3-086-262 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Aldershot Cup, 1898. 'This handsome silver trophy, with two delicately chased goblets to match, was competed for on May 11. The competition was confined to horses which had never won a steeplechase of the value of 100 sovereigns, the property of officers of the Aldershot District, and ridden by officers on full or half-pay in the Army or Navy. The trophy was designed and modelled by her Majesty's silversmiths, Messrs. Mappin and Webb, of Queen Victoria Street and Oxford Street, and portrays a boar-hunt in alto-relief around the body of the trophy, surmounting a base boldly fluted in Grecian style, the handle and spout with mask ornamentations, and the cover surmounted by a beautifully chased figure of a huntsman.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.