Prize Collection (page 15)

Lady Seymour (Hayter)
LADY SEYMOUR She was the Queen of Love and Beauty who presided over the famous Eglinton Tournament in 1840 and gave away the prizes. Date: flourished 1840

Cat and Goldfish
Not all that tempts your wand ring eyes and heedless hearts, is lawful prize, nor all that glisters, gold... a cat seeks to abduct a goldfish from its bowl

Dog Show Card Reserve
Hartlepool and District Kennel Association Reserve Prize card, with advertising by Spratts and Jeyes

DAHLIA
Prize Dahlia

Etalon Mulassier
This 7-year old stallion, understandably, won first prize at the agricultural show at Niort

Joseph Henry Blackburne
JOSEPH HENRY BLACKBURNE English chess champion, at the time of his winning first prize at the Berlin chess tournament. Date: 1841 - 1924

Niels Finsen Portrait
NIELS RYBERG FINSEN Danish medical pioneer who despite his own severe medical problems made important discoveries and received the Nobel Prize in 1903

Band of Hope Prize
C.E.T.S Church of England Temperance Society ? All England Challenge Competition for Band of Hope, Diocese of Canterbury, Herne Bay Branch. Claude Watkins wins a prize

Prize Winners Bookplate
A prizewinners bookplate issued by Wellington school to R Ls Mansel for winning the mathematics prize. Alas, we shall never which book it was once attached to

Convent School Prize
A certificate or bookplate to mark the winning of a prize for passing Cambridge Senior by Marian Ward, VI form, Ursuline Convent, Upton, Essex & St Angelas High School

School Prize 1864
A small prizewinners certificate or bookplate awarded to Charles Cooper for his improvement in Common Things 3rd class in hope that it will spur him on

French Mule 1865
A young French mule with its owner, Monsieur Rimbault, first prize at the Niort competition of 1865

French Cow 1862
A French cow, 18 months old, owned by Monsieur de Laugaudin, Martel, Loire, first prize in the regional Moulins competition of 1862

Louis Victor De Broglie
Duke LOUIS VICTOR DE BROGLIE French physicist, Nobel prize 1929

Paris / Eiffel Tower 1901
SANTOS-DUMONT successfully flies round the Tour Eiffel, though he fails to complete the circuit in 30 minutes to win the offered prize

MACLEOD (1876 - 1935)
JOHN JAMES RICHARD MACLEOD Canadian physiologist Nobel prize 1922

NOBEL (1833 - 1896)
ALFRED NOBEL Swedish inventor, manufacturer and prize-giver aged about 50 (ca 1883)

Sayers and Heenan boxing
Tom Sayers squares up to John Heenan in the most celebrated prize fight of the nineteenth century. It eventually concluded as a draw

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