Australian cricket trophy engraved with 'Boyle & Scotts…

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Australian cricket trophy engraved with 'Boyle & Scotts Challenge Cup, For Best Junior Cricket Club, Season 1884/5, Won by the Queensberry C. C., Hotham', the reverse of the body engraved with a cricketing scene, with two classical styled angel handles, a wicket keeper to the lid and a kangaroo bowling to a lion on the base. 'Boyle Played in the First Australian 'Test' Team in 1878. Boyle and his business partner David Scott founded the Australian Cricket, Football & Sports Warehouse in Bourke Street, Melbourne in 1879. They awarded trophies to junior clubs as encouragement in the game. The partnership dissolved in 1892. Other Boyle & Scott trophies are held in the Melbourne Cricket Club museum, although this trophy is more ornate. It encourages the rivalry between the colonials and the 'Mother Land'

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