3-003-934 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Challenge Cup of the County of Lancaster Rifle Association, 1861. Engraving from a photograph taken by Captain Dwyer, of the 5th Royal Lancashire Militia. 'This handsome piece of plate was manufactured by Messrs. Dismore, of Liverpool, for the County of Lancaster Rifle Association, and was one of the numerous prizes offered by them for competition at their late meeting at Altcar, near Liverpool. The cup is of silver, partly gilt, and richly embossed, and is of the nominal value of one hundred guineas. It is surmounted by a trophy of colours, rifles, drums, &c., and upon each side is the figure, in frosted silver, of a rifleman kneeling in the Hythe position. To become the property of any person it must be won by him three times consecutively, and be competed for with the Enfield rifle. No person can compete for it who has not previously won a prize at the same meeting, and who is not also an effective volunteer of the county. Mr. Handsley, the first successful competitor for it (having previously won the prize given by Mr. Barnes, of Liverpool), is Lieutenant in the 17th Lancashire Rifles, whose headquarters are at Burnley, Lancashire'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.