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Old 07-03-2008, 10:18 PM
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Posted By: CarltonHendricks

ROWING PLAQUE: 22" TALL X 14 1/2" WIDE
GOLFER: 9 1/2" TALL
Here's a 1920 rowing trophy plaque that arrived yesterday. It's for an intermediate weight 8 oared boat race that was put on by the Middle States Rowing Association (founded in 1890, http://books.google.com/books?id=K40MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA672&lpg=PA672&dq=middle+states+regatta+association&source=web&ots=lT-tTy3-7m&sig=w4LGUOkh99LXgXSmTQSTt0gqu78&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result)
and took place somewhere in N.Y State, and was won by the Norton Boat Club. I ascertained by the link below that the Norton Boat Club was out of Worcester Massachusetts. This is the 4th rowing plaque I've gotten over 20 years. I like the oar sticking out over the top. If you read page 1 of my 2007 National Story,
http://www.sportsantiques.com/2007NATIONAL/07natstory1.htm
there's a part where I'm at Philadelphia's Boathouse Row and I got to go up stairs in the Malta Boathouse for a couple of minutes, but since they just shellacked the floor we couldn't stay long...I was dying to take photos but did get off one shot of a plaque on the wall...it was a crummy/fuzzy shot but it was another example of mine. I'll post that one at the very bottom
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=950DEFDA1131E433A2575AC1A9619C946195D6CF


I'm also posting photos of a golf ashtray/change dish I got a while back....the guy sent it without the glass insert that was pictured in the eBay listing...said he'd send it and finally got it today only to find he sent the wrong insert...too big....I've seen this figure before a few times. I have a sliver plate trophy with the same golfer...I think the caddy is based on a large concrete one at Pinehurst or some big name course. This is the only example of this tray I've seen though...





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