"Rare Set x 12 Myopia Hunt Club Dinner Plates w/ Hand-Painted MHC Sporting Scenes By Cyril Gorainoff" (SOLD)
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Presenting an incredibly rare/ complete set of 12 "MHC Sporting Pursuits" dinner plates commissioned by MHC that famed Abercrombie & Fitch renowned sporting artist, Cyril Gorainoff painstakingly hand-painted expressly for only a select few MHC founding members' families as presentation gifts.
Sz: 10 1/2"D
1) View of the Clubhouse from Lone Tree Hill
2) The Eighteenth Hole
3) Meet at the Kennels
4) The Willow Dale Race Meet
5) Polo at Myopia
6) The Waldingfield Beagles at "The Old House" Appleton Farms
7) The Sagamores
8) The Rond Point in the Grass Ride
9) Crossing the Ipswich River
10) The Richard Mortimer Jr. Memorial Bridge
11) Finish of the Thanksgiving Day Drag at Juniper Ridge
12) Tennis Courts
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Myopia Hunt Club is a foxhunting and private country club in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, northeast of Boston. The club hosted the U.S. Open golf tournament four times in its early days: 1898, 1901, 1905, and 1908.
Myopia Hunt Club was founded in 1882 by J. Murray Forbes.
The name "Myopia" is due to some of its founding members having come from the Myopia Club in Winchester, Massachusetts, which had been founded by four brothers with poor vision, or myopia. Today, the Myopia Hunt Club is a drag hunt, meaning that the hounds follow a laid scent rather than live fox.
Myopia also owns one of the oldest continually running polo fields in the nation. Gibney Field, formerly used as a pasture, was mowed and used for practice in the summer of 1888. That fall, Myopia held its first official match against the Dedham Polo and Country Club. In 1890, Myopia became one of seven charter members of the Polo Association, now the United States Polo Association. Of those seven original clubs, only Myopia and Meadowbrook on Long Island still exist. Myopia is the only one that still uses its original field.
Myopia also owns one of the oldest continually running polo fields in the nation. Gibney Field, formerly used as a pasture, was mowed and used for practice in the summer of 1888. That fall, Myopia held its first official match against the Dedham Polo and Country Club. In 1890, Myopia became one of seven charter members of the Polo Association, now the United States Polo Association. Of those seven original clubs, only Myopia and Meadowbrook on Long Island still exist. Myopia is the only one that still uses its original field.