Sunlight Prize Cup. Presented By Lever Bros L’d, Manufacturers Of Sunlight Soap
c1910. Silverplated cup with dragon motif handles and engraved foliage decoration with text, manufacturer’s stamps to base, 26.5 x 15.3 x 10cm. Oxidation to surface. Stamps include “J.H. Potter, Sheffield. EPNSA” and “Manufacturing Silversmith Cutler & Electroplater.” The intricately engraved cup with finely cast handles features a panel on the back, where a winning team’s details were to be engraved. A similar prize cup was won by the British 4th Worcestershire Regiment in 1905 at a cricket match in Jamaica. From 1893 the Lever Bros, manufacturers of Sunlight soap, provided silverplated trophies to various sports and other competitions including kennel clubs and agricultural shows to promote their products in England and “throughout its empire, including Australia.” In 1910, a Sunlight prize trophy cup intended for a Leven Regatta was on display in a window at G. & A. Ellis, a general store in Ulverstone, Tasmania. Lever Brothers was co-founded by William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925) with his brother James (1854–1916) in 1886 to manufacture Sunlight soap in Warrington, England. A teetotaller, William Lever “encouraged and sponsored” sports and innumerable healthy living activities with Sunlight prize cups. Ref: The North West Post (Formby, Tas.), 17.12.1910; Mullock Jones Auctioneers; Liverpool Museums; Launceston Cup (Sunlight cup history); Wiki.
Item #CL208-17
Price (AUD): $550.00 other currencies