Silver Challenge cup presented to L Emanuel 1878

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Type: Trophies
Date: 28 February 1878
Place: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Materials: Silver
Collection: Emanuel Family collection
Accession number: 2008.0040.0006

Description

A decorative silver prize goblet with raised circular base, engraved 'CHALLENGE CUP / BEST BULL / Awarded in sec. 2 class 25 / YOUNG BRUNSWICK 3RD. / L. Emanuel. / Landsdowne. / Goulburn' on one side with 'YASS / P. & A. ASSOCIATION / 8th Annual Show. / 28th Feb'y 1878' on the opposite, with a row of five hallmarks above of which the first reads 'S.H'. The cup is bordered with a decorative rim, and features interlinked descending floral and foliate patterning below. The rim of the base is beaded, and includes geometric stampwork on the raised portion beneath the stem which includes three bands in the middle. 'HARDY BROS / SYDNEY' is impressed in underside of the base. The stem is slightly bent.

About the collection

The Emanuel Family collection comprises prize cups, medallions, cattle branding irons, office ledgers and equipment, maps and photograph albums associated with the pastoral activities of the Emanuel family in New South Wales and Western Australia. The objects in this large collection date from the 1860s to the 1960s and are generally in good condition. The Emanuel Family collection records dynamics of capital and power which drove the expansion of Australian pastoralism in the nineteenth century, and which maintained pastoral empires throughout the twentieth century. The Emanuel family pioneered the west Kimberley region in the 1880s. Solomon Emanuel, head of an established mercantile and pastoral family based in Goulburn, helped fund the expansion of the Durack family from Queensland into the east Kimberley. His sons Isadore and Sydney established a chain of stations across the west Kimberley. With Alexander Forrest they secured a monopoly over the live cattle trade between Derby and Fremantle. The Emanuel family sold their west Kimberley pastoral stations in 1984.

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