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Victorian Silver Racing Trophy
Reily & Storer, London
designed by Edmund Cotterill

1843
maker’s mark: CR over GS into a
quatrefoil mark of Reily & Storer
sterling silver mark
assay date 1843
assay mark of London
height: 32 cm; base diameter: 32 cm;
weight: 5 kg
Modelled as ‘The Death of The Douglas’,
the silver sculpture shows two mounted
knights and an archer having just loosed
his arrow at one of them, with a dead
stag underfoot.
The sculpture is standing on an
ebonised plinth applied with shields;
the central shield is engraved as follows:
‘Newcastle Upon Tyne 1844 Most Noble
the Marquess of Normandy Right
Hon’ble The Earl of Zetland, Sir C M
Monck. Bart. Hope Johnstone Esq.
Stewards’. The engraving on the second
shield reads: ‘Won by Alice Hawthorn
The Property of Gerard Salvin, of
Croxdale, 27th June 1844’. The third one
bears the coat of arms of Salvin.
The sculpture is the racing trophy
won by Alice Hawthorn, a renowned
racemare of the 1830’s and 40’s, in 1844.
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