Antique Lawn Bowling Set with Presentation Inscriptions
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Lawn Bowling: A sterling silver snuff box with gilt interior with presentation inscription 'Richmond Union Bowling Club Presented by Thomas Gardner Esq. V.P. - Won by A.E. Butler. Season 1873-4' in beautiful silk-lined leather covered box. Accompanied by a leather purse with sterling silver lock and decoration with an applied shield engraved 'Presented By The Bowlers of N.S.W. to Mr. A.E. Butler, Hon.Sec. V.B.A., Sydney 1892.', Richmond Union Bowling Club of Victoria was founded in November 1868. The first President was George S. Coppin.The Club was formed when Richmond Councillors played bowls against Brighton Councillors on the Court House Hotel green in Brighton. When Richmond Town Hall was being built a bowling green was constructed, opening on November 2 1869. The club was party to the formation of the V.B.A. in 1880, and produced many famous bowlers, J.H. Sheedy, singles champion of Australia 1900, 1904, 1907 and of Victoria 1904, and Victorian singles champion A. E. Butler, R. Mitchell, B. Hansen, R.T. Kelly, W. Bleach, each twice: W. Nation, W. J. Cuddon, R. S. Inglis, and F. Jamieson each once.
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- Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
- Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.
The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 ? 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910.
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