Description: Item/Description: Antique 19th Century Meriden Brittania 5 Mile Handicap Road Race High Wheeler bicycle trophy. Decorative presentation cup trophy fashioned from quadruple silver plate in neoclassical style. Late Victorian motifs of flowers an vines. Chalice-like with arched handles with pierce work accents. Raised applied florettes around top, delicate floral garland etching decorate body and base. Front of trophy depicts a bicyclist on a high wheeler. Back of trophy has blank presentation space. The stepped lid has a free-standing figure of a bicyclist in period clothing. Hallmarked on bottom: Meriden B. Company 500 S.

Material: Silver plate

Dimensions: Height: 14 1/4"; Width: 9 1/4"; Base Width: 4"

Condition: Good. Surface use and age wear include missing bicycle to lid; dings to rim of lid, tarnish, spots of oxidation, scratches, scuffs, nicks to exterior and interior. Stands firmly on surface.

Age: 1892

Provenance: Private Estate

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