A Victoria Cross Recipient’s Silver Sports Trophy.
A Georgian octagonal shaped silver cup, 160mm high x 85mm in diameter, hallmarks for London 1789 but given as an award at various times, first competed for as a House Sports Challenge Cup at Eton College in 1901, and jointly won in 1907 by Neville Bowes Elliott-Cooper, who was awarded the Victoria Cross, Distinguished Service Order, and Military Cross whilst serving with the Royal Fusiliers during the Great War; advanced Lieutenant-Colonel, he died as a Prisoner of War in 1918. Other winners of the trophy include Sir Eugen Millington-Drake (involved in the Olympic Delegations of 1936 and 1948), and Air Commodore Sir Harold Peake; he subsequently presented this trophy to King Edward’s Grammar School in 1947 for the All Round Athlete of the Year; the final name on the trophy is in 1988. The cup retains its silver gilt inner finish and comes complete with its wooden base, good overall condition £80-£100

Dix Noonan Webb, May 2016.