Priced dropped 1/2 price !!!!!! Royal Cinque Ports Yacht Club 1880 Medal Prince Arthur Cup Captain Mackie SILVER.

An amazing very rare piece ofYachting history from the UK, unique to this race and year.

From the goldsmith John Brogden -- 

Besides exhibiting jewelleryat the 1851 Great Exhibition, John Brogden won awards at variousexhibitions in Paris and London from the 1850s to the 1870s. His designswere inspired by archaeological and Renaissance objects and he enjoyed royalpatronage. ( wikipedia ). Probably ceasing to work under his name this veryyear of 1880.

This solid silver work of artwas first prize to Captain John Mackie for winning the Prince Arthur Cup just 8years after the inception of the Royal Cinque Ports Yacht Club. It has theoriginal leather bound, velvet lined case it near mint condition, 

The notes on the yacht are asfollows -- Vanduara steel, schooner J. Whyte

tonnage 216188 

2 DKS 4 BH CEM.

Electric light

Length 169'

Breadth 24', depth 14'

Built D&W Henderson &Co. established 1880

( D. and W. Henderson assisted the Duke ofDevonshire’s Barrow Shipbuilding Co in the design of theirfirst ships )

Glasgow 18

Obverse

H.R. H. Prince Arthur in high relief

Lettering: H.R. H. PRINCE ARTHUR K.G. COMMODORE

Reverse

CrownedArms

Lettering: ROYALCINQUE PORTS YACHT CLUB FOUNDED 1872

EDGE - engraved Prince ArthurCup Won, "Vanduara" Cap. John Mackie

It can be worn as a brooch (the hinge pin is solid ) or suspended as a necklace. The case hinge workstight as well as the clasp