Lot 585

BURMESE SILVER AND SILVER GILT NOTEBOOK COVER, RELATING TO THE BURMA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
DATED 1911




Auction: Day Two: 20 May 2021 | From 11:00
£750
Description
of rectangular form, the front and back with chased and embossed scrolling decoration and with twelve roundels with relief moulded figures representing cricket, football, hurdles, running, hockey, rugby, high jump, tennis, boxing, pole vaulting, shot put, and swimming; the front and back cover set to the centre with a gilt medallion with the moulded inscription 'Burma Athletic Association', and centred with a temple, the front inscribed 'Presented to The Honble Sir Harvey Adamson K.C.S.I Lieutenant Governor of Burma On the Occasion of his Opening the Grounds of the Burma Athletic Association, 2nd January 1911', fitted with a pen holder
Dimensions
16cm high, 11.5cm wide



