads:
FROM THE
Piccadilly Club
CINCINNATI
-OUR MOTTO-
"SPEAK WELL OF THE TOWN YOU LIVE IN"
"SPEND YOUR MONEY AT HOME"
Perin Langdon. Prest.
A.H. Hugh. Vice-Prest.
Joseph T. Carew. Secretary.
Brent Arnold
Albert G. Clark
Julius Fleischmann
T.W. Graydon
Chas. M. Holloway
Chas. H. Jacob
Leopold Markbreit
Clarence Price
J.G. Schmidlapp
Chas. P. Taft
Jas. D. Ellsion
Sam'L. M. Felton
Jas. V. Guthrie
A.H. Hinkle
W.T. Irwin
Nicholas Longworth
Richard H. Mitchell
Frank L. Perin
Geo. N. Stone
A.B. Voorheis

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